A former Blue arrives in Lorient

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

FC Lorient announced this Thursday the return of Laurent Koscielny.

After making the club talk by recruiting Benjamin Mendy, freshly cleared after being accused of several sexual assaults, FC Lorient announced this Thursday the return of Laurent Koscielny. Not as a player – the former international having hung up his boots a year ago – but as assistant coach of the U17s.

“We are very attached to this region”

“The former central defender is now back with Les Merlus. As assistant coach of the U17s, Laurent Koscielny rediscovers a region, a city, a club: ‘the day we decided, with my wife, to come back to Brittany, I called Benjamin Genton to discuss my project. And see if it could match between the club and me. He immediately told me that it would be a great pleasure for me to come back to the club. I return to a club, as I left it in 2010, family, healthy. Here, all people like each other. It looks like Brittany’s personality. We are very attached to this region. wrote the Hakes in a press release.

Laurent Koscielny played a season at FC Lorient, between 2009 and 2010, before joining Arsenal, which then allowed him to know the French team. a jersey struck by the rooster that he will have defended 51 times (1 goal).