Farid Benstiti

Farid Benstiti ( born January 16, 1967 in Lyon ) is a French former football player, who was never came to missions in the first division. Since the end of his players he works as a trainer in women's football and in this function so far ( March 2014 ) Master and five national won three Cup titles.

Playing career

Farid Benstiti belonged since the 1984/85 season to the team squad Olympique Lyon, which in those years was playing in the second division. However, the midfielder himself came there just to point a few stakes and was mostly active in Lyons Reserve team. As Olympique 1989 promotion to the first division succeeded, he saw for himself no future in sports and moved to second division side Cercle Dijon Laïque. There he was, however, only a reserve player, coach Yves Herbet allowed only a few missions, so returned after one season to Lyon back - but for amateur club AS Lyon- Duchère -, tried in 1992 to one year in unterklassigen Belgian KFC Avenir Lembeek and then again in the French amateur football ( among other things, each for two seasons at FC Sète and again in Duchère ). In 2000 he finished his time at FC Gap as a player.

Coaching career

Then graduated Benstiti coach education and took over 2001 the trainer position at the Erstligafrauschaft of FC Lyon. In his first season, he reached the final of this for the first time discharged French Cup competition, in which the FCL against FC Toulouse but was defeated, and finished second in the league in fourth place. But already in the following two years he led his women each for Cup win and the vice championship in the Division 1 as the women's football department has moved closed in the summer of 2004 to local rivals Olympique Lyon, Farid Benstiti found there especially better financial conditions and increased the team gradually with young players, which he laid special emphasis on offensive and attractive style of play. This continuous development soon bore fruit by Olympique had become 2005 and 2006 each league third parties and also reached the National Cup final in two years, but without being able to go on the list of winners.

This changed with the first title in the 2006/07 season of crucial importance because the Elf constructed of Benstiti defended its title in the following season, in which they also won the Cup and thus the Doublé. 2009 and 2010 were followed by the third and fourth French title for the coach and the club. In the four " master years ' Olympique Lyon had won 88 of his 77 league games and lost only three, scoring 104 goals in average per season and only nine have to accept. Also in the European Cup had OLs power curve upwards; the women were each eliminated in 2008 and 2009, yet in the semifinals ( against Umeå IK or FCR Duisburg), they contested the 2010 final, where they lost on penalties Turbine Potsdam. Despite his achievements and contributions Farid Benstiti was replaced in the summer of 2010 OL by Patrice Lair. He then worked as a talent scout for Olympiques men's division, before the club also declined in this function on its services.

In the summer of 2011, he accepted the offer of the FK Rossijanka to act as a technical director for its women's team; in Russia the new season had just begun - the first after the conversion of the championship operation from the calendar year to the multi-year season. In the autumn of 2011 Russia's Dutch head coach Vera Pauw gave up her position, Farid Benstiti supervised parallel to its club activities temporarily the women's national. The Russians did make it into the Europa Cup qualification to the second group rank behind Italy; However, this was not enough to take part in the finals in Sweden. Early 2012 took over the Frenchman at Rossijanka as coach after Tatiana Egorova had abandoned this position for health reasons, and led the women from Krasnoarmeisk to win the league title.

Mid-2012 Farid Benstiti returned to France, where he has since the women of Paris Saint- Germain FC trained, the invested heavily since taking office in his woman elf and where high expectations for the trainer. At the end of his first season at the capital club PSG women had won the runner-up behind Lyon, thereby qualifying for the Champions League. In the current season (2013 /14) Paris succeeded as the only club in the Division 1 victory against league leaders Lyon, and that even in the " Cave of the lionesses ."

Palmarčs as coach

  • French Champion: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 ( and runner-up 2003, 2004, 2013)
  • French Cup Winners: 2003, 2004, 2008 ( and finalist in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 )
  • Champion of Russia: 2012
  • European Cup: Finalist 2010 ( and semi-finalist 2008, 2009 )

Comments and evidence

  • Football players (France)
  • Football coach (France)
  • Football coach (Russia)
  • Women's Soccer
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1967
  • Man
  • Person (Lyon )
1984–85 French Division 2 Olympique Lyonnais 1988–89 French Division 2 Toulouse FC Local derby Double (association football) 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam WFC Rossiyanka Directeur sportif Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow Oblast
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