Stade Brestois head coach Eric Roy has passed away at 58, his family has announced in a statement. After a decade-long break from management, Roy joined the Bretons in 2023. Despite operating on a shoestring budget, he led Brest to the 2024-2025 Champions League campaign after an exceptional Ligue 1 season, in which Brest finished third. This achievement secured him the Ligue 1 Manager of the Season award in 2024.
Roy was battling pancreatic cancer since three-and-a-half years and kept his health issue a secret from the public. “For all this time, he kept living with a strength that continue to impress us, carried by his family’s love, by football and the passion he never let go of.”
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As a player, Roy had a long career as a defensive midfielder, with spells at Marseille, Lyon and Sunderland in the 90’s. Roy also embraced a career in management at OGC Nice, RC Lens and Watford. He also tried his hand at punditry.
Eric Roy was a deeply popular figure within French football, and he will be sorely missed. To his relatives, his close ones, his family, friends and the whole community of Stade Brestois fans, GFFN express their deepest condolences.
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