PSG formalized this Saturday the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as coach.
After Antoine Kombouaré, Carlo Ancelotti, Laurent Blanc, Unai Emery and Thomas Tuchel, it's time for Mauricio Pochettino.
As it was announced at the end of last week, the 48-year-old Argentine technician is the new coach of Paris Saint-Germain, the sixth since the start of the Qatari era in 2011. The former coach of Espanyol Barcelona, Southampton and Tottenham, are back in the French capital 17 years after his departure.
Pochettino indeed wore the colors of PSG as a player between January 2001 and summer 2003 (95 matches, 6 goals).
At the time, it was Luis Fernandez who had gone to look for him at Espanyol.
And he had again appealed to the former Argentine international (22 sel., 2 goals) when he himself took control of the Catalan club, in January 2004. “I really like the man and I admire him. of his coaching career, ”Fernandez indicated in recent days, for
France Football
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- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) January 2, 2021
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Demanding on and off the pitch, a follower of the beautiful game and aiming at both results and emotion, Pochettino has a certain admiration for the man who drew him to Newell's Old Boys at 13 and who was his coach at three times, Marcelo Bielsa, without however copying the one nicknamed "El Loco".
His colorful style and his "feeling of authentic belonging" to the club, according to Juan Pablo Sorin, should act as so many assets to seduce the supporters ... when they can return to the stadium.
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In Paris, he will try to meet the most arduous challenge of his coaching career, with many projects awaiting him at the Parc des Princes.
Free since November 2019 and his ouster from Tottenham, he has been announced everywhere, in the biggest European clubs.
And it is finally at PSG, his "dream" he said in 2016, that he will resume service.
Resumption of training on January 3 and first match on the 6, in Saint-Etienne, as part of a French Ligue 1 championship in which the vice-champions of Europe occupy third place in the standings, at one point from Lyon and Lille.
A first title to be played from January 13, in Lens, against OM: the Champions Trophy.
This will perhaps be the first row in Mauricio Pochettino's still virgin record as a coach.
But his first big challenge will be on February 16 and March 10 against Barça.
However, we know that the justice of the peace at PSG is the Champions League.
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