In Bordeaux, Franck Chaumin fired by email just before a match

Goalkeeper coach for the Girondins de Bordeaux until October 31, Franck Chaumin talks about how he was fired before the trip to Blois.

This Wednesday, L’Equipe published a long article on the end of the career of Girondins de Bordeaux employees. Numerous testimonies show how brutal and above all inhuman this breakup was. This is particularly the case of Franck Chaumin. Coach of the training center’s goalkeepers since 2013, the technician tells the sports daily how he was fired last October. Just before returning to his native Loir-et-Cher.

“On October 31, while I was preparing the first team’s trip to Blois, I received an email from management at midday asking me to leave my post before midnight. We hit a wall, without any consideration for the work done. » Franck Chaumin had refused an offer of part-time reclassification, as part of the job protection plan. The Girondins offered him 1,700 euros per month for 17.5 hours of work. However, with the travel of group B of National 2, the working time seems too tight.

In total, 86 employees were made redundant as part of a job protection plan. With great bitterness. “I was madly in love with my work at the Girondins de Bordeauxunderlines François Bommé, co-responsible for goalkeepers at the Girondins training center since 2017. But in the end it hurt me. It had become a toxic relationship. I feel like I’m going through a breakup. » Many educators at the training center even had to announce the closure to young people themselves due to the loss of professional status. Sad…