Media365 editorial staff, published Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 11:05 am
Burkinabe international goalkeeper Hervé Koffi, who left for Charleroi this summer, regrets never having had his chance at LOSC.
Left definitively this summer for Charleroi, Hervé Koffi returned at length in an interview with Sport/Foot Magazine on his thwarted relationship with LOSC, where the Burkinabé goalkeeper never really had his chance. “I’ve never talked about it before, but today I’ll be clear. Clearly, the way things ended with Lille makes me want to prove to them how wrong they were about me, loose the native of Bobo-Dioulasso. To understand the feeling that inhabits me, you should know that before I left for Mouscron, it was agreed with Luis Campos (then director of recruitment) and Gérard Lopez (then president) that at the end of my loan, s ‘he was convincing and that Mike Maignan left as planned, I will come back to Lille as number 1. ”
LOSC betrayed its trust
After having resigned at the end of July 2020 a new contract until 2024, Hervé Koffi (24 years old) will find himself blocked by the LOSC while Dijon requested it. “It hit me hard, but the official speech at that point was that the club still believed in me. The problem is that in the process, as everyone had felt, Luis Campos and Gérard Lopez left. Finally, at the end of March, I was contacted by the new management via President Olivier Létang, to tell me that I could find me a new club in the summer. I remember it was just after a match with Burkina, I was in Uganda for the African Cup qualifiers. Somehow I was expecting this outcome, but still, that night, I can tell you that I slept badly. “
Approached by Brest then Troyes, Hervé Koffi finally found refuge in Charleroi. “Initially, I was not convinced I wanted to stay one more season in Belgium, but there, when I heard about the project around the club, the ambitions, I immediately hooked”, adds the goalkeeper of Stallions, finally ready to write a new page in his career.
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