Paul Le Guen
Paul Le Guen ( born March 1, 1964 in Pencran ) is a French football coach. He ended his career as a football player in 1998. The 1.86 meter tall Frenchman played mainly in defense.
Playing career
He began his career Paul Le Guen in 1972 as a child in Landerneau in Brittany. There he played until 1977, before moving to Pencran. 1984 wrote Le Guen in his second season at Stade Brestois 20 years with his first football professional contract. He played until 1988 in Brest, and then for two seasons at FC Nantes. In 1991, the successful part of his career with the move to Paris Saint- Germain FC. Internationally, he played both for France and for the Brittany. In 1998, he finished his career after 444 games in Division 1 and was a football coach.
Coaching career
Paul Le Guen began his coaching career in 1998 at Stade Rennes in France. From 21 May 2002 until the summer of 2005, he coached Olympique Lyon. The association was with Le Guen three times in a row (2003-2005) French masters. In 2004 he was elected Coach of the Year. After the first title in their history under Jacques Santini in 2002, the fourth championship title was in series for Olympique. Le Guen put his team in 2005 so convincing that they had secured the title with three games remaining, with no more einzuholendem lead. Paul Le Guen is only the third football coach in France, who won three titles in a row. Previously, this was Albert Batteux (1968-1970) and Robert Herbin (1974-1976) succeeded. In the summer of 2006, Le Guen took over from Alex McLeish at Rangers. However, the contract was terminated seven months later after a dispute with the captain and fan favorite Barry Ferguson by mutual consent. This was the shortest tenure of a coach of the Rangers in their club history 133 years.
On 15 January 2007 Le Guen successor to Guy Lacombe as manager of relegation-threatened Paris Saint- Germain FC was presented. On 5 May 2009 it was announced that Le Guen Paris Saint Germain will not work out the coming season and left the club.
In July 2009, Le Guen coach of Cameroon. He led the team in Cameroon successfully through qualifying for the World Cup in South Africa. At the same time carried out qualifying for the African Cup in 2010, retired in Cameroon to eventual winners Egypt in the quarter-finals with 1:3 aet. In the 2010 World Cup Cameroon hit the Netherlands, Denmark and Japan but lost all three games and scored the second-worst overall result of the tournament, after Paul Le Guen resigned on June 25.
In June 2011, Le Guen coach of Oman.
Palmarčs
As a player
(all successes with Paris SG)
- French Champion: 1994 ( and runner-up 1993, 1996 and 1997)
- French Cup Winners: 1993, 1995 and 1998
- French League Cup winner: 1995 and 1998
- French Supercup winner: 1996
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1996
- 17 appearances for the French national football team zwischen 1993 and 1995.
As coach
- French Champion: 2003, 2004 and 2005 with Lyon
- French League Cup Winners: 2008, Paris
- French Coach of the Year: 2004