The former midfielder and coach confides in his rich career in a biography he wrote himself. Extracts.
Without a club since his last experience at Saint-Etienne in 2021, Claude Puel (61) is taking a break from his coaching career which began in 1999. The opportunity for the former midfielder who has spent his entire career in Monaco (601 matches) to engage in a biography, Libre (Solar Editions), which he himself wrote from A to Z. A dive into the daily life of a player but above all of the coach who managed Monaco, Lille, Lyon, Nice, Southampton, Leicester and finally the Greens, between 2019-2021). If he did not take up the pen to settle his accounts with his former employers, the Castrese reveals on the other hand all the backstage of his passages in clubs, the circumstances of his departures but also his principles of management and his passion for the ball. round. A story enriched by sometimes surprising anecdotes in France and also in England. Here are a few picked up as you read.
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