No Ligue 1 team has had more coaches than OM in the 21st century.
With three years atOlympic Marseille, Didier Deschamps is the longest-serving coach at the head of the Marseille club in the 21st century. And it’s not Marcelino who should be able to challenge him for this record. After barely three months on the bench of the Riviera club, the Spanish technician announced his resignation to his players this Tuesday.
21 – Different coaches in Ligue 1 in the 21st century:
🥇 – Marseille (21)
🥈 – Nantes (20)
🥉 – Bordeaux and Monaco (16)Catchphrase. pic.twitter.com/BoIlXJ10tX
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After Marcelo Bielsa (one year), Michel (eight months), André Villas-Boas (one year and seven months), Jorge Sampaoli (one year and three months) and Igor Tudor (less than a year), here is another coach from Marseille who leaves the ship in a hurry. But this phenomenon is not recent in Marseille. Proof of OM’s instability, Marcelino was the club’s 21st coach in the 21st century, more than any other team in Ligue 1 over this period. If he is on the bench against Ajax on Thursday, Jean-Pierre Papin will become the 22nd…
