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Volleyball: after 42 years at the club, Pascal Foussard begins his last season in Tours

Player, coach, manager, sports director then deputy general director (his current title) of TVB, Pascal Foussard will leave after 42 years of good and loyal service a club that he raised to the top of French volleyball.

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Volleyball: after 42 years at the club, Pascal Foussard begins his last season in Tours

Player, coach, manager, sports director then deputy general director (his current title) of TVB, Pascal Foussard will leave after 42 years of good and loyal service a club that he raised to the top of French volleyball. “I feel that the desire and the motivation have faded a little since the double which represented a form of accomplishment”, declared to AFP Foussard, 62 years old, and who had planned his departure “for four years” at the end of the coming season. The squad was remodeled after the departures for the lucrative Polish championship of Pierre Derouillon, Benjamin Diez (Belchatow) and Luciano Palonsky (Lviv, a Ukrainian club which plays in the Polish championship), as well as that of Dmytro Teryomenko (Dnipropetrovsk). With the exception of the last one, these departures were suffered, the TVB unable to align itself financially, especially after being deprived of some 150,000 euros in public subsidies, 90% of which came from the region.

To replace them, TVB (which has three fewer professional contracts in its workforce this season) has mainly relied on young French people, some of whom are knocking on the door of the Blues (Antoine Pothron, Luca Ramon). “We didn’t take young people for the sake of taking young people and French people for the sake of taking French people. We tried to Frenchize by taking talented young people, for the future since they signed up for two or three years. It’s interesting and it perpetuates the club,” underlines Foussard.

The victory in the French Supercup last Friday (3-1 against Chaumont) shows that this TVB, which has retained executives like Zeljko Coric, Aboubacar Dramé and Michael Parkinson, remains competitive. According to Foussard, his objective is “to win a title, the Coupe de France or the Championship”. The Tourangeaux will have as their main rival Chaumont, who lost his passer Raphaël Corre, who left for Montpellier, or Nantes-Rezé, second in the last regular season under the orders of Hubert Henno and who retained the Brazilian Chizoba Neves, MVP of the League A 2022-2023.

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