The outstanding French coach coached eight national teams (Cameroon, Senegal, Malaysia, Congo-Kinshasa, Ghana, Oman, Congo-Brazzaville and Togo) for (in total) 272 international matches and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Born: 6- 2-1948 Country: France Matches as Coach: 272 (W107-D86-L79 – GF358-GA280 – %55.15) Matches as Coach for Cameroon: 50 (W 28-D16-L 6 – GF 80-GA 43 – %72.00) Matches as Coach for Senegal: 33 (W 12-D12-L 9 – GF 34-GA 22 – %54.54) Matches as Coach for Malaysia: 11 (W 2-D 2-L 7 – GF 16-GA 22 – %27.27) Matches as Coach for Congo-Kinshasa: 50 (W 14-D21-L15 – GF 64-GA 56 – %49.00) Matches as Coach for Ghana: 20 (W 12-D 3-L 5 – GF 34-GA 21 – %67.50) Matches as Coach for Oman: 44 (W 18-D12-L14 – GF 50-GA 40 – %54.54) Matches as Coach for Congo-Brazzaville: 26 (W 12-D 5-L 9 – GF 37-GA 33 – %55.76) Matches as Coach for Togo: 38 (W 9-D15-L14 – GF 43-GA 43 – %43.52) Age First Match: 37 yr 60 d 7- 4-1985 vs. Zambia 1-4 Age Last Match: 73 yr 51 d 29- 3-2021 vs. Kenya 1-2 National Team Career: 35 yr 356 d
Caps Date Venue Opponent Score Competition
Coach for Cameroon
first tenure
1 7- 4-85 Lusaka Zambia 1-4 World Cup Qualifier
2 21- 4-85 Yaoundé Zambia 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
3 15- 9-85 Yaoundé Saudi Arabia 4-1 African-Asia Cup
4 4-10-85 Taif Saudi Arabia 1-2 African-Asia Cup
5 8-12-85 Libreville Equat. Guinea 2-0 UDEAC Cup
6 12-12-85 Libreville Chad 2-2 UDEAC Cup
7 15-12-85 Libreville Congo-Brazz. 0-1 UDEAC Cup
8 18-12-85 Libreville Chad 2-1 UDEAC Cup
9 26- 2-86 Tunis Tunisia 1-1
10 8- 3-86 Alexandria Zambia 3-2 African Nations Cup
11 11- 3-86 Alexandria Morocco 1-1 African Nations Cup
12 14- 3-86 Alexandria Algeria 3-2 African Nations Cup
13 17- 3-86 Alexandria Ivory Coast 1-0 African Nations Cup
14 21- 3-86 Cairo Egypt 0-0 [1] African Nations Cup
15 9-12-86 Malabo Equat. Guinea 2-0 UDEAC Cup
16 11-12-86 Malabo Chad 3-1 UDEAC Cup
17 16-12-86 Malabo Congo-Brazz. 1-0 UDEAC Cup
18 19-12-86 Bata Chad 4-1 UDEAC Cup
19 29- 3-87 Yaoundé Uganda 5-1 African Cup Qual.
20 11- 4-87 Kampala Uganda 1-3 African Cup Qual.
21 20- 4-87 Brazzaville Gabon 2-0 Central African G.
22 24- 4-87 Brazzaville Chad 3-0 Central African G.
23 27- 4-87 Brazzaville Congo-Brazz. 3-0 Central African G.
24 30- 4-87 Brazzaville Angola 2-0 Central African G.
25 28- 6-87 Lilongwe Malawi 1-1 Olympic G. Qualifier
26 5- 7-87 Yaoundé Sudan 2-0 African Cup Qual.
27 12- 7-87 Yaoundé Malawi 3-0 Olympic G. Qualifier
28 18- 7-87 Khartoum Sudan 0-1 African Cup Qual.
