Back to basics for Francis De Taddeo? Even if the person concerned and his current club have not yet announced the news, the information has leaked, it is very commented on, and it has been confirmed to us.
Revealed by our colleagues from Direct FM, initially, the departure of Francis De Taddeo should be formalized at the end of the MHSC reserve team season in N2while Frédéric Garny’s men still have a game to play to try to snatch the maintenance, a mission in which the current boss is fully invested.
The loop soon closed
At 64, while his counterpart Sébastien Muet has just left the East of France to take over the management of the Monegasque Academy, Francis De Taddeo will therefore complete the loop and return to the Moselle, the department in which this professional great trainer.
Indeed, before allowing the arrival and/or emergence of young talents at Montpellier Hérault (Wahi, Estève, Delaye, Fayad, Guermouche, etc.), with all his collaborators, Francis De Taddeo started his career as coach of several youth teams in garnets, then piloted the FC Metz training center, from 1996.
Under his reign, for nearly ten years, several future great players have also revealed themselves: Louis Saha, Emmanuel Adebayor, Miralem Pjanic and Robert Pirès which he unearths at the Stade De Reims, where the former world champion is just starting in the third division, before his team’s bankruptcy filing.
His vision and talents as a nugget scout, Francis De Taddeo then puts them at the service of theAuxerre then from Caen Malherbe Stadiumwhere he took over the direction of the training, before slamming the door when the ephemeral Gilles Sergent and his colleagues arrived.
Many successes
It is at this moment that the contact is established between him and Laurent Nicollin, in spring 2018. In Montpellier, the president wishes to attract him to restructure the training center. In the space of four years, Francis De Taddeo printed his paw and his philosophy.
He modifies the organization chart, surrounds himself in particular with Véronique Zimmerman in charge of educational life, places the late Bruno Martini at the head of schooling, welcomes Didier Zanetti and Michel Rodriguez as trainers, integrates former pros like Henry Bedimo and John Utaka , entrusts the reins of the reserve to Frédéric Garny, allows Romain Pitau to join the staff of Olivier Dall’Oglio with the birth of a new role, and works hand in hand with Bernard Maraval and others to recruitment, little by little, more local than in the past, reducing the number of contracts in the process at the training center, favoring quality over quantity.
One of his first and greatest feats of arms, despite everything, remains the arrival of Ile-de-France player Elye Wahi, which he had been forced to dismiss from the weed training center, but which he recovers and revives once installed in Montpellier. A boy who has since exploded in Ligue 1, in addition to having made a place for himself in the France team (U19), and who, in the months or years to come, could constitute one of the biggest sales in club history.
Moreover, if he clearly defines himself as a trainer rather than a coach, Francis De Taddeo still managed to win the title of French Ligue 2 championin 2007, before the man to whom the Messins had entrusted the pennant team was named best coach of the division, that season, during the UNFP trophies.
Who will replace him ?
Several names circulate as potential successors. Internally, that of Frederic Garnycurrent coach of the reserve after having been that of the U19s, winners in particular of the club’s last Gambardella Cup, in 2017.
Outside, where the MHSC could also go to draw, that of the experienced pailladin Ghislain Printant recurs in the mouths of several interlocutors, but the track is not no newsat least at the current time, according to our information.
The faithful assistant of Jean Louis Gasset would have other projects in mind, for the moment, including one that could materialize quickly, while his friend has joined the Ivorian selection.
At last, Bertrand Reuzeauformer Paillade player (1991-1996) and former director of the academies of PSG, for ten years, and Monaco, between July 2019 and February 2022, until the collaboration is stopped, is also expected.