Raymond Domenech, who took over from Christian Gourcuff as FC Nantes coach, led his first training on Wednesday, December 30. It all started normally. The players started jogging to start the session. Then around 10:30 am, supporters, visibly unhappy with the management of the club, came to make their voices heard. Spillovers on the outskirts of the field which disturbed the peace of mind of the training, but of which Raymond Domenech was not really the primary target. The supporters attacked President Waldemar Kita by broadcasting a soundtrack to denounce the “Kita Circus”.
Raymond Domenech, who has not coached since the Knysna fiasco at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, left the management of the day’s session to Cyril Moine, physical trainer for FC Nantes. He was standing back, in discussion with his new assistants, and seemed to appreciate the calm of Jonelière, while Robert Duverne, former physical trainer of the France team who arrived with him for this six-month mission, already pointed out the casual look of some players during jogging.
Tense exchanges between midfielder Abdoulaye Touré and supporters
Then some supporters, members of the Loire Brigade, arrived with their sound system on the road next to the training center. Against the backdrop of a circus show soundtrack, they disturbed the players’ recovery and Domenech’s debut for several minutes. “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Kita Circus, the Kita Circus brings you amazing new numbers, ”the voice shouts into the speaker. And to continue on this ironic tone without sparing the new coach: “Raymond Domenech will explain his vision of football to us, enough to make us laugh for the next weekends. “
They also made fun of their players, sixteenth in Ligue 1 with only three points ahead of the first relegation: “And finally the Kita Circus offers you its traditional animal number, in fact eleven goats will be arranged everywhere on a green rectangle and will have to pass a ball, exclusively at the Kita Circus, a show that has lasted thirteen years, for young and old alike. “
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The tone is a little mounted between players and supporters. Midfielder Abdoulaye Touré had to be retained by his teammates not to go and explain himself to the protesters. Surrounded by two bodyguards, Waldemar Kita came at the end of the session on the field to meet with the players in front of the entire staff.
