Hervé Renard

Hervé Renard
Renard (2018)
Personnel
birthday	September 30, 1968
place of birth	Aix-les-Bains ,  France
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1991	AS Cannes B
1988-1989	AS Cannes	1 (0)
1991-1997	Stade Vallauris	165 (3)
1997-1998	SC Draguignan
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1999-2001	SC Draguignan
2004	Cambridge United
2005-2007	AS Cherbourg
2008-2010	Zambia
2010	Angola
2011	USM Algiers
2011-2013	Zambia
2013-2014	FC Sochaux
2014-2015	Ivory Coast
2015	Lille OSC
2016-2019	Morocco
2019–	Saudi Arabia
1 Only league games are given.

Hervé Renard (born September 30, 1968 in Aix-les-Bains ) is a former French soccer player and current coach of the Saudi Arabian national soccer team.

Player career

Renard played from 1983 to 1991 mostly for the reserve team of AS Cannes and then until 1998 at the amateur clubs Stade Vallauris and SC Draguignan as a defender .

Coaching career

Renard began following his playing career as a coach with the team of SC Draguignan, which he coached from 1999 to 2001. From 2002 to 2003 he was assistant coach under Claude Le Roy at the Chinese club Shanghai COSCO Huili and also during Le Roy's subsequent engagement - at the English club Cambridge United - he remained an assistant to his compatriot. For the 2004/05 season Le Roy left Cambridge and Renard was the new head coach of the English fourth division. In December Renard was dismissed after a weak streak with only four wins from 25 competitive games.

He returned to France and coached the third division AS Cherbourg from 2005 to 2007 . In August 2007, he was appointed assistant coach of the Ghanaian national team by Le Roy . After the Africa Cup of 2008 , the coaching staff around Le Roy Ghana left and Renard was introduced by the Zambian Football Association as the successor to Patrick Phiri as coach of the Zambian national team. At the 2010 African Cup of Nations, he reached the quarter-finals with Zambia , in which the team was eliminated on penalties against Nigeria. For Zambia it was the first time since 1996 that the group stage of the continental tournament was overcome. Subsequently, Renard waived an extension of his expiring contract and became the new coach of the Angolan national team . His engagement there ended in October 2010 and Renard then took over the Algerian first division club USM Algiers in 2011 .

In October 2011 Renard took over the post of national coach for Zambia again after his successor Dario Bonetti had been sacked after successfully qualifying for the 2012 African Cup of Nations. At the tournament Renard led the team to the title. Because of this performance, Renard was named Africa's Coach of the Year 2012.

In October 2013 Renard accepted the offer of relegation-threatened French first division club FC Sochaux for a contract initially limited to the end of the season. After relegation from Ligue 1 , he left the club in May 2014.

On July 31, 2014, the Ivorian Football Association announced that he had been signed as the new national coach of the Ivory Coast and Renard won the Africa Cup with her on February 8, 2015 . He is the first coach to win the Africa Cup with two different national teams and the first foreign coach to win the title with the Ivorian national team. Despite this success, he prematurely terminated his contract there in May 2015 and signed with the French first division club OSC Lille for three years . On November 11, 2015, however, he was released from the club. His successor at OSC Lille was Frédéric Antonetti .

On February 16, 2016, he succeeded Badou Zaki as coach of Morocco .

After the African Cup of Nations in 2019, he announced his retirement as coach of the Moroccan national team, Morocco had surprisingly failed in the round of 16 against the underdog Benin .

On July 30, 2019, it was announced that Renard would be the coach of the Saudi Arabian national soccer team .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Cambridge dismiss manager Renard (December 12, 2004)
2. ↑ rsssf.com: France - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs
3. ↑ ghanafa.org: Renard gets Ghana appointment (Aug. 14, 2007)
4. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Renard named as new Zambia coach (May 7, 2008)
5. ↑ faz.net: The triumph of the building cleaner (February 13, 2012)
6. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Yaya Toure is named the 2012 African Player of the Year (December 20, 2012)
7. ↑ francefootball.fr: Hervé Renard nommé (October 7, 2013)
8. ↑ after the article "Loin des yeux, loin du cœur" in France Football of June 17, 2015, pp. 28/29
9. ↑ according to the article "Le LOSC se sépare d'Hervé Renard" in L'Equipe of November 11, 2015
10. ↑ Renard new national coach for Morocco . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 16, 2016. Accessed August 27, 2020.
11. ↑ bbc.com: Herve Renard: Morocco coach steps down after Africa Cup of Nations (July 21, 2019) , accessed on July 22, 2019