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Former legendary ASSE player and coach, Robert Herbin died a few hours ago in Saint-Etienne. The Sphinx is gone.
The information was expected: it was unfortunately confirmed by the journalist Jacques Vendroux. Robert Herbin, former ASSE player and coach, died on Monday evening after a long fight at the CHU de Saint-Etienne. Nicknamed the Sphinx, for his propensity to remain impassive on his bench, Robert Herbin, 81 years old, will remain as a legendary figure of the Greens.
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Champion of France with ASSE, as a player, six times, including a last title with only one match on the clock (1975) because he was already coaching, Herbin was also as coach three times. The last of which, in 1981, when the club from Saint-Etienne had changed its face and
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