Claude Le Roy

Claude Le Roy ( born February 6, 1948 in Bois- Normand -près -Lyre ) is a retired French footballer and current coach. He is best known as coach of various African national teams.

Career

Playing career

The midfielder Le Roy belonged rather to the average soccer players in French football. During his playing career he could not win a title.

Le Roy made ​​his debut in 1970 for FC Rouen in Division 1 in 1970, he moved to league rivals AC Ajaccio. When the club in 1973 in the second division relegation Le Roy left the team and remained with his move to Olympique Avignon in the first division. In 1977 he moved on to Stade Laval, before he made ​​his career in 1980 as player-coach at the finish unterklassigen SC Amiens.

Coaching career

From 1980, Le Roy was a season as player-coach for SC Amiens active. In 1981, he hung up his football boots on the nail and focused on the work as a trainer at the club. This was followed between 1983 and 1985 an engagement with AS de Grenoble. Subsequently, he was briefly employed by Al Shabab in the UAE as a coach.

In 1985, Le Roy to an offer to become coach of the Cameroonian selection. With the national team won the African Cup of Nations in 1988, after he was two years ago failed after a penalty shoot-out against Egypt in the final. Then he finished his commitment. In 1990, he returned as coach of Senegal in Africa. After the failure in the quarter -finals of the African Cup of Nations 1992, he went to Asia and took over the national coach of Malaysia, which he held until 1995.

1996 Le Roy returned to Europe as an official and first worked for AC Milan. In 1997, he was sports director at Paris SG, but took over again in 1998 the national team of Cameroon, he was responsible for the 1998 World Cup. Without victory, as Table of the Preliminary Round Group B, the tournament has ended and Le Roy had to resign his office.

Up to September 2000 Le Roy supervised in connection Racing Strasbourg. In 2001 he went to China to Shanghai Cosco. In 2003 he returned again to Europe and worked for a short time at Cambridge United.

In 2004, Le Roy again to Africa and took over the national team of the Democratic Republic of Congo. During this time he was the discoverer of Trésor Mputu Mabi. From 2006 to May 2008, he was coach of the Ghanaian national team. In July 2008 he took over the national team of Oman. As of April 2011, he was coach of the Syrian selection, finished his work but already back in May due to the unrest in Syria.

On 2 September 2011, the Congolese Association President Omari Selemani announced that Le Roy will again sign a three-year contract with the national team of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Since December 2013 Le Roy trained in the neighboring country, the national team of the Republic of Congo.