Spanish coach Marcelino replaces Croatian Igor Tudor at Olympique de Marseille. The club have reached an agreement with this experienced and respected technician in the Spanish Championship, we learned on Wednesday from a source familiar with the negotiations.
Confirming initial information from RMC, this source did not give further details on the terms of this agreement, which comes less than two weeks before the resumption of training for OM on July 3. Marseille must play from August 8 or 9 a very important 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League.
With Marcelino Garcia Toral, free since June 2022 and his departure from Athletic Bilbao where he had spent 18 mixed months, OM finds itself with a Spanish trio at its head: Marcelino indeed joins the club’s president Pablo Longoria and his right arm Javier Ribalta, two compatriots.
Marcelino succeeds the Croatian Igor Tudor who will not have spent more than one season in a club sometimes nicknamed the “coach-eater”. Pablo Longoria had underlined on June 5 that he wanted a coach capable of installing “an offensive game, a little rock and roll”.
Passed by many La Liga clubs such as Sevilla, Villarreal, Valencia and Bilbao, Marcelino won the Spanish Cup in 2019 with Valencia CF. For the first time, he will train a team outside his native country.
