The former sports director of Lausanne-Sport is preparing to hold a key role in the future organization chart of the Valais club. Its specifications will be expanded.
Pablo Iglesias was sports director of LS between 2018 and 2020. He had to leave his post shortly before the “transfer” from the Vaudois club to La Tuilière.
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Expected this weekend in Zurich by Grasshopper, FC Sion has not yet ensured its maintenance in the Super League. Under the threat of a return from FC Lucerne, which they will meet three days later at Tourbillon, the Valais club absolutely needs a positive result (ideally a victory) this Sunday at Letzigrund.
If the priority of the moment is above all sporting, this does not prevent the Sédunois leaders from already planning for the preparation of the 2022-2023 season. This of course concerns the contingent and the staff – we already know that coach Paolo Tramezzani will always be there -, but also the establishment of a new structure following the joint departures of Vice-President Gelson Fernandes (who is preparing to join FIFA as head of football development in Africa) and general manager Massimo Cosentino, who had recently cited family reasons for leaving the post he had held since last summer at Porte d’Octodure.
Cosentino is present in Marseille
According to several sources, the manager is now preparing to bounce back on the Canebière where he is expected to be secretary general of OM, a position which was already his at Inter Milan before his short stint in Valais…
At Tourbillon, the new organization chart will reserve pride of place for Pablo Iglesias. At 51, the former sports director of LS – he had been between February 2018 and June 2020 before having to give way to Souleymane Cissé – will oversee the football structure, including both the training sector and the first team. . Already very involved in its future activities, Iglesias should also have free rein to carry out its policy, established in concert with its new leaders.
While his name has been circulating for several weeks, the announcement of his official appointment has nevertheless been delayed for a few weeks. Because his team is not definitively out of the swell, Christian Constantin does not intend to reverse the order of priorities. “The No. 1 objective at the minute, he said, is to get out of the risk of being a play-off. When we have reached it, we will continue with announcements.
“Pablo will join FC Sion. He will have a very expanded role. I don’t take him as a pizza maker!”
The boss of FC Sion, however, already confirms the scheduled arrival of the former coach of the Swiss M20s. “Pablo will join FC Sion, continues Constantin. He will have a very expanded role. I don’t take him as a pizza maker! He will be the central character of a new cycle.
Before sketching out plans for the comet, the Valais club must first and foremost earn the points guaranteeing its presence in the Super League. After two successive defeats, this is going through a solid reaction this Sunday in Zurich…