Frank Dechaume, a new life for the former MOS who is aiming for a record in the Coupe de France

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Frank Dechaume, a name known to the vast majority of football fans in Caen (Calvados). First through a full career in the heart of the weed traininghe who was trainer for 20 years from 1997 to 2017 at the Stade Malherbe Caen. He will have had the chance to rub shoulders with and support players who have now become professionals, such as Jessy Deminguet, Jean-Victor Makengo, or Yann Karamoh.

In the 5th round in the cup with La Maladrerie

Later, with the MOS, as coach of the first team, Frank Dechaume will take his group to the fifth round of the French Cup. With this experience in the Caen region, driven by a love of football and the desire to get closer to his children, the Normandy coach then launched a new challenge in November 2023, swapping the red tunic of the MOS for the green of FCE Mérignac Arlac in Girondewithout forgetting his beautiful years spent in the Normandy region.

When talking about his career, Frank Dechaume wishes above all to “thank all the people I know in the Caen region, colleagues, presidents, the press, parents, players… I still check the results regularly. I have a thought for all the players in Caen football. And yes, I want to thank them because without all these meetings, I would never be the man and the coach that I am today. “

A new challenge with a taste of resilience

While for some, 47 years is synonymous with a midlife crisis, for Frank Dechaume it is still and always an opportunity to learn, to discover a new world and to know yourself better.

I had been working in the same region for a long time and I needed to prove to myself that I was capable of succeeding elsewhere, where my name didn’t speak for me. So, I came to an area where I had to redo everything, so I learned resilience.

If today everything seems to be going well on a sporting level for Frank Déchaume, this new life will have been synonymous with a major challenge, between leaving one’s balance, discovering a new entourage, enduring the Bordeaux housing crisis , enough to challenge your mental strength:

» By rediscovering your job, you find meaning in what you do, because after taking this risk of leaving, I tell myself that I’m happy with where I am, but it was cheeky. You give up everything. My friends are in Caen, my family, apart from my children, is in Caen. For me my benchmarks are in Caen. So, overnight, you leave everything and you have people who miss you. Arrived at 47 years old, it’s not always easy to start from scratch. »

“I feel good here with people who trust me”

Despite the risk-taking, and the audacity of this career choice, the new Marignanais seems fulfilled in his new project: “To work, I need to feel good, to share values ​​and a vision of football which is in agreement with mine. SO, Currently, I am happy where I ambut we don’t know what tomorrow brings. “

And this recipe, based on common values, education, sharing, and understanding people before trying to understand the players, seems to work. Arrival in November 2023 Frank Déchaume recovers Mérignac in a bad position from the demanding Regionale 1 Nouvelle-Aquitaine. With his experience, he managed to reverse the trend and use the strengths of his group to finish first in his championship, thus reaching the play-off for accession to Nationale 3. If this experience was not concluded, not by a climb, it was nevertheless the opportunity to fill up on confidence and build on solid foundations.

Club record goal

With a group full of quality, AS Mérignac is once again experiencing a season full of emotion, reaching to a seventh round of the French Cup. If the championship is the main goal, the experienced coach is ready to swap a few points in the championship for a great cup adventure, with the club’s record in sight, an eighth round of the French Cup. Knowing his group, Frank Déchaume allows himself to dream: “My group is built to achieve an extraordinary feat, and a nice club with human qualities. And why not a Norman club for a 32nd final of the Coupe de France, that would be magical! » See you this weekend for the men of Mérignac, facing Beaumont Saint-Cyr who are playing one division below, in Regional 2.

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