Raymond Domenech

Biography

Player

Rough defender with the reputation of bad lot, called, wrongly, the " breaker of jambes" Raymond Domenech carried out the major part of his career of player in his formative club: the Olympic Lyonese, where it in particular cotoyé as a player and a trainer some Aimé Jacquet.

After a profitable passage to RC Strasbourg between 1977 and 1981 with which it gained the championship of France in 1979, it will join the Paris Saint-Germain, then the Girondins of Bordeaux (where it finds Aimé Jacquet) before finishing its career of player to the FC Mulhouse where it will have the statute of trainer-player.

Trainer

He becomes trainer of the Olympic Lyonese in 1988 and makes go up, in one year, the club in the first division. In 1993, it integrates the National Technical Direction French football and becomes the selector of the team of France Hopes.

Selector of the team of France

Already had a presentiment of for the station in 2002, Raymond Domenech must await the July 12th 2004, the shortly after the Euro 2004, to succeed Jacques Santini with the head of the team of France. Its taking of coincides with the international retreat glorious former players. Raymond Domenech must rebuild the selection while ensuring the qualification for the World cup 2006. He succeeds in convincing Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram and Claude Makélélé to reinstate the team of France in August 2005.

Under her direction, the team of France qualifies itself for the Football world cup of 2006. During this competition, the team of France qualifies itself for the eighth of finale where it beats Spain, then Brazil in quarter. She beats Portugal in semi-final. Raymond Domenech had given go to all, on July 9th, it held word. The blue ones play the final of the Football world cup, on July 9th, 2006, in Berlin against the team of Italy but they are inclined with the shootings with the goals. Extremely of this success, its contract of selector was prolonged until in 2010.

The first matches of qualification for the Euro 2008 reinforced the credit of the selector with, in particular, a brilliant revenge on Italy (3-1) the September 6th 2006 with the Stade de France.

A contrario, Raymond Domenech is constantly criticized by the media whereas its choices proved to be relevant. One will be able however to note that this situation is not new. Indeed, in its time, Aimé Jacquet had not selected Eric Cantona and David Ginola, however two of largest the stars of French football, with the Euro 1996, and that had already caused at the time many criticisms, two years before the victory of the Bleus in World cup 1998.

The August 27th 2007, Raymond Domenech is suspended by UEFA for the match of September 8th, 2007 against Italy (0-0) for the qualification of the Euro 2008 after having declared that Italian had bought a match against the team of France hopes which it directed at the time.

It qualifies France for the Euro 2008.

Prize list

Player

1973:Winner of the cut of France (Olympic Lyonese).
1979: Champion of France (Racing Club of Strasbourg)
1982: Winner of the cut of France Paris Saint-Germain
1984: Champion of France (Of Gironde of Bordeaux).

Trainer

1989: Champion of France of D2: (Olympic Lyonese).
1997: winner of the Tournament of Toulon with the team of France Hopes
1999: winner of the Tournament of Casablanca with the team of France Hopes
2002: vice-champion of Europe with the team of France Hopes
2004: winner of the Tournament of Toulon with the team of France Hopes
2006: Vice-champion of the world (Football world cup) with the team of France A.

Statistics player

Others

Raymond Domenech is also actor amateur of Théâtre and impassioned Astrologie.
His/her partner is Estelle Denis, journalist sporting with M6 (100% foot) and at Paris Première (the Tournament of the Aces). The couple has two children: a girl, Victoire born on July 11th, 2004 and a fore-mentioned little boy Merlin, born on July 25th, 2007.

Quotations

When the mountain was seen, I pushed in the other direction. Landings like that, I would not make two of them.

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