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Friday, June 10, 2011

Houllier will stop

Aston Villa will have to find a new coach for next season. The French manager Gerard Houllier, 63, decided to quit the Birmingham club by mutual agreement with its leaders. Suffered a heart attack in late April, the former national technical director of the FFF would feel more able to lead a team to that level.
When alerts are increasing, there is urgency. Gerard Houllier's health, fragile late April when he suffered a cardiac arrest, became so serious that it has become essential for him to sixty-three, to take a step back compared to land English. According to the Birmingham Mail on Tuesday, the French manager will no longer be on the bench at Aston Villa next season.

A reasoned decision by reading the latest medical tests and he spent making a mutual agreement with its leaders, who should formalize the new in twenty-four hours. Arrived in September to replace Martin O'Neill, and return of sensation he had not experienced since leaving Lyon in 2007, Gerard Houllier had committed until 2013 for what was supposed to be, without doubt, last challenge of his coaching career.

Makoun and Pires for nothing

"From Lyon, it started to itch,"he said at the time on RTL. I had other proposals, but this one seemed like the best. "But neither his good will, or the arrival of club players like Jean Makoun and Robert Pires have enabled Villans finish beyond the ninth place in the Premier League. A failure for a team of ambitious and Aston Villa for Gerard Houllier, whose choices have often been criticized. The pressure had become too heavy to bear, especially for a man who in 2001 already had undergone surgery, heart while leading Liverpool. Absent the last matches of the season, the former technical director of the French Football Federation has, for good, perhaps, did his time on the benches. At least at this level of demand there.

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