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The coach and manager of AS Saint-Etienne, Claude Puel confided in the columns of Liberation on the singular season experienced by all of French football and more particularly by that of the Forez club.
“Learned is not the word, but … let’s say that we had a great season of adaptation. Everything was out of the ordinary, unpredictable. Already, we started again before everyone else except for the two clubs involved. on the Final 8 of the Champions League which made us the only team to stop a month after its preparation, carried out at the time of the first sanitary measures, when no one knew where we were going. At the beginning, we had to wipe the balls with a disinfectant lotion! It changed all the time. Our match in Marseille at the end of August is postponed because there are five positive cases in the Marseille team: in January, we have to play in Strasbourg despite ten positives – an eleventh and we postponed – and eight people from the staff, which led us to send all the technical staff of the reserve to Alsace. One positive is a week of quarantine at home, a week of racing alone … I had players impacted for weeks, with hard forms s [de la maladie], others who have had it twice … Certain injuries can be explained by the pandemic, yes. “With a very young workforce, Saint-Etienne had to show increased vigilance in this context:” Some were very aware of the situation, the fathers of families, for example. On the other hand, the young people were more carefree which forced us to call to order. As for the collective aspect … When you are only entitled to one player at the table during meals or when you condemn the changing rooms, the impact on the notion of group is enormous. And we had to sort out things outside of football every day. Afterwards, we know very well that those who make a living from football are not the most impacted. We’re not going to complain. ”
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