Guy Roux (soccer coach)

Guy Roux (2014)

Guy Roux (born October 18, 1938 in Colmar ) is a French football coach .

Roux coached the club AJ Auxerre (AJA) from 1961 to 2005 with small interruptions . He led the club from Burgundian amateur football to the highest French league, Division 1 (today: Ligue 1 ).

From June to August 2007 Roux worked again as a coach for five match days, this time with the first division club RC Lens .

Roux as an active player

Roux also played football himself: AJA member since 1952, he played for the first time in their first team in 1957, moved to Limoges FC in the same year , was loaned out to Stade Poitiers in the meantime. In 1960 he trained for a month at Crystal Palace in London, but then returned to Auxerre.

Coach years

When the almost 23-year-old Guy Roux took up the position of coach at this club in the early 1960s , the league team played in the Division d'Honneur , comparable to an association league in Germany. Since the association could not find any financially strong sponsors, Roux developed a system of screening and promoting talent. In doing so, he relied on a concept of sustainability and the homogeneous development of his teams, not on quick successes, in which he was supported by his respective club presidents.

The first interruption of his activity in Auxerre occurred in 1962 when he had to do his military service in Trier - and with the local team he trained, he became German champions of the French troops. From 1964 coach in Auxerre again, his club soon began to climb: In 1970 the AJA became champions of the Burgundian honor division for the first time, in 1974 they rose to the 2nd division ( Division 2 ) and thus to the professional area, and in 1979 the club was in Final game for the national cup . However, the second division lost to FC Nantes after extra time, after defeating first division OSC Lille in the quarter-finals and even the newly crowned French champions Racing Strasbourg in the semi-finals . In 1980 Auxerre, which originally came from the Catholic football movement , was promoted to the top division of France under Guy Roux - AJ Auxerre was represented there until 2012, Roux was coach until June 2005.

Further stations of the "AJ de Roux" were the first appearance in the European Cup in 1984, the first French cup win in 1994, the first national championship in 1996 and the 1997 Intertoto Cup .

In the 2000/01 season, Roux took a break as a coach, but was back on the bench of the league team from Auxerre in May 2001 - and received two bypasses in an emergency operation in November of the same year . Three quarters of a year later he overtook his coaching colleague Kader Firoud with 783 first division games and expanded this record to 890 games in the top division by May 2005. When he left, he was again French cup winner with AJ Auxerre in 2005; the day after the final, he announced his final resignation.

Roux was always a representative of offensive football and held on to the 4-3-3 system even after other successful coaches had long since propagated the 4-4-2, 4-5-1 or other systems with few real strikers - and Roux still had Success with it. He was voted coach of the year three times (1986, 1988 and 1996) .

In the summer of 2007 he returned to the coaching bench at a first division club, the RC Lens , which the League Association initially tried to prevent for reasons of age. After five game days, Roux ended this comeback attempt, which according to his words should have been his last; since then his record has been 895 Ligue 1 games.

Private

Since 1993, Roux has published several books on football; the first was called Fou de foot (German: football crazy ). In 1999 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In addition, he has been a local councilor in his home town of Appoigny in the Yonne department since 1995 , obviously in the committee for youth and sport. In 2001 and 2008 Roux was re-elected. Since summer 2005 Guy Roux has been commenting on and analyzing games in the French top league on Canal Plus .

successes

• French football champion : 1996
• French football cup winner : 1994, 1996, 2003, 2005
• European Cups: Intertoto Cup Winner (1997)
• French Coach of the Year: 1986, 1988, 1996

Web links

Commons : Guy Roux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Guy Roux in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Guy Roux. Histoire de l'AJ Auxerre, archived from the original on September 30, 2009 ; accessed on March 26, 2017 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olivier Joly, Yannick Sado: A l'attaque des mairies! ( Memento of the original from September 5, 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. Le Journal du Dimanche , March 3, 2008, accessed March 26, 2017 (French).