2023-07-09 12:24:58
– The ambitious Lausanne City offers the services of Blaise Nkufo
The former international becomes the coach of Lausanne City. The fourth league club announced this on Saturday evening.
Posted today at 2:24 p.m.
Blaise Nkufo was notably responsible for Gelson Fernandes’ goal against the Spanish team during the 2010 World Cup.
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He only plays in the fourth league but he already dreams of challenging the biggest clubs in the future. Lausanne City has decided to hire former Swiss international Blaise Nkufo as their coach. “This reflects our ambitions … which are great, explains Tidiane Diouwara, the club’s sports director, all smiles. Blaise [Nkufo] was drawn to the project. He saw it as an innovative, interesting concept. It was not difficult to convince “A nice challenge, in short.
The objective is very clear: the Lausanne club created in October 2021 seeks to move up one league each year, until it reaches the Super League. Then after? “Why not challenge the biggest teams in Europe,” replies the sporting director. Tidiane Diouwara has seen the other Vaud clubs (re) rise in the best Swiss championship. He intends to accompany them. “I find it good that the elite teams are not always on the other side of the Sarine.”
To give oneself the means
To do this, Lausanne City takes care of all the details. Its first team, its infrastructure, the staff. Before being officially announced as a coach, Blaise Nkufo led a few sessions. He thus finished convincing his leaders. “He has complete training methods, which are a mix of the clubs he’s been through”, slips Tidiane Diouwara again. There was Lausanne-Sport, Echallens, Al-Arabi (Qatar) but also Yverdon Sport or FC Twente (Netherlands).
Not to mention the national team, with which the striker played from 2000 to 2010. “We can be proud to have as a coach someone who played in the 2010 World Cup, smiles Tidiane Diouwara again. When you have the honor of having faced Puyol, Xavi or Iniesta, you become a model for young people. It is a pleasure to have him with us.”
Neither the Spanish team nor Manchester City on the program this season, but rather teams that are firmly rooted in the Vaud region. Lausanne City’s first meeting with Blaise Nkufo on the bench will take place on August 19 against FC Valmont. The first home game will take place a week later against AS Haute-Broye.
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