For the first time since October 1996, Jean-Michel Aulas has taken the plunge. The president of Olympique Lyonnais coach dismissed during the season. As in 1996, Aulas has decided to appoint a “home product” to redress the balance of a staggering team. At the time, it was Bernard Lacombe, young sporting director, who succeeded Guy Stéphan took over and successfully in Lyon workforce for nearly four years.
As Bernard Lacombe – who pushed, almost twenty years later, on his appointment – at the time, Bruno Genesio will live at OL’s first head coach experience in professional football. If the times are different, the desire to get out by using the local pool is similar, as expressed in the statement posted Thursday on the club’s official website.
“We decided to focus on the institutional unit by entrusting to the end of this season as a first step, the coach Bruno Genesio. ( It) has a deep knowledge of the club and young professionals from the Academy. “
So the sacred unity of the institution must Genesio his appointment as head coach of Olympique Lyonnais. The man, indeed, a deep knowledge of a club he pinned to the body. Genesio signed its first license in Lyon in 1971, five and a half years. There are actually all classes, before wearing the shirt of the first team for nine seasons, from 1985 to 1995.
Bruno Genesio and Hubert Fournier (Lyon) – AFP
coach Two experiments, two failures
He returned in 2005, has held the observer functions of opponents, coach of the reserve team and assistant coach. In short, he knows all the components of the club which he is about to become the coach. But seniority does she competence?
What is at stake with Genesio is its ability to take on human responsibility, tactical, technical team on which Jean-Michel Aulas has high hopes. A non-qualification for the next Champions League, a chaotic journey for entry into the stadium or humiliating eliminations Coupe de France or the League Cup would be as much symbolic and financial failures of scale for the OL.
The native of the 7th arrondissement of the capital of Gaul endorsed twice in his career the head coach costume. A Villefranche-sur-Saône from 1999 to 2001, he revealed the club CFA (4th division) in Division of Honor (6th Division). Since then, the club has risen in CFA and never recorded the worst ranking as those known under his era.
In Besançon in 2004 Genesio was fired after only five months at the helm of the team. Which sank in the final season of National CFA. Not exactly the profile of a “ coach continued success for some time” qu’Aulas we confided search on December 4 …
Genesio, continuity rather than a necessary break?
This is not about his past as head coach Genesio will pull its legitimacy to his players. The story which Aulas dream is that of the club child who has learned the craft alongside Houllier, Puel and other Guard to be ready today to take alone the lead .
Remains to be seen if the reality will be as idyllic. OL is a crisis of confidence, and the figure of Genesio is any doubts, all the recent failures of the Lyon dressing room. Does not he need a break rather than continuity embodied by the man who animated the sessions and impulsait number of tactics Fournier choice? Does not he had an outside figure, rather than cultivate a self-between in which are likely to be some young players mired Lyon?
“ I caught him there shortly screaming on players ” Bernard Lacombe swore there are some days in Progress. So on that account his grip – in part – to wake OL cloakroom undermined by tensions and misunderstandings. And in terms of the game? “ The tactical daily work is insufficient , was firmly told Alexandre Lacazette in a recent internal meeting, according to RMC Sport . We do not understand the instructions . ” The tactical evolution of this team will be one of the main tasks of Genesio, including animation sessions yet was already one of the prerogatives.
Genesio will finally deal with a public far from enthusiastic promotion. On social networks, where petitions were already circulating about this, many Lyon fans had already expressed their opposition to his nomination. Without experience, without popular support and without significant margin of maneuver in the transfer window, the Genesio at OL age profile does not really auspicious.
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