Rugby. David Mélé leaves the SOC to join the staff of Toulouse (Top 14)!
David Mélé will leave SO Chambéry and join the staff of Stade Toulousain (Top 14), confirmation of information from Midi-Olympic. The former scrum half / opener (and scorer) from Toulouse, Perpignan and Grenoble, who arrived in the 2021-2022 off-season to take charge of the back lines and the work of the scorers of the National Savoyarde club, should take care of from the resumption of the Stade Toulousain hopes season and also work, alongside Ugo Mola and his staff, by being in charge of individual work with the Toulouse three-quarters.
“He is very sorry to leave us, but it’s hard to refuse a proposal when it comes from the best club in the world! “. Even the manager of SO Chambéry (Nationale) Cyril Villain fought against bad luck… “It’s also the world of professional rugby, everything goes fast”.
Everything was indeed set for the resumption, next Monday, of training in Chambéry, with Cyril Villain still at the helm, David Mélé, and the replacement for Julien Brugnaut to corner the forwards, the former Argentinian international pillar Juan Pablo Orlandi, who took care of the hopes of Bayonne last season.
A track more than advanced to replace it
David Mélé had confirmed it to us before the summer break. He had no desire to start, was integrated into the Chambéry project, which aimed to develop a game of movement, but also to develop young players by stabilizing the workforce over the next two to three years.
But “a fortnight ago”, confirms Cyril Villain, the most successful club in France made a foot appeal to the former Leicester player (2013-2015), whom he had taken charge of, in 2019 , the training center. His first experience as a young coach. Chambéry will have been the second stage, finally short and abridged.
But the coach of the back lines of the SOC, with his know-how and his aura with the young talented three-quarters recruited by the SOC, will have won a successful season under the leadership of the new staff Villain-Mélé-Brugnaut for the club Savoyard, concluded with a 5e place in the regular phase and elimination in the play-offs in Albi on May 15 (39-30).
Totally turned upside down last offseason, the SOC suffered a last minute upheaval, but would follow an already very advanced track to find its replacement and continue its project. Hurry up. The players of the 2022-2023 workforce and the staff must leave for a cohesion internship on Friday 1uh July for two days, and the resumption of contact with the field is fixed for Monday July 4th.