President Hajduk, Ivan Bilićat the press conference on Wednesday confirmed that Hajduk alreadyć has a ready solution for the position of sports director, and only a day later the new director was officially presented. In another late announcement, Hajduk announced that he was the successor of the dismissed one Nicholas Kalinića became François Vitali.
Vitali was born on January 19, 1976 in France, and has more than 20 years of experience in football, working in various sports positions in French Lille, Belgian clubs Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz and Cercle Brugge, and French Troyes. .
“My way in football management Vitali he started in 2003 in Lille and remained in their system until 2017. He started as the scout leader of the academy, then soon became the scout leader of the first team and all the way to project manager and sports director of the club. In that period, Lille played six times in the Champions League, three times in the Europa League and won the championship and the French Cup once. In that period, Lille was recognizable for the players that emerged in their own academy,” the Split club announced.
For four years, he led the sports segment of the Belgian Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz, which was founded only in 2010 and is owned by Lille. With Vitali at the helm, the club progressed from the third to the first Belgian league. He continued his further career in the position of sports director, development club AS Monaco, and worked at that club for two and a half seasons in the period from 2017 to 2019.
Three years later, he became a consultant to the City football group and took over as sports director and manager of the Academy Troyesa development club for young players Manchester City.
The Frenchman has so far spent most of his career in development clubs, and Hajduk boasted that one of Vitali’s greatest successes was that he recognized Eden random one of the best Belgian games in history.
Hajduk decided to introduce the new sports director less than 24 hours before the biggest Croatian derby with Dynamo which will be played tomorrow at 20:00 at Maksimir.