Officially presented this Friday as coach of Lens, Will Still laid the foundations of his mandate.
After-Haise: “I will never compare myself to Franck Haise. He is a legend of Lens, of French football. I like the coach, his personality. I am not here to replace him. Hats off to everything he has achieved Going from L2 to C1 is impressive. I simply want to write a new chapter in the history of the club which, I hope, will be long.
I don’t put pressure on myself. I respect what Franck did, but everyone is aware that it’s the end of a beautiful story and the opening of a new chapter with my personality that sometimes says crazy things. I’m not going to make people forget that. We’re going to try to continue to bring beautiful emotions to life.”
His playing philosophy: “It’s not far from what Franck was doing, not far from what I was doing with Reims. I want to play with enormous intensity. And this squad is full of qualities, of individualities. I’m going to rely on it. The base is more than solid here.”
His character : “Some of my statements were taken out of context and I was given an image of a guy that I’m not at all. I’m just normal. I don’t use words that I don’t understand. And it’s also one of the conditions of my coming here, I spoke about it to the club. Communication is part of this role as a coach, I have to progress. I’m still Will, I’m not going to change, but I. I need support on this front I’m only 31, I’m going to make mistakes, but I’ve learned a lot over the last 18 months, for good or bad. never for another.”
Surrounded by his brothers: “It’s pretty cool. It’s a privilege. Nico (Nicolas) worked with me in Reims, and I had never worked with Edward. But after discussions, we realized that it was the best thing to work together and not try to fight (laughing). But we are different in our characters, we don’t need to talk to each other. Ed will be deputy number 1 and Nico will be number 2. There will be no order in fact. We are very, very complementary in our differences. The only thing in common with Ed is that we are redheads and he is perhaps a little more handsome than me (laughing. ). Here too, it was obvious to work together. We thought we would meet for 2 or 3 hours to see how to work and after 20 minutes, we knew what we wanted to do, we did it anyway. won the World Cup with Sweden on FIFA, 14 years ago, so we’re super ambitious!”
