Football: the new Bordeaux coach, Bruno Irles is facing the “biggest challenge” of his career

2024-08-28 13:29:10

Bruno Irles, who led his first season with the Girondins on Wednesday morning, relegated to National 2 (4th division), came to Bordeaux to accept the “challenge”, the “greatest challenge” of the “coaching career” soak.

“I am signing for a club that is not a N2 company and I am signing up for a challenge,” the 49-year-old Engineer told reporters at the end of training, three days before the Girondins’ first match, Saturday in home against Poitiers.

One more challenge for Irles, who managed to bring Pau and Quevilly-Rouen Métropole (QRM) from the National to Ligue 2 in recent seasons, before keeping Troyes in Ligue 1 in June 2022, in time each with limited resources.

“There’s a real joke that I look forward to”

In Bordeaux, “There is a real sporting challenge ahead of us, I signed up with the desire to build and renew the fire of the Girondins and it is stronger than L1 or L2, stronger than what I have experienced. There is a real adventure of I look forward to coming here,” he said.

Without going into the team’s extra sports mode, “I’m taking care of it but I know what happened, I follow it all”, the engineer wants to “restore this fire, bring smiles back to people, to the artist, to worker. with me It was a big challenge, the biggest challenge of my coaching career. “

Even if his players “don’t know each other” and show “different states of form”, Irles wants to be sure about the quality of his team.

“The team you see today is not going to be the team next week and it’s not going to be the team on Saturday or in a fortnight. I am sure that with the players that will arrive, we will rekindle this fire,” he added, emphasizing the human aspect of this first season.

“When I talk about adventure, it’s more than every human adventure. We have to do simple things, talk a lot. Players must be aware of the difficulty of the challenge before us. Not because the team is in N2 and we are called Girondins… It will be very complicated and they will have to reach that level,” concluded the former Monaco defender.