After failing to become the new sports director of Olympique de Marseille, Fabrizio Ravanelli still hopes to find a position within the organization chart of a French club.
The Italian necessarily favors OM but does not exclude other French formations, as he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
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He almost became the new "football head" of Olympique de Marseille, a sort of sports director with extended powers between coach André Villas-Boas and President Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
Fabrizio Ravanelli, former scorer for the Marseille club at the end of the 1990s, was however overtaken by the Spaniard Pablo Longoria.
At the microphone of Europe 1, Sunday evening, the Italian tells the behind the scenes of this failure and above all expresses his desire to find France with a new challenge, at OM or elsewhere.
Failed by OM
"My agent, Yvan Le Mée, had a meeting with the president and he spoke about me as sporting director", relates the OM striker with 30 goals scored between 1997 and 1999. "It went well and he has nominated me. Afterwards, the president made another choice and we must accept it. "
The 51-year-old Italian, however, regrets a choice made for more "political" than "technical" reasons.
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After this refusal from the leaders of his "heart" club, Fabrizio Ravanelli still aspires to find OM, one day or another.
"I still dream of one day returning to OM to bring my experience, my character and my ambition to football," he told Lionel Rosso and Jean-François Pérès.
"I hope that one day that moment will come."
"France is my home"
But the former striker does not avoid an arrival in another club, he who briefly coached AC Ajaccio from June to November 2013. "I hope one day to return to France and have the opportunity to show my professionalism and my knowledge of football ", argues the former of Juventus Turin.
"I love France and France, it's my home. I would of course like to go back to France."