a “great servant” OL and Rhone football have left us. The club with the seven French championship titles reacted to the disappearance of René Duplessy via a communicated published yesterday on its site. “René was passionate about football, training and the club. […] He has surveyed all the land in the region for many, many decades. Everyone knew his face, his good humor, his joie de vivre and many generations, passed through the OL training center, can say thank you. “
An unparalleled talent scout
An amateur footballer who passed through Villefranche and Limonest, he taught technology at the Elsa-Triolet College in Vénissieux. It is thanks to this function that he crossed paths with OL in the 1980s. Assigned to the supervision of young players aged 7 to 15 in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes League within the seven-title club champion of France, he is at the origin of (very) great discoveries: “The arrivals at the training center of Florian Maurice, Ludovic Giuly or Anthony Mounier, for example, are largely his.”
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