French coach Jacques Crevoisier has signed a three-year agreement to work as a technical consultant for Andrew Bascome’s ABC Football School.Crevoisier’s role is similar to the one he would have performed for Bermuda Football Association (BFA) had the new executive not cancelled his contract in December.They did not believe his $120,000 a year salary offered value for money, but the ABC Football School believe the BFA’s loss will be their gain.Crevoisier will be responsible for drawing up a coaching manual, an education syllabus and conducting clinics for the ABC School during twice-yearly visits to the Island. He is due to arrive in Bermuda next week when he will hold a four-day coaching seminar.Henrik Schroder, the ABC School director, said Crevoisier’s reputation had been “unfairly tainted” amid the BFA contract saga and believed his vast knowledge would be invaluable to the ABC programme.“We have signed an agreement with Jacques. He will develop a coaching handbook which is being finalised right now. We hope to publish it within the next two to three months,” said Schroder.“It will be for public use and anyone can buy it. He’s also set to develop playbooks from grassroots up to the Under-16 level as well as lecture some of our local coaches.“His only mission is to help coaches, build relationships and facilitate. There will also be an exchange programme which will see local coaches spend time at professional academies in France.”Schroder hopes Crevoisier’s playbooks will influence the domestic clubs’ way of coaching and wants them to encourage their coaches to attend his seminars.He also said the ABC School was looking to form a working relationship with the BFA, who turned Crevoisier’s services down.“Hopefully the local coaches can build a relationship with Jacques. We have a good dialogue (with the BFA), we expect and hope to get good co-operation. The changing of the guard (at the BFA), resulted in whatever . . . there has been a long runway to get us to these discussions. I think Jacques was painted in a bit of a bad light . . . he’s a very personable guy.”Andrew Bascome echoed Schroder’s sentiments regarding Crevoisier’s coaching expertise and believes Bermuda’s coaches can learn plenty from him.“I know the amount of information Jacques has and I want to learn from him, I will be picking his brains,” said Bascome, who won promotion to the Premier Division with Robin Hood this season. “I encourage other coaches in Bermuda to do the same.”Crevoisier’s three-year deal with the BFA was signed off just hours before ex-president Richard Calderon stepped down last September.A top sports psychologist at Arsenal, Crevoisier had intended on working for both the BFA and the ABC School as a technical consultant, performing an almost identical role for both.But this was considered a serious conflict of interests by Calderon’s successor Larry Mussenden and his executive whose decision to pull out of the Crevoisier contract was supported by the affiliates. A former assistant coach at Liverpool, Crevoisier had been due to replace ex-BFA technical director Derek Broadley who left the Island last month.During recent years, Crevoisier has visited the Island on several occasions to perform coaching clinics on behalf of the BFA and Bermuda Football Foundation, which was set up by Richard Calderon and his twin brother Robert.Earlier this year Bascome spent ten days at Clairfontaine, the ‘mecca’ of French football, along with local coaches John Barry Nusum and Karl Roberts as part of a trip organised by Crevoisier.The ABC School recently signed a five-year deal with Valencia FC to base one of their football academies in Bermuda. The season-long camps will begin in September at Saltus and will see the La Liga club send two of their main youth coaches to the Island.Valencia ran a week-long camp alongside Bascome last October, but this new permanent arrangement will only be the third such academy the club has opened outside of Spain, with the others in Egypt and Japan.