LOSC coach since mid-June, Bruno Genesio lives with Olivier Létang, its president. An intense collaboration to which the technician returned at a press conference this Saturday.
“Oversized ego and exceptional manager, Olivier Létang, the hyperpresident who is shaking up French football”could read the Lille leader this Friday, the day of his birthday, at the top of the Ile-de-France site named
RMC
Sport. A perfect subject, which evokes the president of LOSC through two distinct angles, on which it was possible to bounce back this Saturday at a press conference: “I haven't seen what you're talking about, although I know that RMC is used to doing things a little differently,” replied Bruno Genesio (58 years old), amused. Landed in the North for almost six months, the technician evolves daily alongside
“the hyperpresident” Olivier Létang (52 years old) and is able to contribute to this portrait.
“You can’t just have people telling you that you are the most beautiful, the strongest”
A regular on the bench, it has been almost ten years since he took charge of Olympique Lyonnais, Bruno Genesio is not used to kicking into touch. He then started: « I believe that there needs to be ego in our professionwhen you are president, coach, player… This is also why we aspire to be in this environmenthe begins. It takes skills to last. Otherwise, you can give it a year or two. But when you last, you need skills because you are in a field in which there is a lot of competition. The president has shown since his time in Reims, Paris, Rennes and here, in Lille, that he has been able to perform well over the long term in his field, whether to bring teams to a high level, or to rectify a situation like that from Lille »confided the LOSC coach, successor to Paulo Fonseca.
The second part of the answer is more personal. If he remains on the surface, Bruno Genesio admits to some clashes with his manager: “We are two slightly different characters and I believe that what characterizes us is that we are capable of saying things to each other: the good things and the less good things when we need to say them to each other. It’s always with respect and form”he explains.
« We sometimes agree, sometimes we don't, but I think that's also how we move forward. It's not enough to only have people telling you that you are the most beautiful, the strongest and that everything is perfect to move forward in life. Even if it can sometimes lead to a little more heated discussions, it has happened and I hope it will happen again. We each have our own role and, for now, everything is going well.”ended up reassuring Bruno Genesio. What could have been the first point of contention? The choice of team compositions? Who knows… The fact is that Olivier Létang was recently questioned on this topic in the media.
