{"id":39233,"date":"2026-02-22T03:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/marseille-appoint-ex-newcastle-defender-habib-beye-as-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:35:16","slug":"marseille-appoint-ex-newcastle-defender-habib-beye-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/marseille-appoint-ex-newcastle-defender-habib-beye-as-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Marseille appoint ex-Newcastle defender Habib Beye as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">French club Marseille have appointed former Newcastle and Aston Villa defender Habib Beye as their new head coach, a week after his sacking from fellow Ligue 1 club Rennes. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marseille <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cgqejpj4d80o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">parted ways with Roberto De Zerbi<\/a> last week, following a a 5-0 defeat by Paris St-Germain and a group stage exit in the Champions League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beye, who spent four years at Marseille during his playing career, was sacked by Rennes last week following a four-match winless run which left them in sixth place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;His deep attachment to Olympique de Marseille and his intimate knowledge of the environment in Marseille can be major assets in taking the club to the next step,&#8221; the club said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marseille are fourth in Ligue 1, 12 points behind leaders Lens. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 48-year-old&#8217;s first match in charge will come against Brest on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Senegal international Beye left Marseille for Newcastle in 2007 and went on to make 54 appearances for the Magpies across two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defender moved to Aston Villa in 2009 and made 18 appearances for the club before finishing his playing career with Doncaster Rovers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cyv9q5ng2v8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French club Marseille have appointed former Newcastle and Aston Villa defender Habib Beye as their new head coach, a week after his sacking from fellow Ligue 1 club Rennes. Marseille parted ways with Roberto De Zerbi last week, following a a 5-0 defeat by Paris St-Germain and a group stage exit in the Champions League. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39235,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39233\/revisions\/39235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}