for the post-Juninho, OL relies on Bruno Cheyrou promoted to director of recruitment

Olympique Lyonnais turns the page Juninho. After the departure announced at the end of November of the Brazilian sports director, the Rhone club appointed Bruno Cheyrou technical advisor and director of male and female recruitment. The person concerned spoke about his new functions in a video interview published on OL’s Youtube channel.

43-year-old Bruno Cheyrou has worked with OL’s director of football, Vincent Ponsot, since his arrival at the club in 2019. Initially, he was supposed to collaborate in recruiting the men’s team, but differences of opinion with Juninho had occurred. is changing its role towards actions closer to the women’s team, the Academy and international partnership agreements.

Bruno Cheyrou, Director of Recruitment, explains the organization and its role within Olympique Lyonnais.

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“Since I have been with OL, my goal has been to bring my expertise and my skills in my technical field and to be as useful as possible for the club.“, he confided.” JI am at the club’s disposal. I had not disappeared but my missions were a little different. I come back to the level of the recruitment of boys, from which I had left, and of girls in a slightly more important way“.

Juninho should be the only Lyon executive to leave the ship for the moment. In an interview with The team, OL president Jean-Miche Aulas assured that his trainer Peter Bosz would not leave the Rhone club this winter: “We spent some time with Peter to give him our thoughts, as well as some solutions.“, he said. “There you go: there’s no way Peter won’t be here until the end of February. I will leave us the two months of January and February to return to the Championship and perhaps the Cup, if we are lucky enough to be able to continue it. Peter is a very, very good coach.“, he also added.