Jean-Marc Kuentz leaves Rennes for the RC Strasbourg bench. - Stade Rennais

  • David Ducourtioux eager to go back to his family in Corsica, RC Strasbourg has found a new assistant to Thierry Laurey. This is Jean-Marc Kuentz, a well-known technician at the club.
  • The native of Colmar, who still officiates in Rennes this season, has already spent a long time with the Alsatian club. He was trained there, played there, ran the training center ... and has even been an assistant.
  • His mission with the pro group could only last one year. He wants to return to training afterwards. Unless Thierry Laurey continues the adventure ...

His exile lasted eight years. Having left RC Strasbourg in 2012, Jean-Marc Kuentz is back in Alsace. The 54-year-old technician will be one of Thierry Laurey's assistants next season. In a club he knows perfectly: he was trained there, played there, before becoming a reserve coach, head of the training center and ... already assistant to the professional team from 1997 to 2002. "D 'first alongside René Girard, then with Pierre Mankowski, Claude Leroy, Yvon Pouliquen and Yvan Hasek ”, he recalls.

The Colmar native knows this job very well. He also held it for the last three seasons at Stade Rennais, where he had arrived with Sabri Lamouchi. He also followed the former French international when he was Ivory Coast coach (2012-2014) and coach of the Qatari club El Jaish (2014-2015).

"I was scheduled to return to the training center"

"I always looked at what Racing was doing and today I still know a lot of people at the club", explains the man who still owns a house in Truchtersheim, around 20 km from the Alsatian capital. “Marc (Keller, president of the RCS) told me that the door would always be open to me. "

Jean-Marc Kuentz will therefore cross the threshold of Meinau this summer, not necessarily in the role he had imagined. “I couldn't expect David Ducourtioux (the current assistant) to go away for family reasons. I was scheduled to return to the training center. The opportunity to join the staff presented itself and I accepted it. "

For a fixed term. The current Stade Rennais employee insists: “You should never say never but it is for a year, no more. My contract is aligned with that of Thierry (Laurey). He also presented things to me like that and it suited me. My wish is then to return to the training with François (Keller, the director of the Mutest Academy). "

🖋️ Figure of the Strasbourg team, Jean-Marc #Kuentz leaves the @staderennais and returns to Racing. He will be one of Thierry #Laurey's assistants. Welcome back to Alsace Jean-Marc! ⤵️

- RC Strasbourg Alsace (@RCSA) May 16, 2020

This season already, the technician will be "in very close contact with the center". What will be its precise role with the pro group? "We had a phone call with Thierry (Laurey) on Monday, we will push the discussion later and I will learn to discover it professionally," he replies. We had rubbed shoulders during a training at Clairefontaine and we have seen each other several times. We know each other without knowing each other. They will soon have time to tame themselves. The resumption of the Alsatian club is scheduled for June 29.

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