It was in the air for several days already, it is now official: Pierre Sage is the new coach of a RC Lens who after the 2024-2025 season recorded the premature departure of Will Still. For personal reasons and a rebound already acted in championship (2e English division), in Southampton.
This Monday evening, the Artesian club announced the news, validating the signature until 2028 of the former Lyon technician. A strategist which in Ligue 1 with OL was able to obtain very honorable results between November 2023 to January 2025: 23 victories, 7 draws and 11 defeats in 41 games directed in the elite.
A coach compatible with the DNA of the RC Lens
“” The arrival of Pierre Sage marks the foundation stone of the sports project that we want to build for the years to come. I am very happy to start this collaboration alongside himwelcomes Lensois sports director Jean-Louis Leca. From the start, we were convinced by his vision of the game, his working methodology and his ability to federate around a clear and ambitious project. Pierre embodies an approach to football based on management centered on humans, a desire to offer an offensive and pragmatic game, the collective mastery of the ball and a real ability to transmit his knowledge.
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“” At the end of a rigorous and structured selection process, led with Jean-Louis, the choice of stone naturally imposed itselfunderlines for its part in an official press release Benjamin Parrot, director general of Racing. Both on the sporting and human level, he fully embodies the DNA of the Racing Club of Lens. Its requirement, its ability to federate, its sense of the collective and its vision of training are in perfect adequacy with the values that lead us to know work, commitment, humility and transmission. We welcome him and are convinced that he will be able to wear the values of Racing high. »»
