Ten days after the defeat of AS Saint-Etienne against AJ Auxerre in the play-off, synonymous with a descent into Ligue 2 for the Greens, Pascal Dupraz breaks his silence.
The coach, to whom the leaders of ASSE had asked according to him "
not to [se] go to a press conference
", after the serious incidents that occurred that evening in Geoffroy-Guichard, speaks in
Le Parisien
.
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“
I assume my share of responsibility for this failure.
If I hadn't made any mistakes, ASSE would be in Ligue 1
", explains Dupraz, whose players "
all gave their best with their limits
" within a workforce "
no big enough to play anything other than maintaining .
“
Some young people may not yet have the codes of our profession, and their behavior may have sometimes irritated certain locker room executives… But they all wanted to save ASSE, I have no doubt
,” adds -he.
What is the next step ?
A death on the pretext that the team does not earn enough?
Pascal Dupraz
While a contract extension was in the air in the event of maintenance, Pascal Dupraz assures that he had already made the decision to leave the Greens on April 8 and a home defeat against Lorient (2-6).
“
After the match, supporters followed us,
he says
.
And one of their vehicles even hit our bus on the airport road.
On the tarmac, I was asked to go talk to the thirty or so guys present.
One of them yelled at me 10 cm from my face: “
You jester!
It is in your interest to keep the club otherwise you will be smoked
.
This death threat was the trigger to leave the club.
I understood that I would not go further than June 30, maintenance or not.
»
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“
In the stands (during the last match against Auxerre), I saw kids of 6 or 7 years old, invited by the club, screaming in fear in front of the smoke bombs that they were getting in the face,
he continues
.
What is the next step ?
A death on the pretext that the team does not earn enough?
This is unacceptable.
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