Fabien Mercadal is the new coach of Quevilly-Rouen
Quevilly-Rouen-Métropole has its new trainer: the Ligue 2 club formalizes this Tuesday the arrival on its bench of Fabien Mercadal. The latter signs for a season and a half, with another optional season if maintained in Ligue 2.
Mercadal, 49, will have the heavy task of succeeding Bruno Irlès, whose transfer to Troyes was announced yesterday Monday. He had been without a club since Dunkirk had decided not to keep him, last May, despite being held down at the last minute by the northern workforce.
It is also in this same club, Dunkirk, that he began his coaching career, in 2012. The USLD was then in CFA (current National 2), and the coach will allow the workforce of the Opal Coast to reach the National from the following season. He finally remained 4 years in Dunkirk, before taking the direction of Tours, resident of Ligue 2.
A complicated experience in Ligue 1
But the experience came to an end, and Fabien Mercadal was sacked barely more than 6 months after his arrival. He then bounced back at Paris FC, still in Ligue 2. The experience is much more conclusive, the coach manages to hoist the Parisians to an unexpected 8th place for a promoted.
This season allows him to be spotted by a Ligue 1 club, in this case Caen, which recruits him in the 2018 offseason. But his record is more complicated: Only 10 victories in 43 official games managed. After a year, Malherbe separates from the man. Who then goes abroad, at the Cercle Brugge, in Belgium in this case. With, there too, more than mixed results: 10 victories for a single success.
And it is finally in Dunkirk, again, that Mercadal finds a bench, after several months of unemployment following his departure from Belgium. He will lead his first training session this Wednesday and will be well on the road this Saturday in Bastia.