Hervé Renard
Renard (2008)
Hervé Renard ( born September 30, 1968 in Aix -les- Bains ) is a French former football player and current coach.
Playing career
Renard played from 1983 to 1991 mostly for the reserve team of AS Cannes and then to 1998 at the amateur clubs Stade Vallauris and SC Draguignan as a defender.
Coaching career
Renard began following his playing career as coach of the team of SC Draguignan, which he oversaw from 1999 to 2001. From 2002 to 2003 he was assistant coach under Claude Le Roy for the Chinese club Shanghai COSCO Huili and also during the subsequent commitment Le Roy - the English club Cambridge United - he was an assistant to his compatriot. For the season 2004 /05 Le Roy left Cambridge and Renard became the new head coach of the English fourth division. Back in December Renard was released after a weak Hinserie with just four wins from 25 competitive games.
He returned to France and trained from 2005 to 2007 the third division side AS Cherbourg. In August 2007, he was appointed by Le Roy as the assistant coach of the Ghanaian national team. After the Africa Cup of Nations 2008, the coaching staff at Le Roy Ghana and Renard left was presented as successor of Patrick Phiri as coach of the Zambian national team from the Zambian Football Association. In the African Cup of 2010, he reached the quarter-finals Zambia, where the team was eliminated on penalties to Nigeria. For Zambia, it was the first time since 1996 that the group stage of the continental tournament was over. Following Renard opted not to renew his expiring contract and became the new coach of the Angolan national team. His engagement there already ended in October 2010 and Renard then took over in 2011 the Algerian first division club USM Alger.
In October 2011, Renard again took over the post of national coach of Zambia, after his successor Dario Bonetti was dismissed after successfully qualifying for the African Cup of Nations in 2012. The tournament Renard led the team to the title. Due to this feat Renard was elected Africa's coach of the year in 2012.
In October 2013 Renard accepted the offer of the French first division club FC relegation-threatened Sochaux for an initial fixed term contract until end of season.