Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Wednesday October 16, 2024 at 12:53 p.m.
Yohan Cabaye was officially appointed sports director of the PSG training and pre-training center, a position he had already held in practice since the start of the season.
A promotion for Yohan Cabaye (38 years old). The former Lille-trained midfielder, who played a season and a half at PSG, between January 2014 and June 2015, was officially named sports director of the Parisian club’s training and pre-training center on Wednesday. After having held the position of sports coordinator of the Parisians’ training and pre-training center upon his return in 2021, Cabaye, who had stopped his playing career a year earlier following a final experience at Saint-Etienne , after having played at LOSC, Newcastle, PSG, Crystal Palace and the United Arab Emirates, was last season the assistant to sports director Luca Cattani, an Italian who left this summer after two seasons in the capital. Since then, Cabaye had effectively resumed his prerogatives and is now officially appointed head of the PSG Campus in Poissy. An “honor” for the native of Tourcoing.
“This is where the future of the club is being built”
“I am honored by this appointment and thank the club for its trust, explains the former French international (48 caps and 4 goals between 2010 and 2016) in a press release from Paris Saint-Germain. With the management team, I am determined to maintain Paris Saint-Germain as a world benchmark in terms of training. We aim not only for performance, but also for the transmission of fundamental values and the development of young talents. As soon as they arrive, they understand that our club. is unique, with a rich history and a quest for excellence At the training and pre-training center, we instill in them respect, exemplarity and self-improvement, because this is where the future of the club is built. And PSG then recalls that the objective of its training center always remains “to train elite players, while offering them a suitable academic curriculum.”
