José Añigo is a mountain learned from snow

Looking at the path of Olympique de Marseille in the twenty-first century, it seems that it is still stuck in the previous century, that the development that captivated football in general, and football in France in particular, did not touch, did not change pride, malaise. Marseille and Marseille.

One championship, in 2010. Three cup finals (all lost), as many League Cup wins and two more Europa League finals (also losing).

For other places and for others, an account capable of feeding generations. For the Marseilles, this account of (almost) our quarter of a century, is not even a ground for admission.

Of these, barely nine milestones counted – although the podium only sees victory as such – Jose Anigo was absent from the Olympic organizational chart only from the last time, the 2018 European League final. In all the rest he was there. As a manager, just once, in the 2004 UEFA Cup Final.

He served the club for 26 years in various capacities. He was born in the Marche, the son of Spanish immigrants who, hunted down by the Franco regime, found – literally – a port in Marseille. Bad lies, someone else who could fit better with the private, so detached in France (and not only that), it would be difficult to find the social and political environment of the club, than one of its people.

In Marseille, be it street, day, night or night The Olympic Games or something related to the venue, it is more effective, no problems It turns out that they are run by the locals, without having or hiding the slightest chauvinistic background. on the contrary.

Drogba, Barthez, Deschamps, the rise, the drama and the exile

He started as a soccer player from Fokai’s nursery divisions in the mid-1970s. difficult years. Test them right away, even on the first His professional year, the Olympics (1980), was relegated, and he faced worse, including the specter of dissolution.

Yet a group of children were the only (other) ones left, accepting all adversity then, and he was the one who hauled the club out of the ashes, returned it to the living rooms four years later and won—you—acknowledgment, acceptance, and gratitude.

For Sampeunas, the lies – as he himself admits – weren’t bad. And so, the dynamic, she didn’t have anything else to show as a footballer, the centre-back didn’t play much and didn’t last long after being promoted to Velodrome

He started his coaching career domestically when he hung up his boots, but soon met his fate, joining the coaching staff at Fokai.

He had plenty of connections, quickly establishing himself despite being initially in charge of the academies, and getting his first four starts off the bench at the start of the 2001-02 season.

He returned for good after the sacking of Alain Perrin in January 2004. Then (according to him, the greatest ever in the dressing room) Didier Drogba furious and dismissed Liverpool, Inter and Newcastle, He led Olímpico to the (then) UEFA Cup Final, losing to Valencia.

He is still thinking about the dismissal of Fabien Barthez and the penalty with which he topped the “bat”. He remained on the bench for the following season as well, but going into November, he resigned.

However, he did not leave, which shows how steadfast he is within the club. So much so that he became the sporting director of OM, a position he considers the most ideal and a term he considers the most successful in football. his career.

He brought Franck Ribéry, Mamadou Niang, Mathieu Valbuena, Steve Mandada and Mamadou Samassa to Marseille (while as coach he proposed the addition of Sampré Lamoche), with Olympique winning their last league title in 2010 and after their three consecutive league victories. League Cup.

But the aura, the club’s usually stifling and unbearable environment, works with Marseille’s rules strange and only. So after the last conquest (2012), Anigo “breaks” things with Didier Deschamps, the current selector for France, and although the sporting director has become the focus of investigations for misuse of resources, but also for blackmail by an old teammate, a member local mafia.

When needed, in December 2013, he returned to the bench to support the departure of Eli Beau, and announced just in time that the imminent arrival of Marcelo Bielsa, in the summer of 2014, would also end his tenure. Sports manager.

His daily life became unbearable. His personal tragedy played a catalytic role since on September 13 his son, Adrian (one of the six children he had from their marriage) was executed in his car, in an act of criminal interest deemed to settle scores.

The city, now, did not raise him, nor the daily life of the Olympians. And so, he was put in charge of the Scouting Department in Africa and went… across the street, to Casablanca, and stayed there permanently, making use of the fat maximum salary—70,000 gross per month—which he received and which, according to the terms. Leave, cause more.

At the same time, he tried for a month to return to the bench, and took charge of Esperance in Tunisia for seven matches in total, with a change of management at the Olympic and his purchase, in the fall of 2016, by the American Frank. McCourt ends his multi-layered relationship with the club after nearly three decades.

Greece, Clapp, Sun, Ionides, Nikas, Arabian, Valbuena and Olympiacos

He appeared in Greece in the summer of 17, and took technical command Levadeikos. He brought Brandao (37 years old), but also the famous CANAL + for an excursion in his life and daily life in Viotia, Walking his six dogs became a trademark of the city, he comfortably saved the ‘greens’, dripping honey for Petros Giakomakis without ever hiding His belief in the talent of two young 17-year-olds: Fotis Ioannidis and Georgos Nikas.

He tried to transfer Ioannidis to Nottingham as well, but the international striker’s agreement with Panathinaikos, in the summer of 20, “didn’t work out”.

Where is Nottingham? Although he declared that he was in love with Livadia, despite his success there, he did not renew his residence, and went down to Panionios (summer 18). His love of the sun (and sunbathing) is legendary, he just couldn’t get enough of it Square leaves after 12 matches (and a defeat in Larissa).

This was also his final training period. Fall ’19 began His connection to the wider ‘red and white’ community, since his appointment as chief scout at Nottingham Forest. He did not stay long at Old Albion, but did not stop working as a consultant and behind the scenes on various transfers, both for the “reds” on the island and for Olympiacos.

He is credited with the deals with El Arabi and Valbuena and the takeover of Agippo Kamara, formalizing his role in the Greek champions. It appeared last January when he took over as director of the Academies.

The storms of the previous summer also increased his responsibilities, as he was considered well suited to line up on the bench Mitchell, meanwhile, has taken over as manager, but he’s practically everywhere in everyday life, in … always everything in the club.

This was essentially the passport for Marquez’s return to the stalls today. Also in a very difficult and very stressful situation. You know, that’s for sure.

After so many years in a similar environment, there is no need for you to explain to anyone that in this particular case, there is nothing more permanent than Temporary, here, does not apply. This is a temporary solution, accepted by certain conditions.

If it will be for one game, the day after tomorrow against PAOK, if it will be for one game, with the Leoforos derby on Sunday to follow, if it is maintained in all matches, time and results will show.