Thanked after only seven league games. Raymond Domenech, who arrived at the end of December as FC Nantes coach, was sacked while the team is now in a barrage position in Ligue 1, announced the club at the very end of the day, Wednesday, February 10.
He is replaced by Antoine Kombouaré “So that the club starts a new impetus to keep its place in the elite”. Kanak becomes the sixteenth coach (eighteenth if we count the interim) of the Kita era, the president of FC Nantes, since 2007.
The former coach of the Blues, who had not coached since the Knysna fiasco during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, failed to straighten out a failed team. The Canaries remain on a series never seen in their history of 15 games without a win, including four draws and three losses since the arrival of Domenech. FC Nantes is 18e place in Ligue 1 before moving to Angers this weekend.
Antoine Kombouaré approached
Wednesday afternoon, Nantes received Lens in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France, but the former coach of the Blues was not on the bench because he was placed in solitary confinement after a positive test for Covid-19 on Monday , despite another negative test on Tuesday.
His deputy Patrick Collot once again took over the interim, as in December after the dismissal of Christian Gourcuff.
Antoine Kombouaré will have to take up the challenge of avoiding relegation to Ligue 2. Trained in Nantes as a player, he then coached PSG and Dijon, whom he saved from the descent in 2019, but he was powerless in Toulouse the season last.
