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Marseille appoint former captain Beye as new head coach
Habib Beye returns to Marseille to lead with a disciplinarian style and attacking focus, aiming to improve results after Champions League exit and recent league setbacks.
- Olympique de Marseille have appointed their former captain Habib Beye as head coach a little over a week after he was sacked by Rennes following poor results.
- Beye, 48, played for Marseille between 2003 and 2007 and his first game in charge will be against Brest on Friday with the club fourth in Ligue 1, 12 points behind leaders Lens.
- Marseille parted ways with former coach Roberto De Zerbi a week ago after a 5-0 loss to Paris St Germain and an exit from the Champions League.
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Familiar face returns to Marseille where Habib Beye takes charge amid a title slide
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Habib Beye appointed coach of Marseille
Marseille have appointed their former captain Habib Beye as coach, the club announced on Wednesday, just over a week after he was sacked by their Ligue 1 rivals Rennes. Beye, 48, succeeds Roberto De Zerbi after the Italian left the 1993 Champions League winners early last week in the wake of a 5-0 hammering by bitter rivals Paris Saint-Germain. He takes over a team which lies fourth in France's Ligue 1 with 12 games of the season remaining, five…
The Marseille Olympian announced on Wednesday the appointment of the former Rennes coach and former captain of the Marseille club, replacing Roberto De Zerbi.
Forty-eight-year-old Senegalese football expert Habib Beye is the new coach of Marseille. The team, currently fourth in the French championship, was previously led by Italian Roberto De Zerbi, who was fired a week ago after a heavy defeat in the French championship by 0:5 against PSG and due to poor results in the Champions League.
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