Marseille coach to step down
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Rudi Garcia will step down as Marseille coach following this weekend’s final round of Ligue 1 matches after the French giant failed to qualify for European football next season.
“I’ve decided to leave. I put forth this solution to my president who accepted it,” Garcia said at a press conference yesterday, sitting alongside Marseille chief Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
The 55-year-old Garcia was appointed coach in October 2016 with the mandate of leading Marseille back into the UEFA Champions League, shortly after the club’s takeover by American tycoon Frank McCourt.
He extended his deal last October until 2021, but Garcia will leave the Velodrome with two years remaining on his contract after missing out on a top-three finish.
Marseille lies sixth, 11 points adrift of the UCL places, going into tomorrow’s final game of the season against fifth-placed Montpellier.
“Rudi is a great coach and a man of great quality,” said Eyraud, who dismissed reports of an eight-figure payout for Garcia and his assistants.
Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has pledged his future to the Liga club despite an expected exodus of senior players from the Estadio Metropolitano in the close season.
Argentine Simeone, 49, has said he will oversee the changing of the guard as he looks to rebuild the 2014 La Liga winner, which came second this term behind runaway champion Barcelona.
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