Nasser Larguet ( ar, ناصر لارغيت, born 6 November 1958) is a Moroccan

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, former head of the academy for

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. He was briefly the interim coach of the Marseille senior team.

Managerial career

Larguet was born in Morocco, and played football recreationally as a teenager. He moved to France to continue his studies in

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at the

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, but was a part-time amateur footballer with ASPTT Caen, Normande, and Thury-Harcourt. At Thury-Harcourt, Larguet was appointed player coach, where he began his managerial career. Larguet eventually became the

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for various clubs in France, including

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, and also had a stint as manager of the reserves of

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from 2003 to 2004. From 2008 to 2014, he was appointed director of the

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. He was a technical director for the Morocco national team from 2014 to 2019. In 28 June 2019, he was hired as the head of the academy of

. In February 2021, he was appointed interim manager of Marseille after

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handed in his resignation. Larguet was succeeded in his role by

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. On 25 April 2022, Marseille and Larguet parted ways after the club announced the departure of its current director of academy "for personal reasons", taking effect the following week on 2 May 2022.

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