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During their trip to Rennes this Saturday evening, OM will reunite with a coach they knew well, Jorge Sampaoli, who left the club at the end of June 2022. A very emotional moment, as confided Pablo Longoria, but the Marseille president will wait until the end of the meeting before kissing his former coach.
« For me, Marseille is an old love, a place where I was loved very much, which I loved very much. » Returned to Ligue 1 at the end of November, where he took over from Julien Stéphan has Rennes, Jorge Sampaoli will find theABOUT this Saturday evening. The Argentinian technician left very good memories of his time in Marseille, to whom he does not intend to give any gifts, as he confided at a press conference: “ Afterwards, he is my opponent and we will do everything to win – even if OM is one of the best teams in the Championship, a team which has organized itself very well since the start of the season and which has ambitions. »
“Out of respect for the president, I opted for a step aside”
Jorge Sampaoli will have stayed almost a year and a half at theABOUTbefore leaving the club to everyone’s surprise in June 2022. “ What if I regret my choice to leave? It’s too late to have regrets. I had chosen to leave because the club had made certain contractual decisions with which I did not necessarily agree, and out of respect for the president, I had opted for a step aside “, explained the 64-year-old Argentinian technician.
“It will be a moving moment for me”
Pablo Longoria doesn’t hold it against him and can’t wait to find Jorge Sampaoli. « It will be a moving moment for me, like last March when I met Dani Parejo during Villarreal’s reception at the Vélodrome, Dani who was my captain when I worked at Valencia (2018-2019) “, declared the president of theABOUTin comments reported by The Team. Pablo Longoria will, however, wait until the end of the match to find his former coach: “ I won’t see Jorge before kick-off, because we have to respect the match, but afterwards, when the tension has subsided, I’ll give him a big hug and we’ll talk. »
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