Raymond Domenech

Raymond Domenech
Raymond Domenech (2007)
Personnel
Surname	Raymond Manuel Albert Domenech
birthday	January 24, 1952
place of birth	Lyon ,  France
size	176 cm
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1969-1977	Olympique Lyon	246 (7)
1976-1977	Olympique Lyon B	1 (0)
1977-1981	Racing Strasbourg	128 (4)
1980-1981	Racing Strasbourg B	2 (0)
1981-1982	Paris Saint-Germain	19 (1)
1981-1982	Paris Saint-Germain B.	3 (0)
1982-1984	Girondins Bordeaux	40 (3)
1984-1985	FC Mulhouse	13 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1973-1979	France	8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1984-1989	FC Mulhouse
1989-1993	Olympique Lyon
1993-2004	France U-21
2004-2010	France
2010–201?	AC de Boulogne-Billancourt (U-11)
2014	Niger
2016–	Brittany
1 Only league games are given.

Raymond Manuel Albert Domenech [ ʁɛmɔ̃ dɔmɛnɛk ] (born January 24, 1952 in Lyon ) is a former French football player . From 2004 to 2010 he was the national coach of the French national team , with which he became vice world champion in 2006. Domenech is of Catalan descent; his father emigrated from Spain at the time of Franquism .

Player career

society

His first League Game of the iron-hard -back Domenech at age 18 for Olympique Lyon in Nice (2: 0). With Lyon he won the French Cup in 1973 . From 1977 to 1981 he was under contract with Racing Strasbourg and won the French championship title in 1979 . He then played another year at Paris Saint-Germain and from 1982 to 1984 at Girondins Bordeaux , where he was able to win the French Cup again in 1984. Until 1985 he was player- coach and then head coach at FC Mulhouse .

With a total of 432 premier league appearances, he is not part of the "500 club" , but was still a formative figure in French football for a decade and a half and was later to be a coach, especially as a coach for the senior national team.

National team

Internationally, he ran eight times for France's senior national team between 1973 and 1979. However, he was not part of the squad for the 1978 World Cup .

Coaching career

At the beginning of his coaching career he worked as head coach of FC Mulhouse between 1984 and 1988. From 1989 he was coach of Olympique Lyon before he switched to Direction Technique Nationale (DTN), the coaching staff of the French national soccer team, in 1993. During this time he coached the U-20 and U-21 national teams of France, but without winning a title in the respective age group. There he worked in the background for a good ten years.

On July 12, 2004, after the European Championship , he succeeded national coach Jacques Santini . In the period that followed, the team had major problems qualifying for the 2006 World Cup, even against small soccer nations in their own Stade de France . At the World Cup finals in Germany , the team reached the final after initially poor performance.

Raymond Domenech values ​​tactical discipline, which he learned in the Grand Est region at Racing Strasbourg . His record with the national team after 79 games is positive; Nevertheless, the Sélectionneur was repeatedly in the crossfire of public criticism mainly because of his tactical decisions (preference for the 4-2-3-1 system ) and the supposedly too long stuck to "veteran" players. There have been numerous debutants in the A-Elf under his aegis.

At the European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland in 2008, the French under Domenech were eliminated in the group stage as the bottom group. Nevertheless, it was announced on 3 July 2008 that Domenech further remains in office and the Équipe tricolore to the 2010 FIFA World Cup to lead. He succeeded in doing this after a detour via the relegation phase . At the 2010 World Cup, the French national team was also eliminated from the group bottom in the preliminary round (see also fiasco of Knysna ). His contract as a Sélectionneur expired at the end of June 2010; however, he was still a member of the influential Direction Technique Nationale (DTN) at the FFF . This well-paid, permanent position was terminated at the beginning of September 2010, justified in particular with "his behavior at the World Cup ... such as the refused handshake with Carlos Alberto Parreira and the handling of the ' Anelka matter '". Subsequently, the French Football Association had to pay him compensation of around one million euros due to this termination without notice; he himself had asked for 2.9 million euros.

In November 2010, Domenech agreed to temporarily train the E-youth (U-11) of the French amateur club Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt . Shortly before, he had only stated that he received between 5,600 and 5,900 euros in unemployment benefits. He donated the 150,000 euros he received at the World Cup in full to two amateur clubs, 70,000 euros of which to the Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt, and to a charity. After he was still volunteering as a youth coach, he was in conversation in the summer of 2011 as a possible successor to Abdelhak Benchikha as coach of the Algerian national football team , but this was shelved when Vahid Halilhodžić signed up shortly afterwards . During this time, he also advertised for operators of sports betting and online games .

In September 2013 he was appointed to the board of directors of the French professional league association LFP at the suggestion of the UNECATEF coaching union . After four years without a real coaching job, he took over responsibility for the Niger national team in 2014 , but only held this position for a short time. In April 2016 he was introduced as coach of the Breton football team. Shortly before, he was again under discussion as a possible coach of the Algerian national team.

successes

Success as a player

• French football cup with Olympique Lyon : 1973
• French champion with Racing Strasbourg : 1979
• French football cup with Girondins Bordeaux : 1984

Success as a trainer

• Vice world champion with France: 2006

Remarks

1. ↑ Article “Association dismisses Domenech” ( Memento from September 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in France Football from September 5, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} One million compensation for Trainer Domenech , accessed December 8, 2016
3. ↑ New "job" for ex-team boss , accessed on December 8, 2016
4. ↑ Failed coach Domenech is now a luxury unemployed person , accessed on December 8, 2016
5. ↑ Domenech donates , accessed on December 8, 2016
6. ↑ Entraîneur en Algérie: Domenech approché mais pas d'acte de candidature (French), accessed on December 8, 2016
7. ↑ see the message of September 26, 2013 at France Football
8. ↑ Le onze que pourrait aligner Domenech en Équipe de Bretagne (French), accessed on December 8, 2016
9. ^ Raymond Domenech futur sélectionneur de l'Algérie? (French), accessed December 8, 2016