29 1- 8-87 Nairobi Madagascar 3-0 African Games
30 3- 8-87 Nairobi Kenya 3-3 African Games
31 5- 8-87 Nairobi Tunisia 3-1 African Games
32 9- 8-87 Nairobi Egypt 1-1 [2] African Games
33 12- 8-87 Nairobi Malawi 1-3 African Games
34 4-10-87 Kumasi Ghana 0-0 Olympic G. Qualifier
35 14-11-87 Yaoundé Ghana 2-2 Olympic G. Qualifier
36 8-12-87 N'Djaména Equat. Guinea 1-0 UDEAC Cup
37 10-12-87 N'Djaména Equat. Guinea 0-0 UDEAC Cup
38 16-12-87 N'Djaména Gabon 1-0 UDEAC Cup
39 18-12-87 N'Djaména Chad 1-0 UDEAC Cup
40 14- 3-88 Rabat Egypt 1-0 African Nations Cup
41 17- 3-88 Rabat Nigeria 1-1 African Nations Cup
42 20- 3-88 Rabat Kenya 0-0 African Nations Cup
43 23- 8-88 Casablanca Morocco 1-0 African Nations Cup
44 27- 3-88 Casablanca Nigeria 1-0 African Nations Cup
second tenure
45 27- 5-98 Arnhem Netherlands 0-0
46 31- 5-98 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2-0
47 5- 6-98 København Denmark 2-1
48 11- 6-98 Toulouse Austria 1-1 World Cup
49 17- 6-98 Montpellier Italy 0-3 World Cup
50 23- 6-98 Nantes Chile 1-1 World Cup
[1] Cameroon lost 4-5 on penalty kicks.
[2] Cameroon lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
Coach for Senegal
1 1- 4-89 Dakar Morocco 2-1
2 24- 5-89 Bamako Guinea Bissau 0-0 Amilcar Cabral Cup
3 27- 5-89 Bamako Mali 2-2 Amilcar Cabral Cup
4 30- 5-89 Bamako Cape Verde Isl. 1-2 Amilcar Cabral Cup
5 2- 7-89 Dakar Tunisia 3-0 African Cup Qual.
6 16- 7-89 Tunis Tunisia 1-0 African Cup Qual.
7 21-11-89 Dakar C. African Rep. 3-0
8 26-11-89 Brazzaville Congo-Brazz. 0-0
9 24-12-89 Dakar Sierra Leone 1-0
10 31-12-89 Dakar Algeria 0-0
11 24- 1-90 Kaduna Liberia 1-0 CEDEAO Cup
12 28- 1-90 Kaduna Nigeria 0-0 CEDEAO Cup
13 3- 3-90 Annaba Kenya 0-0 African Nations Cup
14 6- 3-90 Annaba Cameroon 2-0 African Nations Cup
15 9- 3-90 Annaba Zambia 0-0 African Nations Cup
16 12- 3-90 Alger Algeria 1-2 African Nations Cup
17 15- 3-90 Alger Zambia 0-1 African Nations Cup
18 18-12-90 Constantine Algeria 0-1
19 19-12-90 Casablanca Morocco 0-0
20 15- 2-91 Dakar Ivory Coast 0-0 [1] International Tourn.
21 17- 2-91 Dakar Algeria 2-2 [2] International Tourn.
22 5- 5-91 Dakar Ivory Coast 0-0 CEDEAO Cup
23 9- 6-91 Abidjan Ivory Coast 0-2 CEDEAO Cup
24 31-10-91 Abidjan Ghana 3-2 CEDEAO Cup
25 2-11-91 Abidjan Ivory Coast 0-1 CEDEAO Cup
26 24-11-91 Dakar Guinea Bissau 4-0 Amilcar Cabral Cup
27 27-11-91 Dakar Cape Verde Isl. 0-0 Amilcar Cabral Cup
28 30-11-91 Dakar Gambia 2-0 Amilcar Cabral Cup
29 2-12-91 Dakar Cape Verde Isl. 1-0 Amilcar Cabral Cup
30 16-12-91 Alger Algeria 1-3
31 12- 1-92 Dakar Nigeria 1-2 African Nations Cup
32 16- 1-92 Dakar Kenya 3-0 African Nations Cup
33 19- 1-92 Dakar Cameroon 0-1 African Nations Cup
[1] Senegal lost 2-3 on penalty kicks.
[2] Senegal won 3-1 on penalty kicks.
