Julien Sablé

French football manager (born 1980)

Julien Sablé
Sablé with Saint-Étienne in 2006
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-09-11) 11 September 1980 (age 43)[1]
Place of birth Marseille, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Nice (Manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2007 Saint-Étienne 303 (9)
2007–2009 Lens 28 (0)
2009–2012 Nice 90 (0)
2012–2014 Bastia 44 (0)
Total 465 (9)
International career
1995–1996 France U16 6 (0)
1996–1997 France U17 4 (0)
2002 France U21 3 (0)
Managerial career
2015–2016 Saint-Étienne B
2016–2017 Saint-Étienne U19
2017 Saint-Étienne (interim)
2017–2021 Saint-Étienne (assistant)
2021 Saint-Étienne (interim)
2021–2022 Saint-Étienne (assistant)
2022–2023 Nice B
2023 Nice (assistant)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  France
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Runner-up 2002 Switzerland
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Julien Sablé (born 11 September 1980) is a French professional football manager. In his playing days as a midfielder, he represented France at youth international level.

Club career

Sablé began his career at Saint-Étienne, where he made his first team debut in the 1997–98 season. He became an integral member of the club the following season, when they earned promotion to Ligue 1. Sablé later earned the captain's armband at Saint-Étienne. In 2007, he signed a contract with Lens. In January 2009, he joined Nice, where he would eventually become club captain.[3][4] He joined Bastia in October 2012,[5] before retiring at the end of the following season,[6] the same day as Mickaël Landreau.[citation needed]

Managerial career

In December 2017, Sablé, who had been working as Saint-Étienne's under-19 coach, stepped in as the club's interim head coach following the departure of Óscar García. He managed six games, with a record of two draws and four losses, before being replaced by Jean-Louis Gasset.[7] Sablé took up the post of assistant manager at the club after Gasset's arrival, and remained as an assistant throughout the spells of Gasset, Ghislain Printant, and Claude Puel as manager.[8] In December 2021, Sablé once again became Saint-Étienne's interim manager, this time following the dismissal of Puel.[9] After Pascal Dupraz was appointed, Sablé returned to his post of assistant. He left Saint-Étienne at the end of the 2022–23 season, with the club suffering relegation to Ligue 2.[10]

On 12 December 2022, Sablé became the manager of Championnat National 3 side Nice B.[11] After Lucien Favre was sacked, he was promoted to assistant manager for Nice's first team, under the direction of Didier Digard, formerly the assistant coach. Since Digard initially did not have his UEFA Pro License, UEFA rules prevented him from carrying out the usual pre-match press conference duties held by the manager in UEFA competitions. Sablé, as assistant, completed the press conference instead of Digard ahead of a UEFA Europa Conference League match against Sheriff Tiraspol, and was listed as the manager on the match sheet to oblige by the rules.[12]

Managerial statistics

As of 17 December 2017
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Saint-Étienne 15 November 2017 20 December 2017 6 0 2 4 4 16 −12 000.00
Total 6 0 2 4 4 16 −12 000.00

Honours

Player

Saint-Étienne

Lens

France U21

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Julien Sablé". Soccerway. Global Sports Media. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  2. ^ "Julien Sablé". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 23 December 2011.
  3. ^ "La fiche de Julien Sablé". OGC Nice (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Foot Mercato : Info Transferts Football – Actu Foot Transfert".
  5. ^ "Julien Sablé va s'engager" (in French). sc-bastia.net. 7 October 2012. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Julien Sablé raccroche les crampons" (in French). sc-bastia.net. 9 May 2014. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  7. ^ a b c d e Julien Sablé at FootballDatabase.eu
  8. ^ "Claude Puel officiellement nommé entraîneur et manager général de Saint-Étienne". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  9. ^ "Julien Sablé (Saint-Étienne) : « Je me sens légitime à cette place »". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  10. ^ "Julien Sablé quitte Saint-Étienne huit ans après son retour". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  11. ^ "Julien Sablé nommé entraîneur de la réserve de Nice". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  12. ^ "UEFA rules prevent Nice manager Didier Digard from attending press conference - Get French Football News". 15 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

External links

  • Julien Sablé – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
  • France U-16 season 1995–96
  • France U-17 season 1996–97
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