The Sports Association of Saint-Etienne (ASSE), red lantern of Ligue 1, formalized, Tuesday, December 14, the arrival at the head of the first team of Pascal Dupraz, recognized for his successful rescue operation of Toulouse in 2016 . 59 years old, he signed up until the end of the season, specifies on Twitter ASSE, who had formalized a few hours earlier the departure of his previous coach, Claude Puel, sacked after yet another rout against Rennes (0-5) in Ligue 1.
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Pascal Dupraz, who arrives with two assistants, will take up his duties after a one-week interim provided by Julien Sablé, one of Puel’s former assistants. The Haut-Savoyard thus resumes service after being removed from the management of the Caen team in March. Stade Malherbe was then fourteenth in Ligue 2 and in free fall after having won only one match between the month of December and his departure.
Miraculous rescue of Toulouse in 2016
Previously, Pascal Dupraz had been the architect of the miraculous rescue of Toulouse in 2016, before being sacked twenty months later when the TFC was nineteenth in the standings. Former professional player with 180 matches in Ligue 1 – in Sochaux, Thonon, Brest, Mulhouse, Toulon or Gueugnon – he has also coached Evian-Thonon-Gaillard, whose rise to the highest level he has contributed. He was in charge of the Haute-Savoie team at the time of relegation to Ligue 2 in 2015.
Saint-Etienne, beaten in Reims (2-0) on Saturday and remaining on a series of four consecutive defeats, is last in the French championship, with three points behind the barrage, Metz, and four on Troyes, seventeenth and not relegation.
