On La Channel L'Equipe, the former Girondins de Bordeaux midfielder, Ludovic Obraniakspoke about the job of coach, often thankless, with the backdrop of the fact that Julien Stéphan would be in the hot seat in Rennes.
“This story of players letting go of their coach, I don’t really believe it. However, I disagreed with a lot of coaches, but the relationship you have between yourself and your job, your professionalism and the fact of looking at yourself in a mirror… I don't know people who let go of a coach like that by saying 'I'm not going to play for him, I'm letting the opponent pass in front'. It doesn’t exist, at least from my point of view, it doesn’t exist”
Then he continues.
“In any case, players who no longer understand, who have difficulty applying a coach's philosophy, that's possible. Afterwards, what's quite funny, and that's where it's a crazy job as a coach, is that when the coach was legitimate he didn't stick with it, and now he doesn't. 's more, he clings. There, we clearly feel that there is a need for renewal, he is holding on. It’s a crazy job, it’s a crazy job.”
Benoit Trémoulinas specifies the fact that the players could let go of a coach.
“Sometimes, unconsciously, when we can't do it, we find ourselves on the pitch with our friends, we look at each other… With a slightly empty look. Everyone knows that look where the slightest pass doesn't work, we don't really understand the tactics anymore and we would like to change… Unconsciously, the players give up.”
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