Antoine Kombouaré

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Antoine Kombouaré (born November 16, 1963 in Nouméa , New Caledonia ) is a former French football player . Most recently he was the coach of Toulouse FC .

Player career

The 1.84 m tall central defender first played for WS Plum Nouméa in his home country before joining the FC Nantes training center in 1983 as a 19-year-old . This club used Kombouaré for the first time a year later in a game in Division 1 . In the following six years he played for the Canaris ("the canaries" or "the yellow ones" is the most popular epithet for FC Nantes in France) 177 league matches, as well as several national cup games and nine appearances in the UEFA Cup . However, he did not come to a title win during this time; two runner-up championships (1985 and 1986) remained the best placings he achieved with Nantes.

In the summer of 1990 he signed with Paris Saint-Germain FC , who immediately loaned him to the league rivals Sporting Toulon , only to bring him back to the capital before Christmas of the same year . From this point on, Antoine Kombouaré, who was also considered in the French B and Olympic team, was part of the PSG main lineup, with which he was runner-up in 1993 and champion in 1994 ; first with Ricardo , then with Paul Le Guen , he formed a strong central defense. He also won the state cup there twice (1993, 1995) and the league cup in 1995 . In the 1993 final he opened the scoring against his old Canaris with a penalty (final score: 3-0).

The 1992/93 UEFA Cup season was one of the international highlights of his career : first, in the round of the last 16 teams in the second leg at RSC Anderlecht, shortly before the end of the game, he scored the decisive equalizer to make it 1-1; He followed this up in the quarter-finals during stoppage time against Real Madrid with a 4-1 win, which meant Paris made it to the semi-finals - he scored both goals with a header  - in which, however, Juventus Turin was an insurmountable hurdle.

In 1995 Kombouaré moved to the Swiss national league club FC Sion , with whom he won the cup , then for two years in the Scottish league for FC Aberdeen . In these three years he also played in the European Cup Winners' Cup and in the UEFA Cup. In 1998 he returned to Paris and completed another season with the traditional amateur club Racing Club de France 92 .

Player stations

  • WS Plum Nouméa (1975–1983)
  • FC Nantes (1983–1990), 177 D1 games, 5 goals
  • Sporting Toulon (July to November 1990), 17 D1 games
  • Paris SG (December 1990–1995), 106 D1 games, 3 goals
  • FC Sion (1995/96)
  • FC Aberdeen (1996-1998)
  • RC Paris (1998/99)

Coaching career

Antoine Kombouaré as coach of Valenciennes FC

After completing his coaching education, Antoine Kombouaré returned to Paris Saint-Germain , where he was primarily responsible for the second team (in the fourth-class CFA ) and did such a good job that in 2003 he was considered the first candidate to succeed Luis Fernández in the first division eleven. However, after the presidium had decided on Vahid Halilhodžić , he accepted an offer from Racing Strasbourg . He led the Alsatians in the first year to a midfield position, but was sacked by them after a few game days of the 2004/05 season.

In July 2005 he became the head coach of Valenciennes FC , which had just been promoted from the third to the second division . Kombouaré formed a team of the mostly nameless, which made it through to the upper house of football right away; Striker Steve Savidan also became Ligue 2's top scorer . This is an indication that the coach, who primarily prevented goals during his playing days, prefers an offensive and attractive style of play. He therefore describes Jean-Claude Suaudeau , under whom he played in Nantes, as his role models , but also Henri Michel and Artur Jorge , from whose work at PSG he took over the calm, constancy and thoroughness for himself. In 2006, Antoine Kombouaré was named the best second division coach by France Football . The following first division season (2006/07) Valenciennes ended only in 17th place, but had practically nothing to do with the relegation for the entire season. And in the second year, which was also difficult for promoted players in Ligue 1, Kombouaré's team even took 6th place in the table after the first half of the season. After four years, he moved to PSG in 2009, where he took over the league from Paul Le Guen this time . While things went rather badly in the championship , the Kombouarès team crowned the first season by winning the national cup . After the club was taken over by a Qatari investor group, Kombouaré, whose team stayed in first place in the French league, was sacked after Christmas 2011.

From summer 2012, he worked for Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia for eight months . For the 2013/14 season, Kombouaré returned to northern France, where he took over the coaching position at the second division Racing Lens and led them back to the top division at the end of the season. For the 2016/17 season, Kombouaré was the new head coach at the first division club EA Guingamp . When the team carried the Ligue 1 red lantern at the beginning of November 2018, Guingamp's presidium dismissed Kombouaré prematurely. But he only remained unemployed for a short time, because in January 2019 he replaced Olivier Dall'Oglio at league rivals FCO Dijon . Kombouaré then worked there until June 2019. Four months later, he took on the same role at Toulouse FC . However, he was given another leave of absence there less than three months after the TFC was eliminated in the national cup against a fourth division on the first weekend in January 2020 .

In April 2015, Antoine Kombouaré was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Coaching stations

  • Paris SG (reserve) (1999-2003)
  • RC Strasbourg (2003 – October 2004), 47 D1 games
  • Valenciennes FC (2005–2009), 38 D2 and 114 D1 games
  • Paris SG (2009 - December 2011)
  • Al-Hilal (June 2012 - January 2013)
  • Racing Lens (2013 - May 2016)
  • EA Guingamp (2016 - November 2018)
  • FCO Dijon (January - June 2019)
  • Toulouse FC (October 2019 - January 2020)

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion : 1994 (and runner-up 1985, 1986 and 1993)
  • French cup winner : 1993, 1995
  • French league cup winner : 1995
  • Swiss Cup Winner : 1996
  • 31 appearances in European Cups in all three competitions, 9 of them with Nantes, 14 (2 hits) with PSG, 4 each with Sion and Aberdeen
  • International assignments for France's junior ( Espoirs ), B and Olympic teams

As a trainer

literature

  • France Football : Entraîneurs, qui êtes-vous vraiment? No. 3158 of October 17, 2006, pp. 20-23.
  • France Football: Kombouaré, un guide si discret. No. 3167 of December 19, 2006, pp. 26-29.
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2005): 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2007): Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007 ISBN 978-2-915535-62-4

Remarks

  1. ↑ all French first division numbers from Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  2. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2005), p. 287
  3. ↑ L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès (2007), p. 410
  4. ↑ France Football No. 3167, p. 28
  5. ↑ Article from France Football from June 26, 2013
  6. ↑ " Antoine Kombouaré new coach from Toulouse " from October 14, 2019 at francefootball.fr
  7. ↑ Article “ Antoine Kombouaré in Toulouse - Chronology of a Disaster ” from January 5, 2020 at francefootball.fr
  8. ↑ France Football of April 22, 2015, p. 35
  9. ↑ France Football No. 3158, pp. 22/23

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personal data
SURNAME Kombouaré, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Nouméa , New Caledonia