Lucien Favre claimed two or three years to set up his project in place at OGC Nice and in particular to fight “for the Ligue 1 title“. The Swiss, already weakened by results at half mast, can say goodbye to his request. “Lucien Favre is no longer the coach of OGC Nice. His mission at the head of the first team has come to an end“, thus announced the OGCN in a press release on Monday.
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This decision takes effect immediately and it is therefore Didier Digard, former midfielder and club captain, who will be on the Nice bench on Wednesday for the reception of Montpellier in Ligue 1. He will be supported within the staff by Frédéric Gioria, other historical figure of the Riviera club, and by goalkeeping coach Nicolas Dehon, two technicians who were part of Favre’s staff. While serving as reserve team coach, Digard had joined the professional team’s coaching staff during the long World Cup-related break. Former Saint-Etienne midfielder Julien Sablé had succeeded him in charge of the reserve and will also accompany him in the staff of team A.
The ninth Ligue 1 manager to be sacked
The first part of the season was very complicated for Nice and Lucien Favre, who never managed to find continuity in the results after a chaotic transfer window. The announcement of the departure of the Swiss technician comes a few weeks after the arrival at the club of Florent Ghisolfi, former sports director of Lens. Next month, the deputy managing director of PSG Jean-Claude Blanc must also take up his post as executive director of the Ineos Sport group, on which OGC Nice depends.
With the dismissal of Lucien Favre, preceded by only a few hours by the precautionary layoff of Julien Stéphan, the Strasbourg coach, Ligue 1 is now at nine coaches dismissed from their functions since the start of the season.
(With AFP)
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