Following Marcelino Garcia Toral’s resignation last week, Marseille has appointed Gennaro Gattuso as their new head coach.<\/p>\n
Gattuso, a 45-year-old Italian, expressed his excitement, stating, “I am thrilled to join Marseille\u2014a club and stadium, the Velodrome, where I had the chance to play and which is renowned across Europe for its passionate supporters.”<\/span><\/p>\n Gattuso brings experience from his previous managerial roles at AC Milan and Napoli, though he has been without a club since leaving Valencia earlier this year. <\/span><\/p>\n The former Italian World Cup winner had also been linked to Lyon, one of Marseille’s French rivals.<\/span><\/p>\n Marseille faced turmoil when Marcelino abruptly resigned after just seven competitive games in charge. <\/span><\/p>\n The situation escalated during a heated meeting between fan representatives and the club’s leadership, where threats and demands for resignations were made. <\/span><\/p>\n Club president Pablo Longoria initially considered leaving but ultimately decided to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n Currently, Marseille sits in eighth place in Ligue 1, having suffered a 4-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain. <\/span><\/p>\n They are also participating in this season’s Europa League and are set to host Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion in the upcoming match.<\/span><\/p>\n Gattuso’s inaugural match as coach will be against Monaco this Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following Marcelino Garcia Toral’s resignation last week, Marseille has appointed Gennaro Gattuso as their new head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5120,7680,4294],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-gennaro-gattuso","tag-head-coach","tag-marseille"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15622,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions\/15622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}