After ten seasons with En Avant Guingamp as player and assistant Thibault Giresse decided to take on a new challenge. The former Costa Rican player has signed with Frédéric Bompard for Nîmes Olympique. Despite his departure, the former assistant of Stéphane Dumont will remain an emblematic player of the EAG with which he won the Coupe de France in 2009. In an interview with TelegramThibault Giresse returns to the circumstances of his departure in the Gard.
“I had kept in contact with Fred Bompard (appointed to the post of coach of Nîmes). Our six months together at Guingamp, when he took over the team, had gone very well. to be head coach. As soon as things got become clearer in Nîmes, he asked me. I answered positively quite quickly because I was reaching the end of my contract in June and I was uncertain about the future. . It also allowed me to project myself into something else. Becoming first deputy, I signed up for a year and a half, like him. Times aren’t ideal but that’s how it went,” admits the 41-year-old coach who, however, will find his old team back sooner than expected when Ligue 2 resumes on 26 December:
“When I leave Plérin and the kilometers will pass, the road will be long, I’ll do my thirteen and a half seasons again. Guingamp is the club where I’ve spent the most time. But leaving was inevitable. I didn’t know the ‘when’. He’s coming now. In Nîmes I have the opportunity to prove myself, to see something else.
