Julien Sablé (born 11 September 1980) is a French professional

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manager. In his playing days as a

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, he represented France at youth international level.

Club career

Sablé began his career at

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

, 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

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. Sablé later earned the

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's armband at Saint-Étienne. In 2007, he signed a contract with

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. In January 2009, he joined

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in October 2012, before retiring at the end of the following season, the same day as Mickaël Landreau.

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

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. 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,

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, and

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as manager. In December 2021, Sablé once again became Saint-Étienne's interim manager, this time following the dismissal of Puel. 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

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. On 12 December 2022, Sablé became the manager of

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side Nice B. After

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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

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, 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

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match against

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, and was listed as the manager on the match sheet to oblige by the rules.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Saint-Étienne *

: 1999–2000, 2003–04 Lens * Ligue 2: 2008–09 *

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runner-up: 2007–08 France U21 *

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runner-up:

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Individual * UNFP Ligue 2

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: 2003–04

References

External links

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France U-16 season 1995–96
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