Jean-Louis Gasset: Mentality, Mind, and Football Performance – Exclusive Press Conference Highlights

2024-02-20 16:56:00

After Marcelino, Jacques Abardonado and Gennaro Gattuso, this season. This Tuesday, two days before the C3 Marseille-Shakhtar Donetsk return play-off, the 70-year-old technician was presented to the press and wanted to remove all doubts concerning his age. “Speaking of the big guys, we asked ourselves the question regarding Wenger, Ferguson or Goethals. Everyone wanted to extend them,” he initially declared.

I don’t feel like I’m 70 years old in my head

“Age is in the head. Precisely, I don’t feel that I am 70 years old in the head,” he added. “It’s the mind that’s the important thing, I won’t take a mental trainer because I’m the mental trainer.” Considering the last matches of 2024 for OM, which has had five draws and two defeats since January 7, its new coach estimated that mentality had a link with “80% of performance”.

“I said that everyone had to do a little bit more,” noted the ex-Saint-Etienne coach. “Let everyone look at themselves in the mirror. When you concede goals like the ones Marseille concede, they are individual errors and the system is not the cause. It’s a mental problem when you concede goals following the 90th minute.”

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The OM management requested it on Sunday at 11:30 p.m.

On a personal level, Jean-Louis Gasset, contacted “Sunday at 11:30 p.m.”, confides that this challenge is “one of the most beautiful to take on” in his career. Finally, the former coach of Côte d’Ivoire also returned to his personal failure during CAN 2024. After a very complicated group stage, he was replaced by his ex-deputy Emerse Faé… and future winner of the competition.

“We started with a victory then we had a gap of five days. We lost a match 4-0 ( once morest Equatorial Guinea), it was a humiliation. I told my president that it was not not possible. I knew that I had injured players and I thought that resigning was the best solution. The sequel proved me right… I have a taste of unfinished business but I took the decision good decision. I think the job was well done before,” he concluded.

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