Jorge Sampaoli officially took office as OM coach on Monday -
DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP
The Sampaoli era has indeed started.
This Monday, the Argentine coach officially took up his duties as coach at OM, after several days of isolation imposed to rule out any risk of Covid-19 contamination.
The Argentinian must meet the Marseille players in the afternoon subject to a negative PCR test, it was specified within the club.
No details on the content of the "meeting" between the new coach and his players was given by the club, which must face Rennes on Wednesday for a late Ligue 1 match at the Vélodrome at 19 hours.
In the aftermath of the Canet disaster
After a month of February plagued by a succession of crises (invasion of the Commandery, dismissal of André Villas-Boas, change of president, express visit of the owner Frank McCourt), the first contact between the Marseillais and their new coach comes in a context still darkened by the pitiful elimination suffered Sunday in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France against Canet-en-Roussillon (National 2, fourth division).
For the last meeting of interim Nasser Larguet on the bench, the Olympians fell very low and let slip a competition that could have offered them a European qualification at the end of the season, suggesting to the explosive Sampaoli the magnitude of the task ahead.
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