Philippe Troussier

Philippe Troussier (born March 21, 1955 in Paris ) is a French football coach .

Trainer

Troussier coached football clubs and many national teams, especially in Africa:

• Ivory Coast (1993–1995)
• Nigeria (1997)
• South Africa (1998) Participation in the 1998 World Cup in France
• Burkina Faso (1998)
• Japan (1998–2002) Participation in the soccer World Cup in Japan and South Korea in 2002
• Qatar (2004) the coaching time lasted only 14 days
• Morocco (July 2005 – December 2005)

Troussier trained ASEC Abidjan (1989-1994) as the first coaching station. This was followed by FUS Rabat in Morocco and the traditional French club Olympique Marseille from November 27, 2004 to June 2, 2005. He was dismissed after the club failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup. From January 1st 2007 he was the new trainer at FAR Rabat in Morocco.

The end of 2007, he signed a five-year contract with FC Ryukyu ; He is to lead this Japanese third division club from the island of Okinawa into the J. League as general director together with his coach Jean-Paul Rabier until 2013 . What appeals to Troussier about this task is that he “should build the foundations (youth training center, a new stadium, etc.) for top-class sport in an area where football has no tradition” - regardless of the fact that the club owner Nobuyuki Sakakibara , who is under Among other things, he got rich with the Pride Fighting Championship (part of the Ultimate Fighting Championship since the beginning of 2007 ), close contacts to the Yakuza are said to be.

Private

In 2006 Philippe Troussier converted to Islam . Since then he has been using the first name Omar. His wife also changed her first name Dominique to Ameneh.

Remarks

1. ↑ France Football of December 25, 2007, p. 7
2. ^ Alain Pécheral: La grande histoire de l'OM. Des origines à nos jours. Ed. Prolongations, o. O. 2007, ISBN 978-2-916400-07-5 , p. 352