Paul Le Guen

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Paul Le Guen
Paul Le Guen au Camp des Loges 01.jpg
Personnel
birthday March 1, 1964
place of birth Pencran ,  France
size 186 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1977-1982 US Pencran
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1982-1983 AS Brest 2 0(0)
1983-1987 Stade Brestois B. 45 0(7)
1984-1989 Stade Brestois 120 0(4)
1989-1991 FC Nantes 76 0(1)
1991-1998 Paris Saint-Germain 248 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-1995 France 17 0(0)
1998 Breton football selection 1 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1998-2001 Rennes stadium
2002-2005 Olympique Lyon
2006-2007 Glasgow Rangers
2007-2009 Paris Saint-Germain
2009-2010 Cameroon
2011-2016 Oman
2016-2017 Nigeria
2017-2018 Bursaspor
1 Only league games are given.

Paul Le Guen (born March 1, 1964 in Pencran ) is a French football coach . He ended his active football career in 1998. The 1.86-meter-tall Frenchman played mainly in defense .

Player career

Paul Le Guen began his career in 1972 as a child in Landerneau , Brittany . He played there until 1977 and then moved to Pencran. In 1984, Le Guen signed his first professional football contract in his second season with Stade Brestois at the age of 20. He played in Brest until 1988 and then for two seasons with FC Nantes . The successful part of his career began in 1991 when he moved to Paris Saint-Germain . Internationally, he played for both France and Brittany . In 1998 he ended his career after 444 games in Division 1 and became a football coach.

Coaching career

Le Guen began his coaching career in 1998 at Stade Rennes in France. From May 21, 2002 to the summer of 2005, he coached Olympique Lyon . The club was with Le Guen three times in a row (2003 to 2005) French champions . In 2004 he was elected Coach of the Year in France . After the club won the first title under Jacques Santini in 2002, this was the fourth championship title in a row for Olympique. Le Guen hired his team in 2005 in such a way that they had arithmetically secured the title three game days before the end with a lead that could not be recovered. He is the third football coach in France to win three consecutive titles. Albert Batteux (1968–1970) and Robert Herbin (1974–1976) had previously achieved this .

In the summer of 2006 Le Guen succeeded Alex McLeish with the Glasgow Rangers . The contract was terminated seven months later after a dispute with team captain Barry Ferguson . This was the shortest tenure of a Rangers coach. On January 15, 2007 Le Guen succeeded Guy Lacombe as coach at relegation-threatened Paris Saint-Germain . He left the club after the 2008/09 season.

In July 2009, Le Guen became the coach of the Cameroonian national team . He successfully led the team through qualifying for the World Cup in South Africa . At the same time the qualification for the soccer African championship 2010 took place , in which Cameroon was eliminated against the eventual winner Egypt in the quarter-finals with 1: 3 a. At the 2010 World Cup, Cameroon faced the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan, lost all three games and achieved the second-worst overall result of the tournament, after which Le Guen resigned on June 25th. From June 2011 to 2016 he was the national coach of Oman . In July 2016 he became the coach of the Nigerian national team .

On June 22, 2017, Le Guen became the coach of the Turkish first division club Bursaspor . He was released on April 10, 2018.

Palmarès

As a player

(all successes with Paris Saint-Germain)

As a trainer

  • French champion: 2003, 2004 and 2005 with Lyon
  • French league cup winner: 2008 with Paris
  • French Coach of the Year: 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC Sport: Rangers name Le Guen as manager ; News from March 11, 2006
  2. ^ BBC Sport: Le Guen and Rangers part company ; News from January 4, 2007
  3. ↑ BBC Sport: Le Guen returns to coach at PSG ; report from January 15, 2007
  4. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Le Guen leaves Paris. Retrieved May 5, 2009 .
  5. ^ Paul Le Guen quitte ses fonctions de sélectionneur du Cameroun ; Announcement on LeMonde.fr of June 25, 2010.
  6. ↑ Le Guen new coach of Oman , sport1.de from June 23, 2011 (accessed June 24, 2011)
  7. ↑ Le Guen appointed new Nigeria Boss website of the Confédération Africaine de Football , accessed on July 28, 2016 (English)
  8. ↑ bursaspor.org.tr: Paul Le Guen Resmi Sözleşmeyi İmzaladı , accessed on June 22, 2017.
  9. ↑ dailysabah.com: Bursaspor fires French coach Paul Le Guen , accessed April 11, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Le Guen, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Pencran