Claude Le Roy

Claude Le Roy, 2017

Claude Le Roy (born February 6, 1948 in Bois-Normand-près-Lyre , Eure ) is a former French football player and current coach . He is particularly known as the national coach of various African national teams.

career

Player career

The midfielder Le Roy belonged more to the average soccer players in French football. During his playing career, he could not win a title.

Le Roy made his debut at FC Rouen in Division 1 in 1970 . In the same year he moved to league rivals AC Ajaccio . When the club relegated to the second division in 1973, Le Roy left the team and stayed with his move to Olympique Avignon in the first division. In 1977 he moved on to Stade Laval before ending his career in 1980 as a player-coach at the lower-class SC Amiens .

Coaching career

From 1980, Le Roy worked for one season as a player-coach for SC Amiens. In 1981 he hung up his football boots and concentrated on coaching the club. This was followed by an engagement at AS de Grenoble between 1983 and 1985 . He then worked for a short time at Al Shabab in the United Arab Emirates as a trainer.

1985 Le Roy accepted an offer to be the national coach of the Cameroonian selection . With the national team, he won the African Championship in 1988 , after failing in the final two years earlier on penalties against Egypt . Then he ended his engagement. In 1990 he returned to Africa as coach of Senegal . After failing in the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations in 1992 , he went to Asia and took over the national coaching position for Malaysia , which he held until 1995.

In 1996, Le Roy returned to Europe as a functionary and initially worked for AC Milan . In 1997 he became sports director at Paris Saint-Germain , but from 1998 he again took over the Cameroon national team, which he was in charge of at the 1998 World Cup . Without a win and as bottom of the group B in the preliminary round, the tournament was over and Le Roy had to resign.

Until September 2000, Le Roy was in charge of Racing Strasbourg . In 2001 he went to China to Shanghai Cosco . In 2003 he returned to Europe and worked for Cambridge United for a short time .

In 2004 Le Roy went back to Africa and took over the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . During this time he discovered Trésor Mputu Mabi . From 2006 to May 2008 he was the coach of the Ghanaian national team . In July 2008 he took over the national team of Oman. From April 2011 he was the coach of the Syrian national team, but ended his work in May due to the unrest in Syria.

On September 2, 2011, the Congolese association president Omari Selemani announced that Le Roy would again sign a three-year contract with the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . From December 2013 to November 2015, Le Roy coached the national team of the Republic of the Congo in the neighboring country .

He has been coaching the Togolese national football team since April 2016 . He has a contract until December 31, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.20minutes.fr of May 5, 2011: Claude le Roy va quitter la Syrie et s'en prend à la fédération ( Memento of June 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Togo replace coach Tom Saintfiet with Claude LeRoy ( English ) BBC Sport. April 6, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2016.