Julien Stéphan was ousted on Monday, while the Alsatians are the penultimate of the championship. Several sources also state the departure of Lucien Favre from the Riviera formation.
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The cleaver fell for Julien Stéphan. RC Strasbourg coach was “laid off as a conservatory,” the football club leaders announced in a brief statement on Monday, January 9. The Alsatian formation, currently 19
For his first season at the head of the team, the 42 -year -old technician had led Racing to an excellent 6 e place in the past year. But the exercise 2022-2023 took on long-distance tunes in hell: his team, penultimate, only has a victory in 17 days played.
The interim will be ensured “until further notice” by his former assistant Mathieu Le Scornet (39 years old). Ironically, for the sole success of Racing this season in the league, in Angers in early October, it was the latter who replaced on the bench Julien Stéphan, then touched by the COVVI-19. Strasbourg sees two difficult meetings looming, with the reception of Lens (2 e ), Wednesday, and a trip to Lyon (8 e ), Saturday.
Julien Stéphan had previously trained Rennes, from December 2018 to March 2021. He had left the Breton club of himself after a series of bad results. He won the Coupe de France in 2019 with Stade Rennais.
a record of dismissed coaches?
The elimination of the OGC Nice by the Puy, a national club on Saturday, in 32 es finals of the Coupe de France could also have been right for the position of coach Lucien Favre. L’Equipe reports This Monday that a dismissal procedure was initiated against the Swiss technician, whose contract would run until June 204.
He was “dismissed from his duties”, argues the agency France-Presse (AFP) quoting a source with knowledge of the file. It was Didier Digard, former community and club captain, would replace him. The club did not confirm this information.
m. Digard, until then the coach of the reserve team, had joined the staff of the professional team during the long truce linked to the World Cup. He could take place on the bench, on Wednesday, for the reception of Montpellier in Ligue 1, where the OGC only points to 11 e place.
Lucien Favre, 65, returned to the Riviera training at the start of the season after a first passage between 2016 and 2018. The first part of the current exercise was very complicated, the Aiglons n ‘ Having never managed to find continuity in the results after a chaotic transfer window.
If his departure was confirmed, nine out of 20 coaches will have been dismissed by their club since the start of the 2022-2023 league championship. Unheard of at this stage of a L1 season. On the whole exercise, the record dates back to 2015-2016, when 13 coaches had been thanked.