Patrice Garande is the latest coach to have raised the SM Caen in Ligue 1. It was May 2014 and it is one of his most memorable memories of his career. He is back on this highlight and to the Norman football team on Monday Allo Malherbe.
The latest rise of the SMC in Ligue 1
“It is one of my best memories. There was already an expectation about it. When you are a manager, you live your passion indirectly through what the players do. When you know what Malherbe stands for and given the expectation that was there. that season. It was both a liberation and a great happiness. The year before we had missed a bit, but there was a certain continuity. This was the hallmark of the Stade Malherbe. The coaches didn’t change often. I note that there is a certain continuity even now, I hope it bodes well for a final like the one we met because it is a club that not only deserves to be in Ligue 1 but that must be in Ligue 1. It is still I find an important place in the French football.
The end of his collaboration with Dijon
“I had made the decision to leave Dijon at Christmas but the goal has not been reached since I arrived, the team was 19th and had taken a point in five games I think. It was a bit. The goal was to finish in the best of ways possible place and save the club to stay in Ligue 2. And when it was acquired, I told my president that I did not want to stay for personal reasons, without going into too much detail, to express yourself when you are a manager, you have to find all the parameters necessary to be able to play the climb the following season. And I did not find him. By mutual agreement we decided to communicate with the president for this friendly separation a month before the end. The president was allowed to work on a new coach, to tell the truth even with the players.
Its future
“It is already difficult to find clubs. There are twenty clubs in Ligue 1, twenty clubs in Ligue 2. Next year there will be eighteen places in Ligue 1, eighteen in Ligue 2. Then there will be the national team with professional teams and others not. such an exciting job that it is best done by being happy in the morning when we get up to go to train the players. I am waiting for a project. I will be 62 years old. I know what I want and I know what I do not want anymore. I go to see if I can find something to develop further in this profession and in football. my passion. We will see. I think it is still a little early. There will be a period when I think positions will become vacant. It is a shame, but it is the law of our profession. We’ll see”.
SM Caen this season
“They have a team to be in the top five quietly. I have seen two games and in particular that of Guingamp (4-1). I find it a fairly efficient team that perhaps lacks a striker to really run for the top two places but they will have a great season “.
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