OM: Bielsa will miss the recovery – TF1

By Stéphane Renaux | Written for TF1 | 2015-06-20T17: 08: 36.151Z , updated 2015-06-20T17: 10: 20.137Z

Marcelo Bielsa will miss the training center next Monday, when the recovery of the club. The coach of Olympique Marseille will not return until the beginning of July.

For the second year, OM will be the first Ligue 1 side to return to the path of the drive.

Bielsa holidays

While the majority of Ligue 1 clubs will resume training in a week, Olympique Marseille decided to schedule the date Resume Monday, June 22 . This is what the club management announced Saturday. Nevertheless, this comeback will be with sixteen players, but the Argentine technician. “ Marcelo Bielsa, who pushed his vacation to June 16 to work with the club’s management on the recruitment and preparation of pre-season, will return to Marseille at the beginning of July “, is it said in a statement.

surprising decision

This choice might surprise since one is nicknamed” El Loco “has not extended his contract with Olympique de Marseille. At a time when the senior players left ( Morel in Lyon, Ayew and Gignac Swansea Tigers Mexico ) and that others may follow ( Imbula especially ) , the club Phocaean advance seems uncertain at the start of next season, where only Kévin Georges-Nkoudou (Nantes) and Yohann Pelé (Sochaux) arrived .

Busy schedule

The last fourth of the championship will begin in the first days of sessions of individualized physical and medical tests under the supervision of fitness coach Jan van Winckel and the head of the cell Medical Christophe Baudot. Then, OM will fly to Spain from Thursday June 25 to Wednesday, July 1 for a course led by assistant Marcelo Bielsa, Franck Passi and Pablo Quiroga. Note that the first friendly confrontation will take place on Saturday 18 July in Tunisia at Olympic Stadium in Sousse against Etoile du Sahel .