An interventionist leader, very present in the media, Olivier Létang (LOSC) recently spoke about his relationship with his coach as well as his state of mind during his public positions.
“Right and rigorous, he is very demanding, at the risk of perhaps sometimes being frontal. He knows how to make himself understood”explained Jean-Baptiste Guégan, specialist in the geopolitics of sport and author of a Popular history of PSG almost four years ago, when Olivier Létang arrived at Domaine de Luchin in the role of employee-president. The warmth of the inhabitants of the North has not shaken this stature and this requirement reigns supreme today on the cobblestones of the LOSC training center, even more so on its lawn.
Special guest of the show l’After Foot this Wednesday, the Lille leader was questioned about his interventionism and the relationship he can maintain with his coach. “Is it true that Létang is the only president who requests match sheets? »ask Gilbert Brisbois, Daniel Riolo and Florent Gautreau.
“Not at all, that’s completely false. We can talk with the coach, but I don't have this obsession. If I am present in Lille, I am often at training where we see the set-upretorts Olivier Létang. I refuse to talk about technique and tactics with the players. It's possible that we talk about it with the coach, when there are only two of us and he consults me. On the other hand, at no time do I want to intervene in the team composition. The coach has total freedom in his choices”he explains under the doubtful gaze of his interlocutors.
“Is it difficult to be a coach with Olivier Létang? I'm here to give a lot of strength to my coach, and that's something that's very importantinsists the president of LOSC.
Too recurring interventions?
“He likes cameras anyway, Létang, we know that”recently released Karim Bennani on the airwaves of The Team Channel following the strong speech of the Lille leader in Nice, where the draw result remained in the throat (2-2). A subject which is also debated among Lille supporters, and which questioned the columnists present around the set this Wednesday.
« When there are interventions, I always first discuss with the coach to find out if we agree or disagree on a certain number of things. The idea is to win, not to please myself. There have been a certain number of interventions, like after Saint-Étienne for example. I say what I think, because from the moment our values are affected, when we are no longer within the framework of what we had said with the players (on the state of “mind, mentality and values), there we can actually have discussions”he explains.
From Forez to the Côte d'Azur, Olivier Létang sometimes comes out of the woods to bang his fist on the table: “As long as the boys are not in line with our values, I must intervene as many times as necessaryhe continues, detailing his thought pattern. We have a lot of discussions with the players together. What I want is that at the end of the year we can all look each other in the eye and no one has cheated, no one has lied. […] We are all in the same boat, all aligned. When we lose, I am primarily responsible because I chose the men. We can say all that in the locker room, but if we do it publicly, it's not that it makes me happy, but at a given moment, we have to be an institution that must be very strong. No one is above the club”concludes the LOSC representative on the radio waves
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Olivier Létang, special guest of After Foot
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