Alain de Martigny

Alain de Martigny ( born April 9, 1946 in Paris ) is a French former football player and coach.

Career

Time as a player

At the age of twelve years, de Martigny was included in the youth department of the professional clubs Red Star Paris. Then he wore the jersey of two smaller clubs, before he went to Lille in 1967 to begin her sports studies. Parallel to his studies, he played for AC Cambrai, which he succeeded in 1970, the rise in the second division, while he took a post as a teacher at the same time.

De Martigny thus able to advance to the second division, where he ran aground, however, not for Cambrai, but for the OSC Lille. He came up with 28 disputed second division matches on a very regular inserts and managed beyond the 1971 promotion to the top French league. In this way he could see the first 25 first division matches in his career contest, but had to accept the 1972 re- direct descent. In the season 1972/73 the midfielder confirmed its role in the team and showed up with ten goals in 31 games, which is the best value of his career, extremely goal threat, but missing out on promotion. This, however, succeeded in 1974, when de Martigny is also secured the title of the second division champion with Lille. In the two years that followed, he was placed firmly in the northern French club and held with this two times the class.

Time as player-coach

At age 30, signed de Martigny in 1976 at second division Stade Brest, where he at the same time, the Office of the trainer was transferred in addition to a role as a player. Despite its obligations as a trainer, he held as a player a place in the midfield, but failed each clearly in his first two years at the desired advancement. The latter succeeded in 1979, with the player-manager received the award as a second division coach of the year for his services. During the 1979/80 season he played ten Erstligapartien and rose with the team at the end of the year with a clear residue from. The 34 -year-old decided after 104 Erstligaeinsätzen with nine goals and 180 second division operations with 32 goals for ending his active career, while he retained his coaching job.

As manager

At the end of the season 1980/81 de Martigny reached Brest direct resurgence and a year later the league in the first division. Nevertheless, he returned to the club after six years back, for which personal differences with the association president tipped the scales. In the summer of 1982, he took over for the duration of the World Cup on the side of Michel Hidalgo the post of assistant coach of the French selection that eliminated in the semifinals in a penalty shoot-out against Germany.

Following this de Martigny was offered the coaching job at second division RC Paris, which he led to the first division in 1984. Because the club was in great danger of direct re descent, who also followed at the end of the season, he was replaced at the turn of 1984/85 by Victor Zvunka, who served henceforth as player-coach. 1985 left de Martigny France when he was coach of the Gabonese national team, with whom he won the CEMAC Cup in the same year and the country so earned the first international title at all. Although he was released in 1987, he remained in the African State, where he coached the AS Sogara and 1989 led to the title.

In 1989 he returned to France and was stopped for a year without a job, before he found a new employer in the second division Guingamp. After two years with a good placement of the club slide in the third year of the relegation zone and de Martigny became the winter break 1992/93 replaced by Yvon Schmitt, but the descent could not turn away. In November 1993, he was hired as a coach at the first division SCO Angers with the order to avoid the fall into the second class. As he did not succeed, he had to leave the west French club again in 1994.

He then worked as a manager at unterklassigen CS Meaux from 1995 to 1998 and moved there in 1998 to coach the chair. On promotion to the fifth league he failed in the season 1998/99, however, is scarce. Then he returned back in 1999 after 17 years at Stade Brest, which took now in its fourth league. He led the club in his first year in the third division, but failed in 2001 at the hoped-for promotion to the second division in 2002 and had suffered almost relegated again in the fourth. In view of this, the 56 -year-old de Martigny opted for a termination of his career as a coach.