Laurent Dufresne
Dufresne 2007 at Valenciennes
Laurent Dufresne ( born March 2, 1972 in Calais ) is a French former football player and current coach.
Playing career
Dufresne began to play football in his hometown at the Calais RUFC. In this he was a member since 1978 of the Youth Department, before 1988/89 the jump he succeeded in the season in the Drittligaelf of the association. In the course of the season, he drew attention to himself with 16 Torerfolgen, has been committed at the end of the U.S. professional club Valenciennes Anzin and absorbed directly into the cadres of Erstligamannschaft. Although he was initially not a regular player, but he could in his first season recorded eight inserts and a goal is scored in the top French league. However, he suffered in the same season relegation. As a result, received the team with Bruno Metsu a new coach, the Dufresne made for regular players. Despite its eight gates he experienced in his second year as a pro the second descent and came with his team since 1994 in the third division. On top of that coach Robert Dewilder did not expand on it. Therefore Dufresne completed in the next two years, only six third league games in which he scored six goals, however. Added to this was 1996, the relegation of the club in the fourth league, so he opted for a change to LB Châteauroux, who had risen to the second division.
In Châteauroux, he was the undisputed master player again and shot in his first season with 13 goals, which contributed to the rise in the first division. The 1997/98 season, however, meant straight back down, even if Dufresne was first represented as a regular in the top class and he scored six Torerfolge. He ran for three more years for the team on, with both their personal as well as his performances were solid, but not sufficient for the resurgence. In 2001, he signed with the AS Nancy to move up with this in the first division. His first season for Nancy was marked by a long injury break, so he wants to contest only 16 games and was able to achieve two goals. The target climb was missed in this as in the following seasons, even if Dufresne with 16 goals in 29 games in the season 2003/ 04 reached his personal best value. The following year, he succeeded with the team after four years in Nancy While the rise, but he opted for a change back to the now renamed FC Valenciennes club with which he started his professional career.
At the end of his first season he was in 2006 with the team that had previously been promoted to the second division, the return to the premier league celebrate, even if he no longer belonged to the solid core of players. At the same time he became the second consecutive second-division champion of France. After Dufresne had achieved in the 2006 /07 with Valenciennes in the league, he went back to Chateauroux. In the second division team, he was mainly a substitute and was able to achieve a single goal. Accordingly, in 2008 he decided at age 36 for a termination of his active career.
Coaching career
After his career end Dufresne returned a further time to Valenciennes, where he devoted himself as a youth coach the under -17 -year-olds. At the beginning of the season 2012/13 he was introduced as the new assistant coach of the first team alongside Daniel Sanchez, who works as a trainer in Valenciennes since 2011. In October 2013 he took over on an interim basis, the function of the head coach and returned to the obligation of Ariël Jacobs for this office in his role as his assistant back.