A short-lived OM coach, Marcelino still had scores to settle after his Marseille experience.
Seven matches managed, for a record of three wins, three draws and one defeat, it is an understatement to say that Marcelino’s Marseille adventure came to an end. On September 20, barely three months after his arrival at OM, the Spanish coach decided to throw in the towel, burned by the stormy meeting between the leaders and the supporters the day before at the Commanderie. And since then he has been interested in multiplying critical media releases.
After presenting the Marseille club as an entity in decline, ossified by its very essence – the omnipotence of its supporters – Marcelino returned to the Spanish press to settle scores with his many detractors in France. In particular the observers, columnists or journalists who, during his time on the Olympians bench, sometimes scratched him.
“Of intelligent people and others less so”
“ I didn’t even have time to realize it “, he claims in an interview with the sports daily AS before toughening his tone: “ As in life, there are intelligent people and less intelligent people. These are meant to be funny but quickly become disrespectfuldeplores the 58-year-old strategist. It’s something that can happen but I don’t really take it into account. I respect the criticism, nothing more. »
