Nasser Larguet led OM for the first time in his career -

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  • At 62, Nasser Larguet led his first match on Wednesday at the head of a Ligue 1 team.

  • The director of the training center has acted on the bench of an OM who is looking for a new coach after the dismissal of André Villas-Boas.

With his look as a physics and chemistry teacher, Nasser Larguet does not give in the bling bing dear to many football coaches.

Logical for someone who studied microbiology and pharmacy at the University of Caen.

However, the one who is usually director of the OM training center does not have to be ashamed of his first steps as a coach of a Ligue 1 team.

Tuesday morning, the technician did not expect such a fate.

But the dismissal of Villas-Boas after the announcement of his resignation in the middle of a press conference precipitated things.

“I was warned Tuesday night.

It's a duty for me.

If there had been someone else, I would have stayed in my office at the training center.

But I was asked to accompany the team and manage this match.

It was a pleasure for me and a duty for the club ”.

A career at the head of training centers

Aged 62, this shadow technician would never have imagined finding himself one day on a Ligue 1 bench. So far his only match on a bench as main coach dates back to 2004 to lead a team match. Le Havre reserve.

Since then, Larguet had mainly become known for his skills as a trainer.

Director of the training centers in Rouen, Cannes, Caen or Strasbourg, DTN of Morocco for five years, he landed in 2019 at OM to ... manage the training center.

In his sixties, he would never have thought of leading OM one day.

“I am an employee of the club.

It's a source of pride because it's OM.

This is not just any club because there are high expectations ”, recognizes this coach for a day.

But the crazy context in which the Olympian club lives allows all miracles.

And this is how Larguet found himself among the OM players a few hours before entering Bollaert's lawn.

“We have boys who were marked by the events of the last few days.

You saw what happened on Saturday (invasion of the Commandery) then the resignation of the coach.

It is something that marks.

I was marked like them.

Mentally, they were in difficulty but we put at the heart of the subject the collective, commitment, generosity.

This is what we saw in Lens ”, satisfied Larguet.

Not sure to be on the bench on Sunday against PSG

And it is true that on the lawn, OM showed some qualities.

Thanks to Thauvin and Milik, Marseille even led by two goals at the break before being joined by a much more biting Lens in the second period.

What to navigate between frustration and satisfaction.

“When you lead 2-0 at half-time, you can have regrets.

But I am very proud of the players who have met our expectations.

But take a point in the current context, we must congratulate the players, “assures a technician who does not necessarily consider still being on the bench Sunday for the classico against PSG;

"The rest is Nasser Larguet, the director of the training center of the Olympique de Marseille".

Who nevertheless experienced a crazy thing Wednesday night in Bollaert.

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