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25.07.2020
Ice Hockey ” The Canadian will no longer be the sporting director of the Geneva club from July 31.
A page turns to Genève-Servette. Chris McSorley (photo Keystone) will step down as sports director on July 31 and will be replaced by Marc Gautschi. He arrived as a trainer in 2001. In the meantime he has also been its owner and manager. In short, the boss, the one who brought the club back to the LNA, took it twice to the final (and only twice to the play-out) and twice won the Spengler Cup. Nineteen years later, Chris McSorley’s story at Genève-Servette seems to be coming to an end. In any case, he will no longer be the sports director as of August 1.
“It is definitely a page which turns, but it is the life of a company, blows Laurent Strawson, president of the club joined by Keystone-ATS. This is not exceptional. Rather, the 19 seasons he spent at the club are. ” But for the boss of the Geneva club, the time had come to make this decision: “We have noticed in recent months that there were quite a few differences in the sports management of the club. We established a whole series of governance rules with the 1890 Foundation (which owns the club, editor’s note) and we observed that Chris was not necessarily comfortable in this context. The dissatisfaction was mutual and we came to the conclusion that it was better to release him from this function. ” That of sports director, therefore. Because, officially, according to the press release released by the Geneva club yesterday morning, the Canadian “will remain at the club’s disposal, in a role which has yet to be defined”. It remains confusing, with McSorley having a contract that some rumors say is massive. And it will not be easy to find him a role that suits him. “We’ve talked about it before and I have to say that I don’t really have an idea at the moment,” confirms Strawson. You have to see if there are other possibilities, but it is relatively unlikely that she will be found a job. But that has nothing to do with his contract. ”
This decision by the Vernets club marks a turning point. This is not the first, however, especially since the 1890 Foundation (which also owns Servette FC) took over the club in the winter of 2018. If Chris McSorley had taken over the post of coach for the 2018-2019 season ( after Craig Woodcroft had occupied it the previous season), the transformation had already started a year ago, when Patrick Emond was appointed coach of the first team.
But this time, the place of the Ontarian in the organization chart of the club is really threatened. As sporting director, it is in any case Marc Gautschi who will take over. The Bernese notably played at the GSHC between 2011 and 2013 and already belonged to the club’s sports commission. He is seen as the right profile to register for the long term recommended by the club: “With all these young people that we have in the team, we need a vision over the next five or ten years, details the president. The 1890 Foundation wants a long-term project. ” ats
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