Coach for Malaysia
1 22- 9-94 Kuala Lumpur Kuwait 0-2
2 1-10-94 Hiroshima Hongkong 4-3 Asian Games
3 3-10-94 Hiroshima Uzbekistan 0-5 Asian Games
4 7-10-94 Hiroshima Saudi Arabia 1-2 Asian Games
5 9-10-94 Kuala Lumpur Thailand 1-1 Asian Games
6 21- 7-95 Kuala Lumpur Iraq 1-2 Merdeka Tournament
7 29- 7-95 Kuala Lumpur Bulgaria 0-2 Merdeka Tournament
8 4-12-95 Chiangmai Vietnam 0-2 SEA Games
9 6-12-95 Chiangmai Thailand 0-0 SEA Games
10 8-12-95 Chiangmai Indonesia 0-3 SEA Games
11 10-12-95 Lamphun Cambodia 9-0 SEA Games
Coach for Congo-Kinshasa
first tenure
1 6- 6-04 Kampala Uganda 0-1 World Cup Qualifier
2 20- 6-04 Kinshasa Burkina Faso 3-2 World Cup Qualifier
3 3- 7-04 Praia Cape Verde Isl. 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
4 18- 8-04 Colombes Mali 0-3
5 5- 9-04 Kinshasa South Africa 1-0 World Cup Qualifier
6 10-10-04 Kumasi Ghana 0-0 World Cup Qualifier
7 8- 2-05 Rouen Ivory Coast 2-2
8 27- 3-05 Kinshasa Ghana 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
9 5- 6-05 Kinshasa Uganda 4-0 World Cup Qualifier
10 18- 6-05 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 0-2 World Cup Qualifier
11 1- 7-05 Gaborone Botswana 0-0
12 16- 8-05 Colombes Guinea 3-1
13 4- 9-05 Kinshasa Cape Verde Isl. 2-1 World Cup Qualifier
14 25- 9-05 Chililambombwe Zambia 2-2
15 27- 9-05 Lubumbashi Zambia 0-0
16 8-10-05 Durban South Africa 2-2 World Cup Qualifier
17 11-11-05 Paris Tunisia 2-2
18 16-11-05 Paris Libya 1-2
19 11-12-05 Lubumbashi Zambia 1-1
20 14-12-05 Chingola Zambia 1-4
21 9- 1-06 Rabat Morocco 0-3
22 14- 1-06 Dakar Senegal 0-0
23 21- 1-06 Cairo Togo 2-0 African Nations Cup
24 25- 1-06 Cairo Angola 0-0 African Nations Cup
25 29- 1-06 Cairo Cameroon 0-2 African Nations Cup
26 3- 2-06 Cairo Egypt 1-4 African Nations Cup
27 12- 5-06 Cd. de México Mexico 1-2
second tenure
28 3- 9-11 Dakar Senegal 0-2 African Cup Qual.
29 7-10-11 Kinshasa Cameroon 2-3 African Cup Qual.
30 6-11-11 Pretoria Lesotho 3-0
31 11-11-11 Lobamba Swaziland 3-1 World Cup Qualifier
32 15-11-11 KInshasa Swaziland 5-1 World Cup Qualifier
33 15- 1-12 Seeb Oman 2-2
34 23- 2-12 Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania 0-0
35 29- 2-12 Roche Caiman Seychelles 4-0 African Cup Qual.
36 2- 3-12 Doha Egypt 0-0
37 2- 6-12 Yaoundé Cameroon 0-1 World Cup Qualifier
38 10- 6-12 Kinshasa Togo 2-0 World Cup Qualifier
39 17- 6-12 Kinshasa Seychelles 3-0 African Cup Qual.
40 9- 9-12 Kinshasa Equat. Guinea 4-0 African Cup Qual.
41 14-10-12 Malabo Equat. Guinea 1-2 African Cup Qual.
42 14-11-12 El Jadida Burkina Faso 0-1
43 20- 1-13 Port Elizabeth Ghana 2-2 African Nations Cup
44 24- 1-13 Port Elizabeth Niger 0-0 African Nations Cup
45 28- 1-13 Durban Mali 1-1 African Nations Cup
46 24- 3-13 Kinshasa Libya 0-0 World Cup Qualifier
47 7- 6-13 Tripoli Libya 0-0 World Cup Qualifier
48 16- 6-13 Kinshasa Cameroon 0-0 World Cup Qualifier
49 7- 7-13 Kinshasa Congo-Brazz. 2-1 CHAN Qualifier
50 28- 7-13 Dolisie Congo-Brazz. 0-1 CHAN Qualifier
Coach for Ghana
1 4-10-06 Yokohama Japan 1-0
2 8-10-06 Seoul South Korea 3-1
