SM Caen. Stéphane Moulin, close to Olivier Pickeu, is leaving Angers: a serious lead for Caen?

By Aline Chatel
Published on 26 Mar 21 at 20:30

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Stephane Moulin will he be the next coach of the Stade Malherbe Caen ? At the present time, it is impossible to say. What is certain, however, is that the iconic coach ofAngers announced this Friday March 26, 2021 his departure from the club at the end of the season. Arrived at the club in 2005 as coach of the reserve team, he embodies the progress of Angers since his arrival at the head of the first team in 2011, under the responsibility of a general manager named… Olivier Pickeu.

A name inseparable from that of Olivier Pickeu

And that’s exactly why Stéphane Moulin’s announcement arouses the stir around Stade Malherbe. For many years, his name has been inseparable from that of Olivier Pickeu, sacked exactly one year ago. The two men, who spearheaded the rise of the SCO in Ligue 1 and then stabilized in the middle of the table, are very close. Stéphane Moulin also continues to work with a certain Benoît Pickeu as a physical trainer. “They have friends”, specifies the president of Caen.

Benoît Pickeu to Caen?

Olivier Pickeu has never hidden his desire to recruit his younger brother at Stade Malherbe. “You have to align my desire and feasibility, he confided to us last month. The timing, he’s the one who holds it. But Benoît Pickeu will also leave the Angers staff at the end of the season, it is now official. “Today, they (the deputies, editor’s note) have linked their destiny to mine,” Stéphane Moulin said during a press conference.

We can imagine that Benoît Pickeu would want to join a brother with whom he worked for 14 years. It was during the same period that Olivier Pickeu built everything with a “guy who[il] love it ”, Stéphane Moulin. And the former Stade Malherbe player is a loyal man, who notably brought the former Angers recruiter Frédérik Viseux to Caen.

“Tell me: I am with you for life”

Stéphane Moulin, 53, says he wants to “think calmly after [sa] career “. “My future is the two months that remain with the Angers SCO. For now, there is nothing else in my head than that, ”he insisted. In that of Caen supporters, many to have reacted quickly on social networks, there is the name of a coach who corresponds to everything that Olivier Pickeu is looking for.

And who is perhaps ready to repeat, again, “I am with you for life”, as a dream of hearing the president of Stade Malherbe by recruiting his future coach. “My way of imagining this job may be romantic, but it’s my vision,” he said in February. I want and need stability to build. In Angers, the stability was called Stéphane Moulin, who will be free from any contract on June 30, 2021.

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