Robert Herbin, emblematic trainer of the great era of AS Saint-Etienne, has been hospitalized since Tuesday at the CHU de Saint-Etienne for serious heart and lung failure, we learned on Saturday from concordant sources.
His state of health is unrelated to the Covid-19 epidemic.
Found very weak by the emergency services
Aged 81, Herbin led the Stéphane team for 14 seasons, from 1972 to 1983 then from 1987 to 1990. The Greens notably owe him their epic European Cup champion clubs in 1976, ended with a defeat in the famous final of the "square posts".
Withdrawn for several years from his house on the heights of Etrat (Loire), he would have been found very weakened by the emergency services warned by his sister, without news of him. “He is currently in good hands in a very efficient department at the North Hospital and medicine is doing its work. We hope that he will get better in the coming days, "one of his relatives hoped with AFP.
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Robert Herbin presents the biggest prize list in French football, acquired only under the colors of ASSE where he arrived in the summer of 1957 from the Cavigal in Nice.
He was nine times French champion, five times as a player and four as a coach, and six times winner of the French Cup, three in each role. Midfielder then defender, he was international with the Blues (23 selections), participating in particular in the World Cup in 1966 in England.
Robert Herbin has also coached, with less success, Lyon (1983-1985), Al Nasr Ryad (Saudi Arabia, 1985-1986), Strasbourg (1986-1987) and the Red Star (1991-1995).
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