Villas-Boas' unexpected tribute to Franck Haise

André Villas-Boas will have left an indelible mark in the history of Olympique de Marseille. From 2019 to 2021, the Portuguese was, quite successfully, the coach of the Marseille city club. But today, the former OM coach is the president of FC Porto, a Portuguese big name who is going through a fairly delicate situation at the moment. However, the latter has not forgotten his time on the Canebière. Far from it: “I only have good memories. There is the greatness of the club, all these emotions, positive or negative. This club means so much to people, it is the No. 1 club in France, without a doubt. Like it was one of the most beautiful things of my life, it was also one of the most painful to leave the way I left, to experience Covid there… The Vélodrome would transmit its strength to us. it's the Vélodrome, it's the atmosphere of the stadium. And I think that was why we were very weak in the second year. But it's true that Ntcham was a real coup that broke everything.” he declares in the columns of L’Équipe. But André Villas-Boas also declared his love for Franck Haise, a coach he admires.

“When I was there, I appreciated Franck Haise”

True recognize true. When André Villas-Boas was in charge of Olympique de Marseille, the Portuguese faced the skyrocketing rise of RC Lens and Franck Haise. Today at the head of OGC Nice, the former Sang-et-Or manager is still in the mind of the president of FC Porto: “When I was there, I liked Franck Haise. I was curious about his method, he also used individual marking. And I like his speech or what he said about the violence around football, Recently, training in France is hard, but it's interesting because from one match to the next everything is different, the teams offer things that are not the same. disgusted that we leave an image like that with OM in the Champions League.” A nice tribute from the former coach of the Marseille club.

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