If the dismissal of Corinne Deacon was very badly experienced in Clermont, the former players of the Auvergne club are not necessarily surprised. “Attila” has struck again…
The dismissal of Corinne Deacon from her position as coach of the France team has sparked many reactions. Signs of support were, however, rare. But in Clermont, the decision of the French Football Federation to separate from the Northerner went very badly. The first to react was Claude Michy, the former president of Clermont, behind his arrival in Ligue 2 in 2014. “All of this is very well organized by Jean-Michel Aulas, whom I have known for a very long time, for whom I have a lot of respect, who is a great football man, but who has never liked Corinne Deacon”he confided to the microphone of France Info, adding: “It was all pretty well organized and she was a victim of this thing. When a player from a club expresses herself and she is from Olympique Lyonnais, it is not a coincidence. »
But the most virulent was Pascal Gastien, who succeeded Corinne Deacon on the bench of the Clermont club. “What I saw was abject, not good”he thundered after the slap received against Lens (0-4). “The Federation was weak on that, I don’t think Renard had any sanctions, however there must be a charter at the level of the France team. For me, it’s outrageous.”he continued, adding: “What happened is serious, for the future, for our profession, he adds. I’m retiring in a year so it’s not very serious for me, but for those who arrive, if we let this kind of thing happen, it’s the door open to everything. »
She had succeeded in instilling fear
The dismissal of Corinne Deacon did not surprise everyone in Clermont, however. “I had warned” had also written on Twitter Thomas Guerbert, former Clermont player in reaction to the announcement of Wendie Renard, exhuming a message dating from October 2020 after the punch interview with Amandine Henry in which she denounced the management of the former central defender. “It happened the same way in Clermont and above all don’t expect her to change because it will never happen”he had written.
Because in Clermont, if the results were there, with three easily obtained postures, the methods of the technician are far from having won unanimous support. “In training, we all had to have the same matching socks. Long or short, usually everyone does what they want. There, it was no longer the case and there are guys who got drunk, had thus told Anthony Lippini in the columns of So Foot in the fall of 2020. “The first year, she put seven or eight players aside, telling us: ‘I am the coach. You are the player, you don’t have to understand.’ She had succeeded in instilling fear”, added goalkeeper Franck L’Hostis. Some then evoked a management “à la Attila”, where “every ear that protruded was cut off”. Criticisms regularly heard among the Blues in recent months…