Manuel Amoros

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Manuel Amoros
Personnel
birthday February 1, 1962
place of birth Nîmes ,  France
size 172 cm
position right / left full-back
Juniors
Years station
1972-1977 Gallia Club Lunel
1977-1980 AS Monaco
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1981 AS Monaco B 23 (4)
1980-1989 AS Monaco 287 (36)
1989-1993 Olympique Marseille 108 (2)
1992-1993 Olympique Marseille B 3 (0)
1993-1995 Olympique Lyon 66 (3)
1995-1996 Olympique Marseille 16 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1982-1992 France 82 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
1998-2000 Villeneuve-Saint-Germain
2002 CS Sfaxien
2003-2004 Olympique Marseille (Scout)
2004-2005 Kuwait U-20
2010 Comoros
2012-2013 Benin
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Amoros (born February 1, 1962 in Nîmes ) is a former French football player and current coach of Spanish descent.

The defender Amoros played on the right as on the left defense. He started his professional career in 1980 at AS Monaco and after the Soccer World Cup in 1982 earned himself a regular place in the French national team under coach Michel Hidalgo . At the 1982 World Cup, he was the youngest player in the Bleus squad. In a subsequent internet vote, he was voted the "best young player" of this tournament. The final participation was missed in the dramatic semi-final match against Germany, the so-called Night of Seville . Amoros was very unlucky because he hit the German crossbar in the 90th minute of regular time when the score was 1: 1. His first major tournament as a regular player was the 1984 European Football Championship in his own country, which began sadly for Amoros in the opening game against Denmark , as he was sent off by the German referee Volker Roth for a rude foul. He was then only used as a substitute in the final against Spain and became European champion.

At the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in 1986 , the French national team came back to the semi-finals with Amoros, where they again lost 2-0 to Germany . Due to the course of the tournament, France was the favorite in this game. While France had only entered the game for third place with a B-Elf four years earlier, this time they played with more commitment and finished third. Amoros scored the 4-2 against Belgium to the final score. After Amoros had become French champions twice and cup winners once with Monaco , he moved to rival Olympique Marseille in the south of France in 1989 , where he formed a strong defensive chain with German Karlheinz Förster and Brazilian Carlos Mozer . With this team he was French champion three times in a row and won the UEFA Champions League in 1993 . With the French national team, he took part in the European Football Championship in Sweden in 1992 , but was eliminated in the preliminary round. The French team began to regroup this year and Amoros announced his departure from the national team after 82 games. In 1993 he moved to Olympique Lyon . He played there for two years before returning to Olympique Marseille in 1995. In 1996 he ended his career as an active soccer player.

Manuel Amoros was named France's Footballer of the Year in 1986 . In February 1992 he replaced Maxime Bossis with his 77th appearance in the Équipe Tricolore as a record French national player . Didier Deschamps only surpassed this mark in March 1999 .

In mid-2010 Amoros took over the coaching position for the Comorian national soccer team , and then worked as an assistant coach in Kuwait. In early 2012 he became the national coach of Benin . On March 15, 2014, he was released from Benin and replaced by his French compatriot Didier Ollé-Nicolle .

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: Amoros sélectionneur des Comores (June 16, 2010)
  2. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Benin appoint Manuel Amoros as new coach (Jan. 13, 2012)
  3. ^ Didier Ollé-Nicolle nouveau sélectionneur national du Bénin
predecessor Office successor
Antonio Cabrini Best Young Player of the 1982 World Cup (subsequent internet vote)

 		Enzo Scifo
personal data
SURNAME Amoros, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes