This Monday, April 3 took place the first press conference of Pascal Dupraz as coach of Dijon. The opportunity for him to come back to the start of the club’s season and to display his objectives.
Pascal Dupraz is officially the new coach of Dijon Football Côte d’Or. This Monday, April 3 took place the presentation and his first conference as a coach. In a complicated situation in the league, currently relegated to National and 9 points from the first non-relegation player, the new coach insisted on the strength of positivity and hope to hope to quickly remobilize his group and keep the club in Ligue 2.
“Ever since I was born, I have always been optimistic throughout my life. Not blissfully optimistic, but I have always been optimistic. When I look at the DFCO situation, I wonder. see he’s 7 points down on the fold, and I know there are 9 games left to play, I don’t take the question of whether I have a 25, 10 or 2% chance of winning. maintain. I tell myself that we have a one in two chance of maintaining us. (…) There is the possibility”, affirmed the coach of Dijon.
An irreplaceable experience
By choosing Pascal Dupraz to maintain themselves, the Dijon leaders have chosen the experience of the final stretches for maintenance.
“I am one of those who have not always succeeded, who have always had complicated tasks, even if with Evian Thonon Gaillard, my favorite club, I still won matches to reach Ligue 1. For that, despite everything, I had to add a little knowledge of the field to the speech. I had this chance to succeed on several occasions, and sometimes I failed. Each time, I only have a desire, it was to leave”, evoked Pascal Dupraz.
A coach ready to start
In a race to maintain with the arrival of a new coach, the club will need to have results quickly, coach Dupraz has thus insisted on his study of the Dijon situation even before his arrival allowing him to quickly leave for the work :
“The extension of my passion is to watch football when there is it. I have often watched Dijon matches. And I am like you, I see that it is too easy to score goals at DFCO this season, and it’s very difficult to score. The ranking is relentless at this time of the year and situates the difficulties of a team. After 29 games, the ranking is 19th with 7 points behind the first non-relegation.”
The Dijon club also presented in a tweet the technical staff who will accompany Pascal Dupraz for his maintenance race:
The staff of Pascal Dupraz at @DFCO_Official ⤵️
– Assistant coach: Stéphane Bernard
– Physical trainer: Baptiste Hamid
– Goalkeeper coach: André Biancarelli
