Inducted alone at the head of the LOSC first team, Bruno Genesio sees his staff fill up over the weeks. Jérémie Bréchet is one of the latest arrivals, arriving directly from Olympique Lyonnais.
Landed alone at the head of the LOSC first team, Bruno Genesio (57 years old) constitutes his technical staff over the weeks. After Dimitri Farbos (assistant) and Nicolas Dehon (goalkeeper coach), he strengthened his close guard with Jérémie Bréchet (assistant) and Antonin Da Fonseca (physical trainer), recruited, as suggested The team, from Olympique Lyonnais in Pierre Sage’s team. Retired from the field since 2018, Bruno Genesio’s second assistant has spent all his time with Les Gones, which he is leaving for the very first time in his young career on the benches.
A road captain
Unlike Dimitri Farbos, whose portrait can be found on the site, Jérémie Bréchet (44 years old) spent twenty years playing professional football. A native of Lyon, he trained at Olympique Lyonnais where he first won the academy championship in 1998. Quickly promoted to the first team, he established himself in Ligue 1 in the full-back position. left until he had three selections for the French team with Roger Lemerre. He won the Confederations Cup, was a double French champion with OL (2002 and 2003) alongside Juninho and Sonny Anderson then went to Italy. At Inter Milan in the summer of 2003, he had a season below his expectations, victim of an injury and a change of coach. This experience will only last one year, but will continue at Real Sociedad where he will experience the same fate over two seasons for around twenty matches played. Placed in central defense, he bounced back at FC Sochaux-Montbéliard. He asserts himself on the pitch as much as in the locker room, now wearing the captain’s armband. It was with this one that he lifted the Coupe de France in 2007. A stint at PSV Eindhoven then a return to Sochaux, he then moved to Troyes (2012-13) then to Bordeaux (2013-14) before concluding his career at Gazélec Ajaccio. After twenty years of career, he ended it in 2018, with the armband on his arm.
In Sochaux as in Corsica, Jérémie Bréchet was considered a strong leader in the locker room: “The captain is the one who pulls the group to the top either because he is an example or because he has a strong temperament, a strong character. He’s the one who knows how to handle difficult times, who knows how to show the right path, the one on whom the team can rely when things go wrong. He must be reliable and always know how to ensure that the workforce is reasonable. […] Anyone who thinks that being a captain means having power is wrong.”he confided in 2021 in an interview given to Foot Market.
A life-saving return to basics
Exiled in Corsica for four long years, Jérémie Bréchet set the tone at the end of his career: “I have plans, for the moment nothing decided, I’m going to go home (to Lyon, editor’s note) and I’m going to take the time to think”he declared in 2018 on the set of Foot is Enough. This reflection lasted a few months before he reconnected with his past, Olympique Lyonnais. Like Sebastien Pennacchio on his return to Lille, he started in the youth categories (U12, U13) then became an assistant within the reserve team before taking on the role of coach with the U19s in the summer of 2023. Some months later, he took over as interim manager with Sonny Anderson and Jean-François Vulliez at the head of the first team, filling the void left by Laurent Blanc, Franck Passi and Philippe Lambert, all three sacked. He then yo-yoed, returning to his position with the youth team before joining the technical staff of Pierre Sage in November (the 30th), when Fabio Grosso had not lasted very long in his position.
A rapid rise is not really what Jérémy Bréchet had planned: “It’s true that life, whether you’re a footballer or a coach, requires a lot of adaptation. It wasn’t planned like that, but we’re here to give what we have to give. We will fight alongside the players to get back to where the club should be. Today is a step that comes quickly, but I take it with great enthusiasm”he confided to the Olympique Lyonnais communications team (see below).
Jérémie Bréchet: Interview at OL
From captain to guide
Close to Pierre Sage, Jérémie Bréchet fully contributed to the return to form of Olympique Lyonnais. An experience lived in parallel with one’s learning and obtaining the BEFF, a diploma allowing one to coach a senior team (women’s D2, or even up to Regional 1). Rather focused on defensive work, he is also and above all very close to the players he supports: “Jérémie’s position is very important in our organization. It acts on the players, the player associations, while I am more in the overall logic of the team and the group. He relays details, relays associations and he has a very strong impact on the players. Besides, I think he is completely legitimate to do this thing.”detailed Pierre Sage, coach of Gones, during the season to discuss the work of Jérémie Bréchet.
From now on, it is in Lille under the leadership of Bruno Genesio that the former Sochalien will continue his career. The technical staff will return very soon (June 25/26) to the cobblestones of the Domaine de Luchin to begin the marathon that is a season in Ligue 1. His past as a player could allow him to take over from Paulo Ferreira, whose proximity to the Mastiffs, and more particularly the defenders, had been praised during the past financial year.