3 14-11-06 London Australia 1-1
4 6- 2-07 London Nigeria 4-1
5 24- 3-07 Graz Austria 1-1
6 27- 3-07 Stockholm Brazil 0-1
7 21- 8-07 London Senegal 1-1
8 8- 9-07 Le Pt.-Quevilly Morocco 2-0
9 11- 9-07 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 0-5
10 18-11-07 Accra Togo 2-0
11 21-11-07 Accra Benin 4-2
12 20- 1-08 Accra Guinea 2-1 African Nations Cup
13 24- 1-08 Accra Namibia 1-0 African Nations Cup
14 28- 1-08 Accra Morocco 2-0 African Nations Cup
15 3- 2-08 Accra Nigeria 2-1 African Nations Cup
16 7- 2-08 Accra Cameroon 0-1 African Nations Cup
17 9- 2-08 Kumasi Ivory Coast 4-2 African Nations Cup
18 28- 3-08 London Mexico 1-2
19 23- 5-08 Sydney Australia 0-1
20 1- 6-08 Kumasi Libya 3-0 World Cup Qualifier
Coach for Oman
1 9- 8-08 Tehran Syria 1-2 WAFF Tournament
2 11- 8-08 Tehran Jordan 1-3 WAFF Tournament
3 20- 8-08 Wattayah Uzbekistan 2-0
4 6- 9-08 Wattayah Morocco 0-0
5 10- 9-08 Wattayah Zimbabwe 3-2
6 14-11-08 Wattayah Jordan 2-0
7 19-11-08 Muscat Paraguay 0-1
8 17-12-08 Muscat China 3-1
9 19-12-08 Muscat Ecuador 2-0
10 22-12-08 Muscat Senegal 1-0
11 4- 1-09 Muscat Kuwait 0-0 Gulf Cup
12 7- 1-09 Muscat Iraq 4-0 Gulf Cup
13 10- 1-09 Muscat Bahrain 2-0 Gulf Cup
14 14- 1-09 Muscat Qatar 1-0 Gulf Cup
15 17- 1-09 Muscat Saudi Arabia 0-0 [1] Gulf Cup
16 19- 1-09 Muscat Indonesia 0-0 Asian Cup Qualifier
17 28- 1-09 Kuwait City Kuwait 1-0 Asian Cup Qualifier
18 28- 3-09 Seeb Senegal 2-0
19 30- 5-09 Muscat Egypt 0-1
20 2- 6-09 Dubai South Korea 0-0
21 9- 6-09 Cannes Bosnia-Herzeg. 1-2
22 12- 8-09 Salalah Saudi Arabia 2-1
23 9- 9-09 Doha Qatar 1-1
24 14-10-09 Melbourne Australia 0-1 Asian Cup Qualifier
25 14-11-09 Muscat Australia 1-2 Asian Cup Qualifier
26 17-11-09 Muscat Brazil 0-2
27 31-12-09 Singapore Singapore 4-1
28 6- 1-10 Jakarta Indonesia 2-1 Asian Cup Qualifier
29 20- 1-10 Seeb Sweden 0-1
30 3- 3-10 Muscat Kuwait 0-0 Asian Cup Qualifier
31 18- 5-10 Sana'a Yemen 1-0
32 11- 8-10 Astana Kazakhstan 1-3
33 3- 9-10 Al-Wakrah Malaysia 3-0
34 7- 9-10 Doha Qatar 1-1
35 21- 9-10 As-Salt Iraq 2-3
36 26- 9-10 Amman Bahrain 0-2 WAFF Tournament
37 28- 9-10 Amman Iran 2-2 WAFF Tournament
38 8-10-10 Seeb Gabon 1-0
39 12-10-10 Seeb Chile 0-1
40 17-11-10 Seeb Belarus 0-4
41 23-11-10 Aden Bahrain 1-1 Gulf Cup
42 26-11-10 Aden UA Emirates 0-0 Gulf Cup
43 29-11-10 Abyan Iraq 0-0 Gulf Cup
44 29- 3-11 Seeb Tunisia 2-1
[1] Oman won 6-5 on penalty kicks.
Coach for Congo-Brazzaville
1 13- 1-14 Bloemfontein Ghana 0-1 CHAN Cup
2 17- 1-14 Bloemfontein Ethiopia 1-0 CHAN Cup
3 21- 1-14 Polokwane Libya 2-2 CHAN Cup
4 17- 5-14 Windhoek Namibia 0-1 African Cup Qual.
5 1- 6-14 Pointe-Noire Namibia 3-0 African Cup Qual.
6 20- 7-14 Pointe-Noire Rwanda 2-0 African Cup Qual.
7 2- 8-14 Kigali Rwanda 0-2 African Cup Qual.
8 6- 9-14 Calabar Nigeria 3-2 African Cup Qual.
9 10- 9-14 Pointe-Noire Sudan 2-0 African Cup Qual.
10 11-10-14 Pointe-Noire South Africa 0-2 African Cup Qual.
11 15-10-14 Polokwane South Africa 0-0 African Cup Qual.
12 15-11-14 Pointe-Noire Nigeria 0-2 African Cup Qual.
13 19-11-14 Khartoum Sudan 1-0 African Cup Qual.
