Guy Roux
Guy Roux ( born October 18, 1938 in Colmar ) is a French football coach.
Roux is one of by far the most popular trainers in France, which has acquired some reputation that he coached from 1961 to 2005 with minimal disruption always the same club, this from the depths of the Burgundian amateur football in the highest French league, the Division 1 (now: Ligue 1) and has shaped out there a real giants: Roux is the undisputed "Father of the successes " of AJ Auxerre.
From June to August 2007 Roux returned for five games back to the dugout in the first division side RC Lens.
Roux as an active player
Roux also played football itself, but it gained no appreciable awareness: AJA member since 1952, he ran in 1957 for the first time in their first team on, moved in the same year to Limoges FC, has now been loaned to Stade Poitiers. In 1960, he trained for a month to sample at Crystal Palace in London, but then returned to Auxerre.
44 years coach
As the nearly 23 -year-old Guy Roux early 60s in this club took over as coach, played the league team in the Division d' Honneur, comparable with a fifth division in Germany. Since there were no ready financially strong sponsors in the small town of Auxerre, Roux developed a system of classification and promotion of talent, which was later copied by many other clubs. He sat on a concept of sustainability and the homogeneous development of its team (s ), not to quick success, and was lucky that he was supported in this by his respective club presidents.
A first recess period in Auxerre there were in 1962, when he had to complete his military service in Trier - and with the trained him Standortelf promptly German masters of the French troops. From 1964 back coach in Auxerre began his club soon an unstoppable ascent: 1970 AJA was first Master of the Burgundian Eredivisie 1974 it rose in the 2nd League ( Division 2 ) and thus in the professional area, and in 1979 was the " provincial association " in the final of the national Cup. It was enough to win the title this time yet, but the second division side FC Nantes forced into overtime. 1980 succeeded in Auxerre, which originally came from the Catholic soccer move, under Guy Roux promotion to the top flight in France - where the AJ Auxerre was represented until 2012, and the trainer was called to June 2005, Guy Roux.
Other major stops on the " AJ de Roux " were in 1984 the first appearance in the European Cup, in 1994 the first French Cup win, 1996, the first national championship in 1997 and winning the Intertoto Cup.
In the 2000 /01 season Roux took a break as a coach (which he has not actually held ), then sat from May 2001 on the bench League team from Auxerre - and received in November of the same year in emergency surgery two bypasses. Nine months later, he took 783 first division matches his coaching colleagues squad Firoud and built this at least in France could hardly be outdone record until May 2005 to 890 games in the top division of. At his departure, he was again in 2005 French Cup winner with AJ Auxerre; the day after the final, he explained to his final resignation.
Roux was always a representative of the offensive football and has the 4-3 -3 system also arrested when other successful coach long the 4-4-2, 4-5-1 or other " magic formulas " with few real strikers propagated - and Roux yet had success with it. Three times ( 1986, 1988 and 1996) he was elected coach of the year.
In the summer of 2007 he returned again to the dugout during a first division club, RC Lens, back to what the League Association sought to avoid for reasons of age first. After five rounds Roux finished this comeback attempt that should have been his last final in his words; his record has since been at 895 games in Ligue 1
The Private Man
Since 1993 Roux has published several books about football; the first was significant Fou de foot (German: football mania ). He was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1999. In addition, he has worked since 1995 in his residence Appoigny in the Yonne department as a community councilor ( for obvious reasons the Committee on Youth and Sports ); 2001 and 2008, the nonpartisan, moderately conservative Roux were each re-elected. Since summer 2005, commented on and analyzed Guy Roux on Canal Plus Games of the highest French league.
Palmarčs
- French Football Champion: 1996
- French Cup winner: 1994, 1996, 2003, 2005
- European Cups: Intertoto Cup Winners' Cup (1997)
- French Coach of the Year: 1986, 1988, 1996