2023-08-28 16:58:00
FREE MIDI INFO. At the end of his contract with Montpellier Handball at the end of this 2023-2024 season, the historic coach and manager Patrice Canayer has decided not to continue the adventure, it’s the end of a world.
On the scale of European handball in general and Montpellier sport in particular, it is a real earthquake. At the end of the contract next June with the MHB, Patrice Canayer decided to leave the stage, as he announced exclusively to Midi Libre and the newspaper L’Equipe. Thirty years following coming down from the capital to change the destiny of a club champion of… D2 (1992).
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Departure of Patrice Canayer: “It was time to say stop”, announces the coach with 42 titles with Montpellier
At the dawn of its last season, the trophy room is puking from all sides: 42 titles in total including two Champions Leagues (2003, 2018) and fourteen stars of French champions won before the arrival of the Qataris in Paris.
“It was time to say stop. After 30 extraordinary, exhilarating years. It’s a magnificent story. I might never have imagined having such a beautiful professional history,” he insists. Patrice Canayer chose his exit and almost no one saw him coming.
Deljarry: “Even if we were preparing for this day, it’s not easy”
Since Monday 7 p.m., all employees (administrative and players) have been informed. Julien Deljarry learned the news at the end of July. “Even if we were preparing for this day, it’s not easy, testifies the president. I would have preferred that he give us a little more time to prepare the rest.”
What followed was a forced search for a new technician. The lucky winner will not have the double role of coach-manager, Julien Deljarry reserving the managerial part for the moment.
Several agents in confidence have been working for a few days on a landmark estate. No one is irreplaceable, you say, but some are more difficult. Ask the unfortunates who tried to forget Alex Ferguson, 27 at Manchester United, or Guy Roux, 44 at Auxerre.
The false start in Barcelona
Going past “la Canaye” is like trying to climb Everest in sneakers. The probability of succeeding is slim even if his CV is full. In Montpellier, the Nîmes – it can not be invented – 62 years old, did (done) everything. This is what he was sometimes reproached for.
But no one, on the other hand, has ever questioned his technical skills. Crowned best coach in the world in 2018, he has always scored with the “Goats” (Greatest of all time, greatest of all time) of this sport.
Announced many times as coach of a country, he especially failed to sign in Barcelona in 2003, following the first European coronation of the MHB. The case was in the bag and everything finally fell apart for a dark story of egos. Another case came to shake up the statue of commander, in 2012, when half of his team saw fit to bet on the score of a match at halftime.
cow love
“Danger always comes from within,” he said then. “That’s why I always made the difference between the team and the club.” That he announces his departure three days following that of Nikola Karabatic is quite ironic.
With his players, it’s often cow love. No question of making friend-friend. “I’m not here for that,” he asserts. And love stories usually end badly: Andrej Golic, Grégory Anquetil and especially Michaël Guigou all paid dearly to learn it. De Canayer, Guigou will regret the lack of “humanity”.
“The eternal team does not exist”, echoed his coach for more than twenty years. For a few hours, we know that Patrice Canayer is not either.
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