Bordeaux (AFP)
Portuguese coach Girondins de Bordeaux Paulo Sousa announced Thursday to executives in his locker room his departure, we learned from a source close to the club, confirming information from RMC Sport.
In office since March 2019, the 49-year-old technician, who led the training session Thursday morning at the Haillan, said during the season asking questions about the governance of the club, managed by the American fund King Street.
The record of the former double winner of the Champions League at the head of the Girondins is hardly flattering. In 42 directed matches, he had only 13 times the victory, for 12 draws and 17 defeats and his team was classified 12th at the beginning of March at the end of the competition due to pandemic.
Despite a contract until June 2022, the announcement of the departure of Sousa, which comes ten days after the resumption of training for Bordeaux residents, brings out again the crisis that is brewing in Haillan, exacerbated by the conflict between the Ultramarines, the main group of supporters, and management.
The day after his election, the new mayor of Bordeaux, the environmentalist Pierre Hurmic who is to take office on Friday, had asked King Street to part with Frédéric Longuépée.
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