Zapping Foot National Interview – The underside of amateur football, with Romain Molina
The soap opera continues. Without a coach since the ousting of Thierry Laurey on December 16, FC Martigues is still looking for a successor. In recent weeks, many names have been mentioned, such as those of Jean-Pierre Papin, the coach of the Olympique de Marseille reserve team (National 3), or Pascal Dupraz, used to playing the firefighter on duty. in his career. Neither of the two will be the next coach of the Ligue 2 resident. The red lantern, who started the year 2025 with a victory at Paris FC (2-1), has three names in his shortlist: that of Benoît Pedretti, as revealed by Foot Mercato, Hakim Malek (Alès, N3), which we revealed to you this Thursday, January 9 in the morning and… Fabien Pujo, still according to our information.
A complicity with Ibrahim Rachidi
As a reminder, the 51-year-old technician joined AS Cannes (National 2) last summer, before leaving the Côte d’Azur during the month of October and returning to GOAL FC, which he had led to the National championship for the first time in its history previously. But in the Rhône, the situation became seriously complicated for the National 2 resident, faced with a significant drop in points in the ranking. Last in Group A with only 3 points, GOAL FC is already seeing the maintenance mission become more complicated. Which could therefore convince Fabien Pujo to seize the opportunity. Holder of the BEPF, the coach who worked at Toulon and Begerac has the advantage of knowing Thierry Laurey’s former assistant Ibrahim Rachidi well, who has been acting since the latter’s departure. The complicity with the former Comorian central defender would even make the difference with the decision-makers in Marseille. A meeting between Fabien Pujo and the management of the FCM is on the agenda this weekend. The outcome could therefore be (finally) close for the identity of the future coach. Case (still) to be continued…
Pujo, in the footsteps of Christophe Pélissier?
During an interview given by Fabien Pujo to Foot National last November, the 51-year-old technician admitted his desire to have experience on a professional bench. “With humility, I think that I could and should have not left the N1, he told us in particular. These are paths and choices that are made. The objective is to find this championship, it’s in the process of evolution with obtaining the BEPF I have an atypical profile, which comes from very far away. So the objective is to try to follow the dream and. why not one day achieve what Christophe achieves? Pélissier, who also has a very atypical profile, with Auxerre in Ligue 1. The idea is to find a project on which we can evolve. There, there is this GOAL FC project over eight months, which will perhaps be one. project in which I would sign up for the future if we can again talk about accession to N1 Or it will perhaps be with another N1 club, because I think I have the potential to go there,” he added. .
To summarize
According to our information, a third name is joining the fray to become the next coach of FC Martigues: that of Fabien Pujo.
