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The coach of Nantes (10th), arrived in early October at the bedside of a club he had trouble recognizing, tells how he has recovered dramatically.
Ligue 1: matches of the 15th dayTo follow live on the site Team: Saint-Etienne – Nantes (this Friday, 20 h 45)
NANTES – Vahid Halilhodzic has never liked being caricaturized, but not so much as not to display two drawings of Faro in L'Équipe. Above, we see a petulant Waldemar Kita fight with the coach he has inducted in early October after the start of the failed season of FC Nantes (1 win in 8 days). "It must be a gift from Franck Kita (the managing director of the FCN, son of Waldemar) ", glides Halilhodzic, smiling easily despite his austere image. For one hour on Tuesday, the Franco-Bosnian (66) returned with his unique speech on his first two months at the head of the Canaries, unrecognizable, he went back from 19th to 10th place.
"Your first match was a scathing defeat in Bordeaux (0-3, October 7). Right after, you had appeared very dark. You said that Nantes was '' in the second division '' and that in the game '' he missed everything ''. You did not have a little added?What else could I have said? I was not going to take you for idiots! I told the truth. I may not be good communicator. We were in second division, and even well settled. We had to wake up. For me too it was a shock! There was 2-0 after seven minutes, 3-0 at half-time: it never happened to me, yet I've been in football for years … What is it? does Vahid arrive? Where did you land? Now we can laugh, but it was not easy. At the club, there was gloom everywhere. People came to work without envy. For me, Nantes, it was special: there was a culture, a tradition, a family spirit. I arrived thirty years later and I have not found anything of it. Nothing. When I entered my hotel room after the game in Bordeaux, I asked myself questions: should we continue or say stop? Because I knew what energy we should all have, not just Vahid. For me, it meant that it would be between twelve and fifteen hours a day: no family, no exit, no privacy. Nothing. Only: hotel, Jonelière, hotel, Jonelière.
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