2023-06-12 14:07:01
Xavier Garbajosa will no longer be in charge of Lyon next season. Arrived as manager of Lou in the summer of 2022 to replace Pierre Mignoni, the former winger or rear of the XV of France was dismissed from his post on Monday by its president Yann Roubert, indicates The team and confirms Le Parisien-Today in France. A decision taken eight days after the play-off lost at home (25-32) against Union Bordeaux-Bègles and at the end of a regular season that ended in third place in the Top 14 behind the two finalists, Toulouse and La Rochelle.
Because if he qualified Lyon for the final stages for the first time since 2019, “Garba” also had complicated relations with his workforce. These tensions with the one already landed from Montpellier in 2021 which had led some players to raise the problem with their president after the home defeat against Brive (27-30) at the end of December or even at the beginning of May before a trip to the Stade Français.
“I remain convinced that this group could go much further”
After the defeat against the Girondins, Xavier Garbajosa had spoken of “frustration and disappointment”, deploring “misconduct of indiscipline” and a greater realism of Bordeaux. “I remain convinced that this group could go much further,” said at this press conference the one who launched his retraining as a technician in 2014 in La Rochelle.
If Xavier Garbajosa has two years left on his contract, his leaders will now look for a profile capable of succeeding him. New Zealander Kendrick Lynn is also leaving the club, a decision taken for family reasons in October. The Lou should communicate on the situation of his now ex-manager during the day.
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