Rabah Saâdane
Rabah Saâdane (Arabic رابح سعدان, DMG Rabah Sa ʿ dān; May 3, 1946 in Batna ) is an Algerian football manager and former player. From 2007 to 2010 he was responsible for the umpteenth time the national team of his country of origin, the so-called fennecs ( " Desert Foxes ").
Playing career
Shortly after Algerian independence played Saâdane - initially as a striker, later mostly in the midfield - in the Ligaelf the AS Batna, one of the oldest football clubs in the former French colony, for whom he played 150 league matches, in 1968/69 for MO Constantine, then for three years at El Biar JS and 1972/73 at USM Blida. Saâdane to have played several times for the Juniorennationalelf and once for Algeria A. Due to the injuries he had suffered in a traffic accident, he had to hang up his football boots at the age of 27 years. He graduated in French Vichy successful coach education. He even got the license to train the French professional league clubs, of which, however, he did not use.
Coaching career
Following his early work as a club coach at El Biar and JS JSD Alger Saâdane worked until the late 1980s for the Fédération de Football Algérienne, where he was responsible for various teams. In 1979, he led the Algerian youth team to the U -20 World Cup in Japan, where his team had to bend the Argentines by a certain Diego Maradona in the quarter -finals. At the same time he was in 1979 and again in 1982 assistant coach of the fennecs in Algeria's first World Cup participation in Spain in the team with Mahieddine Khalef and Rachid Mekhloufi; it was also Saâdane one of the victims of the German - Austrian " non-aggression pact of Gijon". Four years later, he led Algeria, this time as the main person responsible, sovereign by the African qualifiers for the World Cup finals in Mexico. There his team lost, however, against Brazil and Spain, also reached against Northern Ireland only a draw and had to start again after the preliminary round, the journey home. As early as 1980 he had also led the selection of the country in the Olympic football tournament in the quarter-finals, and apparently at quite a high level: a report of the FIFA of the three African Olympian audited the Algerians, among other " good preparation, a balanced game culture and ocular development."
Then trained Rabah Saâdane several club teams; with Raja Casablanca, he won the 1988 Moroccan national champion and 1989 African Cup. 1994/95 he worked for the Tunisian club Etoile Sportive du Sahel, and later in Saudi Arabia and in the beginning of the 21st century again in Algeria, including at USM Alger and ES Sétif, with whom he won the 2007 Arab Champions League.
The subsequent in October 2007, calling for the Algerian national team coach by the FAF was already his fifth, after this function (up to 2004, 1999 and 2003) occupied as well as the fennecs, cared for at a continental tournament, the African Cup of Nations 2004 in the meantime two more times. Short term he trained also happen to be the Yemen national football team. The Algerian team led Rabah Saâdane, due to its peaceful nature and the great experience also " Cheikh " ( " Sheikh " in Arabic شيخ ) is called, 2010 compared to the semi-finals of the Africa and, after a 1-0 victory in playoff Egypt, even to the final of world Cup in South Africa. Against this success over Egypt, he motivated his players with the words " In the football history many great players remained the chance for World Cup participation denied - however, you are only 90 minutes away from it. " And added: "I myself am at the end of my career, and I want to honorably complete [ ... ] So I will win this game, because you are capable of doing. "After the sporty little successful performance of fennecs in South Africa and a brief reflection Saâdane nevertheless stated his willingness to the expired Treaty with the FAF to extend, and signed for a sequel to and including the African Cup of Nations in 2012. having the national team, however early September 2010 in the first qualifier against Tanzania reached only a draw, finished Saâdane its commitment the next day early.
Since the beginning of 2011 he was the national coach of Yemen and worked part-time as a consultant for the French TV channel Canal . In December 2013 Saâdane has taken over the head coaching position at the Algerian first division club ES Sétif as the successor of Hubert Velud.
Palmarčs as coach
- World Cup participants: 1982 ( as an assistant ), 1986, 2010
- Olympian: 1980
- Participation in the CAN finals: 1982, 2004, 2010
- African champions the club teams: 1989
- Arabia masters of club teams: 2007
- Moroccan champion: 1988