CÔTE D'IVOIRE Manager - Sabri Lamouchi
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Personal information
Full name:
Sabri Lamouchi
Date of birth:
November 9, 1971
Place of birth:
Lyon, France
Height:
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position:
Midfielder
Current:
Côte d'Ivoire: Manager
Youth career:
AS Lyon-Duchère: 1977-1981
Cascol Oullins: 1982-1989
Senior career*
Alès: 1990-1994
106x apps / 26x goals
Auxerre: 1994-1998
129x apps / 19x goals
Monaco: 1998-2000
56x apps / 4x goals
Parma: 2000-2003
90x apps / 7x goals
Internazionale: 2003–2005
16x apps / 0x goals
→ Genoa (loan): 2004-2005
20x apps / 1x goals
Marseille: 2005-2006
36x apps / 5x goals
Al-Rayyan: 2006-2007
7x apps / 6x goals
Umm-Salal: 2007-2008
10x apps / 1x goals
Al-Kharitiyath: 2009
Total:
470x apps / 79x goals
National team
France: 1996-2001
12x apps / 1x goals
Teams managed
Côte d'Ivoire: 2012-
‡ appearances and goals correct as of 28 August 2006
Sabri Lamouchi (born 9 November 1971 in Lyon, France) is a former professional football who played as a midfielder.
Born in France of Tunisian descent, although he has never stepped foot in Tunisia. Lamouchi made twelve appearances for the France national football team.
From May 2012, he became manager of Côte d'Ivoire national team, his first managerial position.
Club career
Sabri Lamouchi started his professional career with Alès in France.
During his time there, he impressed Auxerre and played with them for four years.
He then went on to join Monaco before being snapped up by Parma of Italy.
Even though he had an average season, he was again on the move this time to Italian giants Internazionale.
He struggled there, and failed to win a place in the team.
Lamouchi had a spell at Genoa before joining Olympique de Marseille on loan the following year.
In January 2006, the loan deal was made a permanent move.
He played for Olympique de Marseille for six further months, until he announced that he was leaving the club on September 18, 2006, although his contract ran until June 2007.
Next, Lamouchi moves to Al-Rayyan in the Qatari League, scoring a spectacular goal in his first match.
The next season, he moved on to Umm-Salal.
In January 2009, Lamouchi transferred to Al-Kharitiyath.
International career
Lamouchi was capped 12 times and scored one goal for the French national team.
He made his debut in 1996 and was a member of the French European Championship squad the same year.
He was in France's preliminary squad of 28 players for the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil.
However he was one of 6 players axed by head coach Aime Jacquet just before the tournament began.
France went on to be victorious in the tournament and become national heroes.
Kalou, scored 23 goals in 67 appearances for Ivory Coast - He has proved his class in the Premier League, Champions League and with his national team.
Toure faced racist taunts when the clubs met in the Champions League a year ago and the two sides will cross swords again this season.
Ivory Coast striker Seydou Doumbia has been coaxed out of international retirement by coach Herve Renard and named in the squad for September's Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
This weekend's fixtures
GROUP A
• Real Bamako vs Coton Sport 1:1
• AC Leopards (CGO) vs ASEC Mimosas 4:1
GROUP B
• Sewe San Pedro vs Nkana 3:0
• Al Ahly vs Etoile Sahel 0:0
Sierra Leone have climbed 14 places in the Fifa world rankings for August, lifting them into the top 50 for the fist time in their history.
A second-half hat-trick from Kader Bidimbou and a Cesaire Gandze strike gave Leopards the victory which helps them close the gap on leaders Coton Sport to just two points with one round of group matches remaining.
Frenchman Herve Renard has been appointed coach of Ivory Coast. The 45-year-old had two spells as Zambia coach and led them to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2012.
Toure, who signed a new four-year deal last season, also wants to see more signings in the coming weeks to help establish City as a "massive" club.
Group A
• 27 July: Coton Sport vs Asec Mimosas 2:1
• 27 July: AC Leopards vs Real Bamako 1:2
Group B
• 27 July: Al Ahly vs Sewe Sports 1:0
• 27 July: Nkana vs Etoile du Sahel 4:3
The Ivory Coast international was voted Chelsea's greatest ever player in a poll of fans in 2012 and has spoken of his close ties to the Blues. His 34 goals for Chelsea in European competition remains a club record, as do his nine strikes in nine cup finals.
