Midfielder passed by AS Saint-Etienne and Stade Rennais, Gelson Fernandes has experienced seven different championships. Now a consultant, the former Swiss international gave himself up on his adventure in France!
Arrived in 2009 on the side of AS Saint-Etienne, his first full season and his 37 matches played in Forez will not prevent the successive loans that he will experience thereafter. Traveling through Europe during his career which ended not long ago, he will know Italy (Chievo, Udinese), England (Leicester), Portugal (Sporting), and Germany (Friborg, Eintracht Frankfurt ) lately. But it is in Rennes that he lives his best hours as he confides in the columns of Our Mondial.
Rennes, the beautiful story of Gelson Fernandes
For three years, the midfielder will live a beautiful story on the side of Brittany. Arrived in 2014 after the World Cup, he evokes “good memories as well as having had fun there”. Arrived to replace Bakayoko, the proposed speech seduced him: “The speech of the president, the sports director and the coach convinced me. The club had to be stabilized in the middle of the table. There were relatively clear financial prerogatives, which then enabled us to do what was necessary. ”
While he saw Ousmane Dembélé hatch near Rennes before his departure for Dortmund, then Barcelona, the former Swiss international still follows his former club … and Eduardo Camavinga, the new attraction: “They have a very competent coach with enormous potential. You could already tell when I was there, and he was a CFA coach. They have a clear and precise organization within the management, an owner always present to support his club. Brittany is a land of football. He is a very talented player, a very high-class midfielder, today in the French team. He is doomed to a great future… ”
Crédit image : Patrick Seeger / RTS
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