Alain de Martigny

Alain de Martigny
Personnel
birthday	April 9, 1946
place of birth	Paris ,  France
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1958-1963	Red Star Paris
1963-1966	OC Châteaudun
1966-1967	ES Colombienne
1967-1970	AC Cambrai
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1976	Lille OSC	175 (33)
1976-1980	Stade Brest	109 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1976-1982	Stade Brest
1982	France (assistant coach)
1982-1985	Racing Paris
1985-1987	Gabon
1987-1989	AS Sogara
1990-1993	EA Guingamp
1993-1994	SCO Angers
1998-1999	CS Meaux
1999-2002	Stade Brest
1 Only league games are given.

Alain de Martigny (born April 9, 1946 in Paris ) is a former French football player and coach .

Career

Time as a player

At the age of twelve, de Martigny was accepted into the youth division of the professional club Red Star Paris . He then wore the jersey of two small clubs before he went to Lille in 1967 to start studying sports there. Parallel to his studies, he played at AC Cambrai , with whom he was promoted to the second division in 1970, while at the same time he took a position as a teacher.

De Martigny managed to make the leap into the second division, in which he did not play for Cambrai, but for Lille OSC . He came with 28 contested second division games on very regular missions and also made it to the top French league in 1971. In this way he was able to play the first 25 first division games of his career, but had to accept direct relegation in 1972. In the 1972/73 season, the midfielder consolidated his role in the team and showed himself with ten goals in 31 games, which is the best value of his career, extremely dangerous, but still missed promotion. However, this succeeded in 1974 when de Martigny also secured the title of second division champion with Lille. In the next two years he was fixed at the northern French club and held the class twice with this.

Time as a player-coach

At the age of 30, de Martigny signed in 1976 with the second division side Stade Brest , where he was given the position of coach in addition to a role as a player. Despite his obligations as a trainer, he had a regular place in defensive midfield as a player, but failed significantly in his first two years on the aspired promotion. The latter succeeded in 1979, with the player-coach receiving the award as second division coach of the year for his achievements. During the 1979/80 season he played ten first division games and rose with the team at the end of the year with a clear residue. The 34-year-old decided after 104 first division appearances with nine goals and 180 second division appearances with 32 goals to end his active career, while he kept his coaching post.

Time as a trainer

At the end of the 1980/81 season, de Martigny reached direct resurgence with Brest and a year later relegation in the first division. Nevertheless, he turned his back on the club after a total of six years, for which personal differences with the club president were decisive. In the summer of 1982 he took over for the duration of the World Cup at the side of Michel Hidalgo, the post of assistant coach of the French selection , which was eliminated in the semifinals on penalties against Germany.

Subsequently, de Martigny was offered the coaching post at the second division RC Paris , which he led in 1984 in the first division. Because the club was threatened by direct relegation, which also followed at the end of the season, he was replaced at the turn of the year 1984/85 by Victor Zvunka , who then acted as player-coach. In 1985, de Martigny left France when he coached the Gabonese national team , with which he won the CEMAC Cup that same year, earning the country its first ever international title. Even when he was released in 1987, he stayed in the African state, where he coached AS Sogara and led to the league title in 1989.

In 1989 he returned to France and was unemployed for a year before he found a new employer in the second division team EA Guingamp . After two years with a good placement, the club slipped to the relegation ranks in the third year and de Martigny was replaced by Yvon Schmitt during the winter break in 1992/93 , who was unable to avert relegation. In November 1993 he was hired as a coach at the first division club SCO Angers with the task of avoiding the fall into the second division. When he did not succeed, he had to leave the West French club in 1994.

He then worked from 1995 to 1998 as a manager at the lower-class club CS Meaux, where he took the coaching chair in 1998. On promotion to the fifth division, however, he narrowly failed in the 1998/99 season. He then returned to Stade Brest in 1999 after 17 years, which is now in the fourth division. He led the club in his first year in the third division, but failed in 2001 on the hoped for promotion to the second division and in 2002 almost had to accept relegation to fourth. In view of this, the 56-year-old de Martigny decided to end his career as a coach.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alain de Martigny , afterfooot.fr
2. ↑ Football: Alain de Martigny , footballdatabase.eu