Franck Azzopardi

Franck Azzopardi ( born December 5, 1970 in Chatellerault ) is a former French football player and later coach.

Playing career

Azzopardi was included in the youth department of the football club Chamois Niort 1983. The well-known for his combative style of play footballers managed during the 1989/90 season made ​​it into the second division team of the club. From then on he ran regularly for a team with which in 1991 he suffered relegation to the third division; However, this was followed a year later, the direct re-emergence. The professional team oriented regarded as able to strengthen in the second highest French league his place, where he was in the course of the season 1996/97 in all 38 games on the field. Over the years, he remained faithful to Niort and reached with the club always remaining in the second division until he could no longer thwart the descent 2005. In view of this, he decided in the same year at age 34 after 409 second league games for the club for an end to his career, without ever having competed in the top division; However, he secured the title of the record player of his club.

Coaching career

Directly after the end of his career, took over the former professional responsibility as coach of the under 16 year olds in Chamois Niort. In the summer of 2009, he was promoted to assistant coach of the first team and experienced as such a move from the fourth to the second division. This was followed in June 2013, a simplified internal mail exchange, was in consequence Azzopardi Head of the Youth Department of Niort.