Sonny Anderson Back To Lyon As Club Advisor

Written by Olaleye Oluwadamilola

Olympique Lyonnais has confirmed the return of former Brazilian striker Sonny Anderson to the club as he will be taking up the club advisor role as well as working with head coach Laurent Blanc.

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A prolific goal scorer, Anderson featured for Monaco, Lyon playing most of his abroad career in France with a total of 138 goals in 221 matches.

He also featured for Spanish giant, Barcelona and managed to amass six international caps for his country scoring just one goal in the process.

Anderson who finished his career in Qatar had previously returned to Lyon going on to work with the team’s strikers but left four years later to pursue a coaching career.

The new OL Group advisor spoke at his presentation’s press conference, along with Jean-Michel Aulas and Vincent Ponsot as culled from the club’s official website.

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“I am very happy, most people here know how much I love the club since 1999,” he spoke of his return.

“At 52, coming home to Olympique Lyonnais is a dream come true because we tend to say that the club is not good today, that’s true, but the club is still there with a lot of ambitions.”

“Today, we have to be patient, do positive work as it is important to be positive and give time for the work to be done. I have already spoken with Laurent Blanc and things are clear between him and me.”

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He further spoke on his role as an advisor; “As the President said, I’m here to advise on the evolution of teams. If I see things happening, on the side of the Academy or one of our other teams, I can anticipate it and help. As soon as I have the opportunity to travel, I will come and see the games.”

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What he will bring to OL; “When I came to coach the attackers, it wasn’t the club that made me leave, I left to develop a coaching career and it didn’t work. But everything I have experienced since then has allowed me to develop a vision of football.”

“I have a lot of love for the club and I want to help it go back to what it was before because I will have total freedom to say what is wrong without apprehension because this is the club I love and the people I love working with. I’m not worried, but I need time.”

“We are coming out of a good streak of games without losing, Auxerre’s accident means there is still more to improve. We lost that game in 10 minutes, Anderson said of the club’s current situation and the abysmal collapse to bottom placed Auxerre.

“Today there is a squad, very young who worked to finish the season well. We qualified for a French Cup quarter-final against Grenoble and we can still qualify for a European Cup.”

“Nothing is lost, you just have to see the positive side. Mentally, everyone is fine. We also saw that many fans came to Auxerre. I am positive about how this season is going to end.”

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