Away from football since leaving the sporting director’s post at Paris Saint-Germain, former Brazilian footballer Leonardo can return to work in France.
According to French newspaper L’Équipe, the Brazilian is one of the names considered by Lyon’s board to take over the team if their coach Hubert Fournier is dismissed. The club are currently going through a poor period in Ligue 1 and haven’t won in the last four rounds, including three defeats. In the previous match, Lyon lost 2-0 at home to Angers and fell to fifth place in the league table. Fournier begins to be questioned, and the club president Jean-Michel Aulas, has already started looking for a replacement. Leonardo is one of the three names being analysed by the club, and former Borussia Mönchengladbach manager Lucien Favre is also on the list, according to the report. What weighs against Leonardo is the conflict he had with the French Football Federation, as he was suspended for a year in 2013 for allegedly pushing the referee Alexandre Castro, during PSG’s game against Valenciennes. He was the director of PSG between 2011 and 2013, and left the Parisian club following the suspension.
Away from football since leaving the sporting director’s post at Paris Saint-Germain, former Brazilian footballer Leonardo can return to work in France.
According to French newspaper L’Équipe, the Brazilian is one of the names considered by Lyon’s board to take over the team if their coach Hubert Fournier is dismissed. The club are currently going through a poor period in Ligue 1 and haven’t won in the last four rounds, including three defeats. In the previous match, Lyon lost 2-0 at home to Angers and fell to fifth place in the league table. Fournier begins to be questioned, and the club president Jean-Michel Aulas, has already started looking for a replacement. Leonardo is one of the three names being analysed by the club, and former Borussia Mönchengladbach manager Lucien Favre is also on the list, according to the report. What weighs against Leonardo is the conflict he had with the French Football Federation, as he was suspended for a year in 2013 for allegedly pushing the referee Alexandre Castro, during PSG’s game against Valenciennes. He was the director of PSG between 2011 and 2013, and left the Parisian club following the suspension.
