He will lead the team for the 2022-2023 season.
“He is a reassuring coach. He wants to come for the history of the club, the room and the public, “says Vincent Bergeret.
He had been approached to replace the German Sebastian Machowski when the latter was dismissed by the club’s management. But the former coach of Bourg en Bresse, who had decided to go green in Montenego for a year, had finally refused. He will not finally have to wait long for him to agree to sign up for the 2022-2023 season. This is what Vincent Bergret, the President of Elan Chalon announced Monday afternoon at a press conference.
“We are recruiting a coach who knows Pro B and Pro A very well,” said Vincent Bergeret, President of Elan Chalon. And to recall his prize list from Cholet to Bourg en Bresse, via Belgium, Antibes, Monaco… “I remind you that in Bourg he took the club to Pro B and that he brought it up to Pro A”.
Why now ? “He had wanted to take a break and take a sabbatical year”.
Of course, there is the question of cumulative failures
As the season ends, and despite qualifying for the playoffs, it has not met expectations, many supporters have been asking the same question for more years: Why? “Pro B is not Pro A. I found this league less technical, but more physical. Did we have two or three good players. We have good players, but not two or three who stand out,” notes Vincent Bergeret.
Rémy Delpon adds: “In 2012, after the title, we benefited from the Euro League. We always had 30% of trained players.
In 2017, it was no longer that, no longer the same generations. We let go of players like Gédéon Pitard who had to be kept. We didn’t give the young people confidence, we got the DNA wrong.
For the 2018/2019 season, we were on to something else. We took referenced players. But that doesn’t make a team.
Then we tried to change, to go for something else. We lacked serenity and demand. Players who do not identify themselves.
Last season, we had 15 chances to save the season. We don’t get hurt. It’s working well on the side, the finances are healthy, the marketing is going well. The room works well. And unfortunately there is a gap with the athlete.
And Rémy Delpon to ask himself: “Are we too nice and not demanding enough?”
The arrival of Savo Vusevic sounds to connoisseurs like a very good pickaxe.
“I really want to take up the challenge. There will be a soul and an identity on the ground,” he told the management of Elan Chalon.
“He is close to his players and very demanding. He has always had convincing results. He is a reassuring coach. He wants to come for the history of the club, the room and the public, a basketball public”, adds Vincent Bergeret, who also confides what the future coach launched: “You have a club which should never have gone down and a rare venue and audience in France”.
You just have to take the mayonnaise and let it rise. Easier said than done. But Vusevic is stubborn!
