Ligue 1: at the club for more than ten years, Stéphane Moulin will leave Angers at the end of the season

He was the longest-lived coach in the five biggest European leagues.

But it will be over soon.

At 53, Stéphane Moulin, the coach of SCO Angers, announced publicly on Friday March 26 that he would no longer lead the Angevin team next season.

"I decided to stop at the end of the season," said the technician at a press conference organized for the occasion with the presence of Said Chabane, the president however withdrawn from current affairs since his indictment for aggravated sexual assault following complaints by women linked to the club.

“I felt this season as difficult and trying,” explained Stéphane Moulin.

“I am still a lover of this club and will remain so forever.

The difficulty was to choose the right moment to announce it.

I think it's today, because the players will be going for a three-day break and so will I.

We will find ourselves on Tuesday with such a strong desire to finish the season well.

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A lot of emotions for the trainer of @ AngersSCO Stephane Moulin on the verge of tears pic.twitter.com/XLFGFEiGCd

- Antoine Raguin (@AntoineRaguin) March 26, 2021

His record at the head of the SCO is more than positive.

Arriving in 2011 at the helm of the first team, Moulin brought the club back to Ligue 1 in 2015 and reached the final of the Coupe de France in 2017. This season, the club, which aimed to maintain serenity, has almost reached its goal. objective since it points to a very honorable 10th place.

But, through the decision of Stéphane Moulin to leave his post, it is the arduousness and the hardness of the coaching profession that must be pointed out.

Many of his peers before him have reported on the complicated evolution of their role under increasingly boring and trying pressure.

A few weeks before him, another coach with recognized skills, Rennais Julien Stéphan, had preferred to leave his club ...