Eight years and three foreign coaches after Laurent Blanc, Christophe Galtier should be inducted Tuesday to lead Paris Saint-Germain. A little surprise for the 55 -year -old Marseillais, who took the time to progress and change his image.
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This is one of his qualities: Christophe Galtier always adapts. His heart too. “Some people do not manage to understand it, but I support all the clubs in which I have gone,” he said to the world in December 2018. At 55, the Marseillais will therefore learn to love Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG), of which he will officially become the coach for two seasons, confirmed the agency France-Presse of source knowing the file. The one who was coach of the OGC Nice last season must be inducted Tuesday by PSG, who summoned a press conference at 2 p.m. at the Parc des Princes. On Monday, he was seen in the administrative premises of the Paris club in the evening according to videos posted on social networks.
Christophe Galtier succeeds Argentinian Mauricio Pocsettino and arrives at a position which seemed promised to another Marseillais: Zinedine Zidane. Would the child of the pebbles be a default choice compared to that of the Castellane? At PSG, the appointment of the coach has often been the fact of the prince (or rather of the emir) since the acquisition of the club by Qatar Sport Investments, in 2011. Christophe Galtier appears as the candidate of Luis Campos.
Hidden under the title of “Football Advisor”, the Portuguese is, in fact, the sports director of PSG and the new architect of his sports policy. The two men have fed a relationship of trust since their visit to Lille. In the North, they had achieved a small feat: in 2021, the LOSC deprived PSG of the title of champion of France with a team built by Campos and transcended by Galtier.
The Pragmatism School at the French
The former Rugueux defender (past by Marseille, Lille or Toulouse) has become a respected and requested coach. A small revenge for the one who dragged a reputation from the front in his beginnings, that “the” said “affair of the Vélodrome tunnel” had not attenuated: on April 7, 2000, the one who was then the assistant coach From Olympique de Marseille struck the Monegasque player Marcelo Gallardo during a scuffle, then received six months of suspension. From himself, he had returned to this episode for Le Monde in order to repeat his innocence – “I was found guilty. Without proof, just based on a testimony” – and confide in what extent he had to Work on itself to erase this image.
Today, man offers less criticism. He built his career at his own pace and with relative humility. In Saint-Etienne, he had satisfied himself to be in the shadow of Alain Perrin before cornocating the Greens for eight years (2009-2017). He then built the team, giving his opinion on everything and winning a League Cup in 2013, the first title since 1981 for the club.
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