Coach’s epic journey from unwanted one to special one as club’s fairytale run in Champions League continues
At the very end of 2022, Éric Roy was convinced the ship he had hoped to board had sailed a while ago. How could it be otherwise? He was now in his 57th year, and his last – his only – coaching assignment had ended more than a decade previously.
He had resigned himself to carrying on working as a pundit for French television, as he had done since 2012, with a three-year spell as sports director with first Lens, then Watford from 2017 to 2020 sandwiched in between.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jan/20/vive-king-eric-roy-as-brests-song-for-europe-grows-ever-louder
Author : Philippe Auclair
Publish date : 2025-01-20 08:00:19
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