The TLM will formalize this Friday the signing of its new coach until 2027: the Paris Volleyball technician Dorian Rougeyron.
Sunday afternoon (5 p.m.), the duel between Tourcoing (5th) and Paris (9th) will look like a handover. The TLM must announce, this Friday, the arrival of the Parisian technician Dorian Rougeyron to succeed Mauricio Paes who, after three mixed years on the northern bench, will give a new impetus to his rich career started in Saint-Brieuc, 29 years ago.
“We wanted to offer Dorian a long contract, three years as for Mauricio before, to let him know that he had the keys to the truck.picture the former smuggler who became general manager Yann Lavallez. Dorian knows Ligue A perfectly, has an atypical character, a real personality and he has proven that he knows how to win with great teams and make less strong collectives play well like this season, for example. At the club, with Pascal (Lahousse, the president), we are delighted that he has accepted this new challenge in a structured club where he will work with new staff and discover a new mode of operation. »
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A real professional revolution and a real career change for this child of the PUC, who played and then trained young people and seniors in the capital club, winning in particular a Championship (2016) and a CEV European Cup , in 2014. And who announced his departure at the end of the season, on January 26.
In Tourcoing, Rougeyron will have to manage a first season of relocation – like for Paes this year -, the Léo-Lagrange hall undergoing a facelift in terms of ground level, lighting, sound system and public reception for September 2024. “Then we have to grow, rely on this tool to settle in the hierarchy and keep our best players”supports Lavallez, thinking strongly of his doublet of receivers-attackers, the German Moritz Reichert and the Canadian Ryley Barnes.
The site is open and the transition between the two technicians, while 99% of the TLM workforce is coming to the end of their contract, has already begun informally. “Things are going really well between us”ensures with the same voice, Paes and Rougeyron, the first having launched then accompanied the second at the beginning of his Parisian career, between 2007 and 2011. This Sunday afternoon, they will not be less rivals.
