2023-08-31 18:00:00
Today Thursday, AS Saint-Étienne and Florian Tardieu initialed a contract binding them for the next 2 seasons, with an option for an additional third season. The midfielder, having more than 320 professional matches and a title of French Ligue 2 BKT Champion 2021, joins the Saint-Etienne workforce. Fifth recruit of the Loire transfer window, he will wear the number 5 of the Greens.
Native of Istres, it is for the Youth Sportive Istréenne that Florian Tardieu pushes his first balloons. After three seasons for this club from the Provençal metropolis, he joined FC Istres in 2001. There, he began his training and regularly wears the armband of the youth teams. Member of the reserve team, he is called to compensate for a package in the workforce of Ligue 2 in training. A chance that he does not miss. His activity as well as his reading of the game and his ability to direct it thanks to the accuracy of his passes led him to sign a professional contract in 2012.
After three seasons, 61 Ligue 2 games and 8 goals with his first professional club, the defensive midfielder was relegated to National in 2014. He then decided to leave his native Provence to join FC Sochaux. After four seasons (2014-2018) with more than 30 L2 matches and a Coupe de France semi-final, the right-hander left Doubs and joined Zulte Waregem, in Belgium. But following a convincing first half of the season, his adventure with the Flemings will not be rosy. Unhappy in the Jupiler Pro League, he will smile once more under the orders of Laurent Batlles in Ligue 2 BKT. And how !
Recruited by ESTAC in 2019, the player expands his midfield panoply and becomes the hub of the Trojan midfield. Captain of the formation led by Laurent Batlles and author of 34 matches, 6 goals and 4 assists, he is rewarded for his 2020-2021 exercise by a place in the typical team of the season and, above all, a rise in the League. 1 Uber Eats. He will play 45 games there in two years before returning to the lower level last May.
From now on, it is under the colors of AS Saint-Étienne and once more under the leadership of Laurent Batlles that Florian Tardieu will tread the lawns of Ligue 2 BKT with ambition. Welcome Florian!
Florian Tardieu: “I am very happy to join this mythical club. I can’t wait to play my first minutes under his colors, to get to know this audience. I will give 300%, bring my grinta and my experience to this group. I really want to play, I can’t wait for that!“
Laurent Batlles, ASSE coach: “He is a player who knows Ligue 2 BKT perfectly and who will bring us his experience and his benchmarks. He has enormous qualities in the game. He will be an integral part of the project, bringing a different profile to the group.“
Florian Tardieu’s “Green Future” commitment
As part of its “Vert l’Avenir” CSR approach, AS Saint-Étienne offers each of its employees, including its players, the opportunity to commit to one of the four areas of its ASSE Cœur-Vert association: Environment, Citizenship, Sport for All and Health.
Sensitive to the theme of sports for all, Florian Tardieu will participate this season in actions related to this subject.
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