• Angers-Lille (1-2), Sunday evening, was Stéphane Moulin's last match at the SCO.

  • Aged 53, the tireless coach spent ten years on the Angevin bench.

  • He will be replaced by Gérald Baticle, assistant to Rudi Garcia in Lyon.

From our special correspondent in Angers

The news fell in the early evening on Sunday: Gérald Baticle, assistant coach of Rudi Garcia in Lyon, will be the next coach of Sco d'Angers next season. He will replace the inevitable Stéphane Moulin who, after ten years and 416 games spent on the Angevin bench, had let it be known that he was stopping there. The latter appeared very touched Sunday evening, after his last meeting and the success of Lille (2-1) at the Raymond-Kopa stadium which allows the Northerners to win the title of champion of France.

“I feel a lot of emotion,” says Stéphane Moulin.

It is a page that is turned.

We could have done better, we could have done more, but everything can be improved.

The team has advanced each season, despite losing our best players at the end of each year.

Life is made of cycles.

A 10-year lease is exceptional.

I thank the leaders, my staff.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the supporters.

Their support over the past few days has been incredible.

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"I'm leaving but the Angers slab is still in me"

Stéphane Moulin was, once is not custom, surrounded by all of his deputies at a press conference, on the night from Sunday to Monday. “It's a beautiful moment, a beautiful moment. Now we will leave the place. I leave with this piece of life in me but the Angevin stone is still there in me ”. Will he bounce back in another club at 53? “Yes, it's my will, our will [with his staff]. But we are not responsible for everything. ”

As for his successor, Gérald Baticle: “I just wish him a safe journey, a lot of success.

He is competent enough to know what to do.

I do not doubt the continuity of the evolution of the club.

Former star striker of AJ Auxerre or Strasbourg, Baticle had only one (short) experience as a head coach, in 2009 with Brest, then in Ligue 2.

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