The Rosario coach won a lawsuit against the French club, who coached only a few games during 2017, and will now collect a million-dollar compensation.
Marcelo Bielsa will have a conflictive exit from Lille.
Marcelo Bielsacurrent technical director of the national soccer team Uruguaywill be compensated with Two millions of euros by the French club Lille for having fired him in 2017as determined today by an appeals court in the city of Douai.
Bielsawho only coached the “Galic” team in 13 games, will receive the sum due to a “parachute clause” that protected him if he was fired, as certified Benjamin Cabagnocoach’s lawyer and Bertrand Wambekeadvisor of the French first division club.
In the first instance, in July 2021the labor court of Lille He had rejected all the demands of the 68-year-old Argentine coach, fired when the team was in penultimate position.
Bielsa arrived at Lille At the beginning of 2017 and the court considered that the pre-contract signed between the club and the coach on February 14, 2017 was valid and included a “parachute” clause that stipulated that, “If the club decided for any reason to dismiss the coach from his duties,” it had to “compensate him by paying all the indicated amounts.”
The court of appeal reduced the amount of this clause downwards, evaluating the prejudices suffered by Bielsa in Two millions of eurosa sum “disappointing” for Cabagno.
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