On a relaxing day for the Olympique de Marseille players, they were interviewed by a television channel in France and spoke openly about their current technical director, the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli. The relationship between the players and the coach has reached a very good point, though William Saliba, pape gueye, Amine Harit Y Dimitri Payet They couldn’t avoid being realistic about DT’s athletic skills.

The Argentine coach took over in March 2021 when a very bad moment for the team and it changed the dynamic. This season he is second in Ligue 1, as the closest chase to leader Paris Saint Germain.

The truth is that Harit admitted to Santa Fe “He’s too much of a sports cheater! You shouldn’t play tennis with him. He sucks and he’s cheating.”.

The image of coaching players with sporting activities does not seem to be good, as Pape Gueye added: “He’s the worst coach I’ve ever had. Even on small passes … he knows football but how hard he plays”.

They certainly didn’t know that Sampaoli an injury shattered his dream of becoming a professional footballer. When he was 19 years old, his left hand suffered a tibia and fibula fracture from which he could not recover, so he started working as a coach, because of his passion for football.

Sampaoli did not leave a positive image during his time with the Argentine National Team about his relationship with the players during the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In Marseille, the players treated him as a man already “He doesn’t want to lose, but it’s fun”.

Continuing the story, defense attorney William Saliba said so “When it comes time to train he is serious, but when he finishes training he likes to joke. He jokes with everyone. On the human side, he is a very good coach too”.

The Olympique technical director has a French club record of 57 games between the two seasons, which he earned 31 wins, 16 draws and 10 losses.

This season, he still has a mathematical chance to stay in the French League and he also wants to make it to the semi-finals of Conference Leagueif he defends the 2-1 win against Paok of Greece.