Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: the debrief of the match against AS Monaco
Revelation of the season at ASSE, Yvan Neyou spoke at length during an interview to the Instagram Vista account. The opportunity to return to his battered career … With a fairly disarming frankness.
Launched in the deep end in Sedan (National 1) after his failure at the Auxerre training center, the Cameroonian came very close to a first experience in Ligue 1: “Several clubs have like Lille and Standard de Liège have taken information about me and I signed my first professional contract with Stade Lavallois, which played in Ligue 2, ”he says in remarks transcribed by the supporters site Poteaux-Carrés.
Having gone to try his luck in Braga, Yvan Neyou thought he had won over the club’s coach, but his departure to PAOK Salonika sent him back to the reserve team: “I told myself that I was really bad luck. In the space of 2 years, I have known 4 coaches in Laval, 5 in Braga. Few trusted me but it surely came from me. In Laval Marco Simone and Jean-Marc Nobilo trusted me. In Braga, Rui Santos and Abel Ferrera. Changing coaches often didn’t help me. “
“Nobody knew I was in contact with the Greens”
Luck finally turned last summer when Claude Puel called him: “In my head I didn’t really want to go back to Braga because it didn’t go very well. Sometimes we don’t respect young people, we don’t give them the confidence they deserve. Sometimes they are treated as less than nothing. But I still had three years of contract with Braga. Coach Puel said to me: “Yvan, I would like to bring you to Saint-Etienne, are you interested? “Me:” Obviously that interests me! Can’t you see where I’m playing? (Laughs) Frankly, at the time I don’t believe it. I tell myself something’s going to happen. He will no longer call me back, no longer give any sign of life. But I see that it speaks, my agent calls me back. So it’s real, there is real interest! I tell myself that maybe this is the beginning of the end of the nightmare. I let the time pass, I work, I keep in shape. Finally it is finalized, I sign with Saint-Etienne. No one knew I was in contact with the Greens, no newspaper had mentioned it. Even my mom and my best friends didn’t know. They know it the day I sign ”.