Marcelo Gallardo, without directing since he left River in December last year, is one of the candidates to take charge of Olympique de Marseilleas revealed this Friday by the French press.
Gallardo, 47, is the candidate to succeed the Croatian Igor Tudor at Olympique de Marseille, one of the most important clubs in the French Ligue 1, because “he likes his offensive style and the successes he achieved in River”, he published L’Equipe.
The current DT of Olympique de Marseille took charge of the team in July last year, replacing the Argentine Jorge Sampaoli, but he did not achieve the goal of winning Ligue 1, which once again remained in the hands of Lionel Messi’s PSG.
Gallardo is the main option and then the Spanish Marcelino and the Italians Raffaele Palladino and Vincenzo Italiano appear on a list.
In The French club plays the Argentine defender Leonardo Balerdi, emerged from Boca Juniors and recently summoned to the Argentine national team by Lionel Scaloni for the two matches of the FIFA date of this month, and also Chilean striker Alexis Sánchez.