14 10- 1-15 Dakar Cape Verde Isl. 2-3
15 17- 1-15 Bata Equat. Guinea 1-1 African Nations Cup
16 21- 1-15 Bata Gabon 1-0 African Nations Cup
17 25- 1-15 Ebebiyín Burkina Faso 2-1 African Nations Cup
18 31- 1-15 Bata Congo-Kinshasa 2-4 African Nations Cup
19 14- 6-15 Owando Kenya 1-1 African Cup Qual.
20 1- 9-15 Brazzaville Ghana 2-3
21 5- 9-15 Bissau Guinea-Bissau 4-2 African Cup Qual.
22 13-10-15 Brazzaville Benin 2-1
23 18-10-15 Yaoundé Cameroon 0-0 CHAN Qualifier
24 31-10-15 Brazzaville Cameroon 0-1 CHAN Qualifier
25 14-11-15 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 4-3 World Cup Qualifier
26 17-11-15 Brazzaville Ethiopia 2-1 World Cup Qualifier
Coach for Togo
1 27- 5-16 Lomé Zambia 1-0
2 5- 6-16 Monrovia Liberia 2-2 African Cup Qual.
3 4- 9-16 Lomé Djibouti 5-0 African Cup Qual.
4 4-10-16 Lomé Uganda 1-0
5 9-10-16 Lomé Mozambique 2-0
6 11-11-16 Tunis Comoros 2-2
7 15-11-16 Marrakech Morocco 1-2
8 16- 1-17 Oyem Ivory Coast 0-0 African Nations Cup
9 20- 1-17 Oyem Morocco 1-3 African Nations Cup
10 24- 1-17 Port-Gentil Congo-Kinshasa 1-3 African Nations Cup
11 24- 3-17 Alexandria Libya 0-0
12 28- 3-17 Alexandria Egypt 0-3
13 4- 6-17 Marseille Comoros 2-0
14 11- 6-17 Blida Algeria 0-1 African Cup Qual.
15 16- 7-17 Lomé Benin 1-1 CHAN Qualifier
16 23- 7-17 Cotonou Benin 1-1 [1] CHAN Qualifier
17 31- 8-17 Agadir Niger 2-0
18 4- 9-17 Agadir Malawi 0-1
19 5-10-17 Tehran Iran 0-2
20 12-11-17 Lomé Mauritius 6-0
21 21- 3-18 Saint-Leu-Forêt Madagascar 0-0
22 24- 3-18 Beauvais Ivory Coast 2-2
23 9- 9-18 Lomé Benin 0-0 African Cup Qual.
24 12-10-18 Lomé Gambia 1-1 African Cup Qual.
25 16-10-18 Bakau Gambia 1-0 African Cup Qual.
26 17-11-18 Lomé Algeria 1-4 African Cup Qual.
27 24- 3-19 Cotonou Benin 1-2 African Cup Qual.
28 6- 9-19 Moroni Comoros 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
29 10- 9-19 Lomé Comoros 2-0 World Cup Qualifier
30 10-10-19 Fos-sur-Mer Cape Verde 1-2
31 13-10-19 Salon-de-Prov. Equat. Guinea 1-1
32 14-11-19 Lomé Comoros 0-1 African Cup Qual.
33 18-11-19 Nairobi Kenya 1-1 African Cup Qual.
34 12-10-20 Tunis Sudan 1-1
35 14-11-20 Cairo Egypt 0-1 African Cup Qual.
36 17-11-20 Lomé Egypt 1-3 African Cup Qual.
37 25- 3-21 Iconi Comoros 0-0 African Cup Qual.
38 29- 3-21 Lomé Kenya 1-2 African Cup Qual.
[1] Togo lost 7-8 on penalty kicks.
NB: the match against Nigeria (0-3, 1- 6-17 in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) was not authorized by the
French FA and FIFA and therefore not included here; Nigeria made nine substitutions.
Total Record
Matches Won Draw Lost For-Against Points Percentage
272 107 86 79 358- 280 300 55.15
Types of Matches
Friendlies 90
African Nations Cup 38
African Cup Qualifier 38
World Cup Qualifier 24
UDEAC Cup 12
Gulf Cup 8
Amilcar Cabral Cup 7
CHAN Qualifier 6
Asian Cup Qualifier 6
CEDEAO Cup 6
African Games 5
Asian Games 4
Central African Games 4
Olympic Games Qualifier 4
SEA Games 4
WAFF Tournament 4
World Cup 3
CHAN Cup 3
African-Asia Cup 2
Other Tournaments 4
Total matches: 272
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