Who is Christophe Galtier, the coach who replaces Pochettino at PSG?

Who is Christophe Galtier, the coach who replaces Pochettino at PSG?

A little earlier, the Parisian squad announced the goodbye of the Santa Fe Pochettinowho spent 18 months on the bench and who still had a year left on his contract.

“Paris Saint-Germain confirms that Mauricio Pochettino has ended his role at the club”previously said the PSG it’s a statement.

Galtier His talent for leading a heterogeneous group was rewarded, taking advantage of his experience as a player and coach in different parts of his country, which has earned him prestige in recent years.

Notably champion of the French league was proclaimed with the Lille in the 2020/21 seasonabove the PSG. Added to that was being a finalist for French Cup in 2022, with the also modest Nicein his first and only season on the Côte d’Azur.

Now the challenge is greater, to win the Champions League with the PSG.

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With a reputation as a great strategist and good communicator, this former defender responds to the profile of a modern technician. His adaptability has also allowed him to overcome the club’s internal shake-ups without losing his way.despite the fact that theoretically he lacked flight hours on the bench, after having trained only the Saint-Etienne before your arrival at Lille.

When he landed at the club in the north of the country in December 2017, few could have thought that he would be the coach called to return the Lille At the top. So the mission was permanence.

His arrival was a shock. In his first full season (2018-2019), the Lille He was second in the final classification and in the following course, marked by an early end of the championship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19it was fourth.

In the 2020-2021 season, Galtier and the Lille They made the big jump. He became the third coach to be able to win the Ligue 1 in front of the almighty Paris Saint Germain and your qatari moneyafter Rene Girard with the Montpelier (2012) and Leonardo Jardim with the Monaco (2017).

With 55 years, Galtier is a well known character France although not much outside the country in which he has developed almost his entire career. As a player, he started in the Marseilles and also played for Lille, Toulouse, Angers Y Nimes.

As a player he had a final experience (1997-1998) in Italyin the Monza. As an assistant technician he cut his teeth in United Arab Emirates, Greece and Englandbefore his career as head coach, already in France.

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