Present at a press conference this Friday before Rennes-OM, Roberto De Zerbi took the opportunity to welcome the appointment of Medhi Benatia as director of Football. The Marseille coach praised at length his way of working with him in Marseille.
Roberto De Zerbi is satisfied. The Olympique de Marseille coach warmly welcomed the appointment of Medhi Benatia to the post of football director on Friday, during the press conference before Rennes-OM. The Italian praised at length the qualities of the man who was until now sports advisor to President Pablo Longoria.
“I am very happy. He was decisive for me to come to Marseille, him and Pablo. He is decisive every day. I work with him, when you tell him something he thinks quickly, he is already three or four days old in advance”, congratulates Roberto De Zerbi, asked about his way of working with the man who therefore becomes his superior.
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-“I prefer direct people”
“Sometimes it’s the coaches who have to push a little but with him that’s not the case, it’s something that I like. He pushes with his character, he’s ambitious, he understands a lot of things about football and it is transparent”, then continues the Italian technician from OM. “I prefer transparent, true, direct people rather than those who take detours to say things. And there are a lot of them in football.”
In a press release published this Wednesday, OM formalized his appointment to the position of director of football.
A logical and expected development for the former captain of the Moroccan selection (37 years old): “Fully involved with the president in the launch of the ambitious long-term sporting project and in the transfer window carried out last summer, Medhi Benatia is thus appointed Director of Football of the club.”
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