Corinne Diacre

Corinne Diacre (born August 4, 1974 in Croix near Roubaix ) is a French football player and coach. In the latter role, she is the first French woman to receive a contract as head coach of a professional men's team (in 2014 with the second division Clermont Foot ), which she fulfilled for three seasons. She has been the coach of the French women's national football team since September 1st, 2017 .

Club career

The central defender began early on with club football, which she played as a young girl one after the other in the mixed teams of three clubs from central France, where she lived with her parents at that time. Near her 14th birthday, Corinne Diacre joined ASJ Soyaux , which provided one of the strongest women's football teams in France in the 1980s. She has remained loyal to this club from the immediate vicinity of Angoulême for almost twenty years, although she also had offers from the US league and was only able to win two runners-up with the ASJ ( 1989 and 1996 ). During the 2006/07 season in the top women's division , she suffered a severe cruciate ligament injury and then ended her playing career.

Stations

• Club Olympique Saint-Chamond (1982/83)
• Société Sportive Aubusson (1983–1986)
• Étoile Sportive Azerables (1986–1988)
• Association Sportive Jeunesse Soyaux (1988-2007)

The national player

On March 9, 1993, she played her first international game in the women's national team , whose captain she became some time later. In November 2002, Diacre scored the goal against England through which the French qualified for the first time for the finals of a World Cup. On June 12, 2005, at the European Championships in England , she played her last game, which was lost 3-0 to the German women , and announced her resignation a few weeks later. With 121 internationals, Corinne Diacre was France's record international player until she was overtaken by Sandrine Soubeyrand in 2008 . In February 1999 she also played on the occasion of the group draw for the 1999 World Cup with a FIFA World Cup against the United States women's national soccer team . The game is not counted as an official international match.

Life after the time as a player

From February 2007 she was assistant to the head coach of the national women's team, Bruno Bini . From 2010 to 2013 Corinne Diacre also coached the first team of women from ASJ Soyaux , where she succeeded Bernadette Constantin , with whom she had already been in the league. In spring 2014, she became the first French woman ever to acquire the highest national training instructor diploma ( diplôme d'entraîneur professionnel de football , DEPF for short), with which she is also allowed to train professional men's teams. At the end of June 2014 she hired Clermont Foot for two years as head coach for his second division team . In the first year she led the men to a secured middle field (12th place). She also demonstrated her ability to assert herself within the club when she advised the president's sports advisor early on and successfully not to interfere in her own skills; In addition, at the beginning of 2015, she replaced the long-time assistant coach and fitness coach. For all personal details, she found support from both the team and the club president. As early as September 2015, and therefore very early on, the association signed a contract with Diacre for two more years (until 2018). Three months later, France Football named her the best second division coach of the year . His second season under Diacre closed Clermont, which had even been promoted at times, in seventh place.

As early as September 2016, the national association FFF wanted to make her the successor to women's national coach Philippe Bergeroo . Corinne Diacre declined the offer with the words: “You don't get off board your ship in September.” A year later, she ended her contract with Clermont, with a 4-year contract, to succeed Olivier Echouafni as To become the coach of the French women's national team . After Élisabeth Loisel , under whom Diacre took part as a player in one world and two European championships, she is only the second woman to hold this post.

Palmarès

• with 121 internationals between March 1993 and June 2005 temporarily French record international
• French championships: runners-up in 1989 (without a final game) and 1996
• Second division coach of the year in France: 2015

Web links

• Data sheet with photo (French) on the association's website

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/sport/der_sport_tag/Revolutionaerin-Diacre-wird-Nationaltrainerin-article20009104.html
2. ↑ ussoccer.com: "FIFA World Stars Defeat US Women's National Team, 2-1, at 1999 Women's World Cup Final Draw"
3. ↑ Corinne Diacre, pionnière les pieds sur terre ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ see the message ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at foot59.fr 
5. ↑ The DEPF is often referred to as the BEPF (brevet d'entraîneur professionnel de football) .
6. ↑ Corinne Diacre Contactee pour remplacer Helena Costa
7. ↑ see the official announcement ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from June 28, 2014 on Clermont's website 
8. ↑ Article "Ligue 2 - A restart that needs clarification" in France Football from July 29, 2015, p. 40
9. ↑ see the corresponding message ( memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from September 22, 2015 on the club website 
10. ↑ France Football of December 16, 2015, pp. 21 and 28/29
11. ↑ Article "Première de cordée", France Football of January 24, 2017, p. 29
12. ↑ FFF press release of August 30, 2017