By Sasha Beckermann
September 1990-January 1991: Franz Beckenbauer, the disappointment
The story was short, rather intense but above all complicated.
Bernard Tapie dreamed for a few years of recruiting the German to take his team to a new level and score a big blow on the European scene.
Beckenbauer - crowned with a world champion title with the Mannschaft - landed on the Canebière… and disillusioned, quickly complaining "of infrastructure unworthy of a great European club".
With 21 pro players, including four goalkeepers (!) And an omnipresent president, the Kaiser struggles to make himself understood and has a series of poor results.
Three short months on the bench and then leave.
January 1991-1993 (cut between July and October 1991): Raymond Goethals, the star on the jersey
If Olympique de Marseille prides itself on being the only club in France to have a star embroidered on the heart, it is is well thanks to him.
Bernard Tapie brings in the Belgian Sorcerer after the Beckenbauer failure.
But before 1993, Goethals had already managed to seduce the Phocaeans: a Champions Clubs Cup final in 1991 against the Red Star in Belgrade, two French championships (1991 and 1992), the Belgian remains an icon in Marseille.
Outside the green rectangle, Goethals was also a tactical genius, a sense of formula, a Belga in the beak and an ability to scratch the name of his players quite exceptional.
Tomislav IvicPanoramic
July 1991-October 1991 then 2001: Tomislav Ivic, too defensive
The Croatian did not leave an unforgettable memory on the Canebière.
He arrived in 1991, after having visited PSG in particular: “Ivić, for me, is the world number 1 in training.
No one knows better than him how to get the most out of his men, ”Tapie said at the time.
His partnership with Goethals, then officially in the sports management, only lasted four months.
It pays the price for the omnipresence of its president, and a game deemed too defensive.
However, he was recalled in the spring of 1993 to analyze tactically… AC Milan.
He plunges one last time with OM in 2001, the club finished 9th.
September 2007-2009: Eric Gerets, the offensive player
Even if he did not win a trophy with OM (3rd in the championship in 2008, 2nd in 2009), Eric Gerets keeps a special place in the hearts of the Phocéens, and vice versa.
A fiery attack, a tactic firmly in place - always focused on the offensive -, helped by a five-star workforce, the "Lion of Rekem" has indeed left its mark on this OM from 2007 to 2009. "C ' is football that I love.
A spectacular and effective game, rather than a chilly game, ”confided at the time the late Pape Diouf on his team.
Gerets left such a mark on the club that rumors of a return have long surfaced.
June 2014 - August 2015: Marcelo Bielsa, El Loco
His game, his press conferences, his analyzes, his cooler, his obsessions, it is an alien who landed at OM in June 2014. The volcanic Marcelo Bielsa has deeply marked the club and its supporters, despite an unsuccessful season (4th in the championship).
Quick recovery of the ball, intense pressing, forward projection ... Even if his sporting record is mixed, El Loco quickly put the Vélodrome in his pocket, both by his personality and by the game offered by his team.
The story ended badly.
From the first day of the championship, after a defeat against Caen (0-1), he announced his resignation, due to disagreements with Vincent Labrune.
Loco.
August 2015 - April 2016: Michel, complete fiasco
Michel landed on the Canebière in August 2015 with the heavy task of succeeding Marcelo Bielsa, and extinguishing the fire that was smoldering in Marseille.
Laid off in April 2016 by Vincent Labrune for his behavior, Michel turned the flash in the pan into a furnace.
The Spanish coach paid for the club's catastrophic results: seven months without a win at home, 15th place in the championship with only six points ahead of the relegation zone.
The divorce with the management and the supporters is over.
May 2019 - February 2021: André Villas-Boas, Saudade
Once is not customary at OM, the Portuguese left with losses and noise from the club, citing a disagreement with the management on the recruitment of Olivier Ntcham.
The eighteen months of AVB at the head of the Marseille team are half-fig, half-grape.
Villas-Boas managed to convince last season thanks to a second place and an interesting level of play.
The impression of a real emulation with the team and the supporters is there, it is even his squad that convinces him to stay at OM.
This half of the season was more complicated: misunderstood choice of game, disappointing results, catastrophic European campaign, open war with its president ...
The portrait of Villas-Boas painted by an artist in the streets of Marseille
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