Jean-Louis Gasset, OM coach, announces his retirement

Arriving on the bench of Olympique de Marseille in February, Jean-Louis Gasset decided to end his coaching career at the end of the season.

“Sunday is the last match of my career.” At a press conference on Friday May 17, Jean-Louis Gasset made this surprise announcement, two days before the last day of the championship, which will see OM face Le Havre. The Olympian coach, aged 70, will have led a team more than 300 times as head coach, having been Laurent Blanc’s assistant for a long time in Bordeaux, in the French team and on the PSG bench.

“That I stay in football, that people use my experience, my ideas and my networks is a possibility. I don’t know how to garden, I won’t have anything to do. But as a coach, it’s over. My decision is definitive. It’s a pleasure for me to have coached OM. I had moments at the Vélodrome where I had goosebumps. I want to win this last match to leave in peace.declared Jean-Louis Gasset at a press conference.

The coach had a difficult last year of his career, since he did not remain the Ivory Coast coach until the end of the last African Cup of Nations, won by the Elephants. If the Ivorian federation had announced that he had been dismissed from his position after the group stage, Jean-Louis Gasset later claimed that he had resigned from his post.

Arriving immediately on the OM bench in February, to succeed Gennaro Gattuso, he did not succeed in rectifying the situation, since the Phocéens, barring a big surprise on Sunday, should not qualify for a European Cup. Europe.