His name speaks to any handball lover: Jérôme Fernandez… The former player, passed by Montpellier, Barcelona or even Kiel, former captain of the France team, top scorer of the Blues, also triple Olympic champion and quadruple world champion arrives in Billère! Jérôme Fernandez becomes BHB development project manager unveiled this Monday afternoon the president of the club, Christian Laffitte, and the general manager, Julien Olek. Its role, to support the club – the smallest budget of professional clubs in France – to grow and “aiming for the first division in the medium to long term“, assures the main interested party. A transversal missionboth for the economic development of Billère Handball, but also, thanks to the network of the former back, as a talent scout.
Jérôme Fernandez explains that personal reasons lead him to move closer to the Basque coast, and that he intends to open an academy near Bayonne. It is in this context that the BHB approached him, to ask him, a little give and take, to join the club. Obviously, the Girondin will also have an eye on the team’s performance in the ProLiguebut “I don’t want to have decision-making or power over the sporting part“, specifies Jérôme Fernandez, so the brother, Arnaud, wore the colors of the club from 2013 to 2017. The new development project manager of Billère Handball returned to his role in 100% Clubs this Monday evening, a few hours after the announcement of his appointment, an interview that you can listen to in full.