Rennais Stadium. These figures show that the Breton club is one of the best trainers in Europe – Stade Rennais

1. Rennes in the European gratin

For several years now, Stade Rennais has been one of the best European training clubs. According to ranking drawn up by the Football Observatory of the International Center for Sport Studies (CIES), the Breton club is in 7th place in Europe when we look at the number of players trained in Rennes and who play in one of the five major leagues: 25. The Rouge et Noir are thus behind Real Madrid, Barcelona, ‘Olympique Lyonnais, Paris-Saint-Germain, Valence and Real Sociedad. But they especially dare the pawn to European leaders like the two Manchester, Arsenal or Chelsea but also all the Italians. “It’s not a surprise,” notes Patrick Rampillon, former director of the Rennes training center. We’ve been able to recruit, train and promote for several years now ”.

2. Players who play in big clubs

If we widen the ranking to 31 European leagues, Stade Rennais finds itself further away (31st with 35 players in total) since many Eastern European teams have players playing in minor championships. This is one of the strengths of the Bretillian club: it has trained players playing in big clubs like Ousmane Dembélé (FC Barcelona), Tiémoué Bakayoko (Naples) or Abdoulaye Doucouré (Everton) for example.

3. Close relations with regional clubs

Four FC Lorient players were trained at Stade Rennais (Laurienté, Marveaux, Lemoine and Hamel). At Stade Brestois, Lilian Brassier is not on this year’s CIES list since he only played his first match with the Finistériens in November when the figures stopped at October 20. “It gives me pleasure that we put forward the relationship between Rennes and other Breton clubs,” smiles Patrick Rampillon. With the management of the club at the time, we said that we should not have a single Breton player trained elsewhere than in the region. I think we’ve been pretty good in this area: do you know a lot of Bretons who have succeeded in breaking through elsewhere? “

4. Rennes gives young people a chance

If Stade Rennais is also a great training club, it is because it has given young people a chance. “I didn’t train anyone,” continues Patrick Rampillon. But what we managed to do in Rennes is to put the right people in the right place. Haize, Stephan, Chauvin… who know how to give the keys to both footballer and individual, because it is not enough to be a good ball player ”. The emergence of players like Camavinga, Hunou, Truffert in the meantime, that programmed, of Gboho, Rutter or Soppy are notably proof of this.

“Our role at the training center is also to get wet with the club’s sports management and say ‘okay, this one, he has to play with the first team’. A priori, in Rennes, we were not too bad since in addition to having brought out players, the club managed to stay at the top of the bill unlike others like Auxerre or Sochaux who are not failed to stay in the elite ”.

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