{"id":19615,"date":"2023-08-17T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=19615"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:16:13","slug":"keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Keiser Podcast \u2013 Damien Comolli and Toulouse FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- blocks\/hero-editorial -->\n<!-- inc\/hero-editorial -->\n<div class=\"hero es-hero__editorial hero--var-1\" role=\"banner\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__image\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/GettyImages-1486750269-scaled.jpg);\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__overlay grad-overlay content-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content\">\n                    \n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__content__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t                            <p class=\"es-label es-label--md\">\n                                17 Aug 2023                            <\/p>\n                        \t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\" class=\"theme-dark hero__back-link back-link es-label es-label--sm\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"icon icon--md icon--arrow-left\"><\/span>Podcasts<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"hero__title\">Keiser Podcast \u2013 Damien Comolli and Toulouse FC<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n        \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <section class=\"es-section theme-light hero__sidebar-wrapper container\">\n        <div class=\"hero__sidebar\">\n                            <div class=\"category-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Category<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/category\/leadership-culture-performance\/\" rel=\"tag\">Leadership &amp; Culture<\/a>                <\/div>\n                            <div class=\"share-list\">\n                  <div class=\"es-label es-label--sm\">Share<\/div>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc\/\">Facebook<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc\/&#038;text=Keiser Podcast \u2013 Damien Comolli and Toulouse FC\">Twitter<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here's a Leaders In Sport article for you &amp;body=Check out this article: Keiser Podcast \u2013 Damien Comolli and Toulouse FC. https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc\/\">Email<\/a>\n                  <a href=\"#copyLink\" id=\"copyButton\" class=\"copy-link-clipboard\">Copy Link<\/a>\n                  <div id=\"textToCopy\" class=\"font-hidden\">https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/podcasts\/keiser-podcast-damien-comolli-and-toulouse-fc\/<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n<!-- blocks\/section -->\n<section\n  class=\"es-section flexible-section  text-only theme-light\"\n    >\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                                    <div class=\"bg-striped-pattern__inner section-padding-top section-padding-bottom\">\n                <div class=\"es-section__inner col-parent col-parent--stack-sm\">\n                                            <div class=\"es-section__sidebar es-section__sidebar--sticky col col--12 \">\n                                                            <p class=\"es-section__label es-label es-label--md\">The club\u2019s President joins the Leaders Performance Podcast alongside Selinay G\u00fcrgen\u00e7 Comolli and Julien Demeaux.<\/p>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                            <div class=\"es-section__text content-area\">\n                                    <p><p>A podcast brought to you by our Main Partners<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keiser.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Keiser_Main_Logo_Red.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>The rise of Toulouse FC has been both fast and meticulously planned.<\/h6>\n<p><em>Le T\u00e9f\u00e9c\u00e9<\/em> were Ligue 2 champions in 2022 and, last season, won the Coupe de France \u2013 their first major trophy in 66 years.<\/p>\n<p>Toulouse also finished 13<sup>th<\/sup> in their first season back in Ligue 1 \u2013 well clear of the relegation zone. Not that Damien Comolli, the club\u2019s President since 2020, is resting on this laurels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone said \u2018well done on staying up\u2019 but we\u2019re not interested in staying up \u2013 we never mentioned staying up \u2013 we said we want to finish as high as possible,\u201d he tells the Leaders Performance Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are games that we feel we should have won and could have won. We lacked this cutting edge, this winning mentality at times, we should have got more points, we should have finished higher than 13<sup>th<\/sup> in the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damien Comolli has overseen the Toulouse\u2019s resurgence under new owners RedBird Capital Partners, but he couldn\u2019t have done it without his \u2018truth teller\u2019, the club\u2019s Head of Strategy &amp; Culture, Selinay G\u00fcrgen\u00e7 Comolli, and Julien Demeaux, Toulouse\u2019s Head of Data.<\/p>\n<p>Both Selinay and Julien joined Damien for this episode, which is brought to you by our Main Partners Keiser.<\/p>\n<p>The theme is Toulouse\u2019s upwards trajectory and what it is going to take to help establish the club at the vanguard of European football.<\/p>\n<p>On today\u2019s agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Damien is working to prevent Toulouse being a \u2018one-season-wonder\u2019 [9:00];<\/li>\n<li>His view on the importance of having a \u2018truth teller\u2019 in Selinay [12:30];<\/li>\n<li>Selinay on the importance of the club\u2019s strategic committee [22:00];<\/li>\n<li>Julien on the comparative immaturity of data usage in football [32:00].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Henry Breckenridge <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryBreck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henrybreckenridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Portch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPortch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-portch-696a4366\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen above and subscribe today on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/leaders-performance-podcast\/id1124488318?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4EKIUuWYk5SWWqRWRQfw3z?si=epSPBhLdREOwtHiGYJnvEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/leaders\/the-leaders-performance-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stitcher<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1124488318\/leaders-performance-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Overcast<\/a>, or your chosen podcast platform.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                            \n                            \n                            \n                                                    <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"col visibly-hidden col--flex-align-right\">\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":19616,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[20],"pathway":[295],"topic":[318,298,334,338],"sport":[303],"class_list":["post-19615","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-culture-performance","pathway-leadership-development","topic-alignment","topic-communication","topic-leadership-of-self","topic-listening","sport-football"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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