Rudi Garcia
Rudi Garcia in 2011
Rudi Garcia ( born February 20, 1964 in Nemours, Seine- et- Marne ) is a French former football player and current coach. His 2008 late father José Garcia was in the late 1960s also briefly in the French professional football active, but played most of the time as an amateur and then increased as a coach in the amateur field.
Career as a player
Rudi Garcia started to play football as a teenager in Corbeil -Essonnes and Viry -Châtillon. In 1982 he went to the northern French mining region of Nord-Pas -de- Calais and played from then on for OSC Lille. After he was used in his first season for the second team (OSC Lille B), he played from next season for the professionals. In his time at Lille also an incident was in September 1985, when Garcia was in the street by a man who was armed with a pair of scissors attacked. However, in the next five years he remained barred title. 1988 Garcia went to Normandy and hired at SM Caen. There it took him three years.
1991 he moved to the south of France for FC Martigues, for whom he played one year. He then spent two years without a club; Instead, he focused on his studies and finished in this time also his career as a player.
Career as a coach
1994 Rudi Garcia returned to his first club, the AS Corbeil -Essonnes, where he was active as a youth coach until 1996 and then to 1998, coached the men's team. Also in 1998, Garcia was conditioning coach at AS Saint- Étienne, before he was appointed as assistant coach of Robert Nouzaret. On January 5, 2001, he broke from this then as head coach. He had held only until the end of the season this position. 2002 Rudi Garcia was coach at Dijon FCO; in the next five years he led the team in the Ligue 2 and established them there. 2007 Garcia left the Burgundians and went to the then first division club Le Mans UC, with whom he managed to avoid relegation.
From 2008 to 2013 Garcia worked at OSC Lille. In his first year he led the team in the French League in the top group and then took part in the Europa League. There Lille came up before the last sixteen where you failed at Liverpool. In the season 2010/11 they played again in the Europa League. In the same season Garcia's team won the French Cup with a 1-0 win against Paris SG. It was the first title of the Northern French for 56 years. Just a few weeks after the Cup victory won Lille also the league title and thus the double.
On June 12, 2013, was officially presented at a press conference in New York as the new coach of AS Roma. He signed a two- year contract.
Achievements
As a coach
- French Champion: 2011
- Coupe de France: 2011
- France's Coach of the Year: 2011, 2013