After Julien Stéphan in Strasbourg on Monday, it is now the turn of Lucien Favre in Nice to lose his coaching position. The club decided to separate from the coach after the elimination against Puy (National 1) in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France. The Swiss coach will be replaced by Didier Digard for the match against Montpellier on Wednesday.
Favre, who is 65, returned to Nice at the start of the season after a first spell between 2016 and 2018. Currently 11th in Ligue 1, the Riviera club was eliminated this weekend in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France. France by Le Puy, National team.
His deputy also dismissed
Lucien Favre’s assistant, Christophe Moulin, is also dismissed. The two men were under contract until June 2024. This decision takes effect immediately and it is therefore Didier Digard, former midfielder and club captain, who will be on the Nice bench on Wednesday for the reception of Montpellier in Ligue 1.
He will be supported within the staff by Frédéric Gioria, another historical figure of the Riviera club, and by the goalkeeping coach Nicolas Dehon, two technicians who were part of Favre’s staff. While serving as reserve team coach, Digard had joined the professional team’s coaching staff during the long World Cup-related break.
Former Saint-Etienne midfielder Julien Sablé had succeeded him in charge of the reserve and will also accompany him in the staff of team A.
Arrival of Jean-Claude Blanc
The first part of the season was very complicated for Nice and Lucien Favre, who never managed to find continuity in the results after a chaotic transfer window.
The announcement of the departure of the Swiss technician comes a few weeks after the arrival at the club of Florent Ghisolfi, former sports director of Lens.
Next month, the deputy general manager of Paris Saint-Germain Jean-Claude Blanc must also take up his post as executive director of the Ineos Sport group, on which OGC Nice depends.
With the dismissal of Lucien Favre, preceded by only a few hours by the precautionary layoff of Julien Stéphan, the Strasbourg coach, Ligue 1 is now at nine coaches dismissed from their functions since the start of the season.