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Denis Lavagne
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-07-09) 9 July 1964 (age 60)
Place of birth Béziers, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1982 Le Havre B
1982–1983 Rouen B
1983–1984 Béziers
1984–1985 Alès
1985–1987 Orange
1987–1989 Alès B
Managerial career
1998–1999 Béziers Deveze
1999–2003 Sedan B
2007–2008 Coton Sport
2009–2011 Coton Sport
2011–2012 Cameroon
2013 Étoile du Sahel
2013–2014 Al Ittihad Alexandria
2014 Najran
2014–2015 Smouha
2015–2016 MAS Fez
2016 Free State Stars
2016–2017 Al-Hilal
2018–2019 CS Constantine
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Denis Lavagne (born 9 July 1964) is a French football coach and former player.

Playing career

Born in Béziers, Lavagne played for Le Havre B, Rouen B, Béziers, Alès, Orange and Alès B.[1]

Coaching career

After retiring from playing in 1989, Lavagne worked as an assistant manager with Alès, Nimes, Bastia and ASOA Valence.[1] He then worked as manager of Béziers Deveze between 1998 and 1999, before becoming a coach at Sedan and manager of Sedan B.[1] He left Sedan in 2003, and spent time coaching in Qatar (with Qatar SC) and in China (with Chengdu Blades).[1] He had two spells as manager of Coton Sport, separated by coaching with Moroccan club Difaâ Hassani El Jadidi.[1]

Lavagne left his job as manager of Coton Sport to become manager of the Cameroon national team in October 2011.[2][3] He was dismissed from this position in September 2012 following poor results.[4] He then became manager of Tunisian club Étoile du Sahel in March 2013,[5] and also later managed Egyptian club Al Ittihad and Saudi club Najran.[1] He took over as manager of Egyptian club Smouha in October 2014,[6] before being sacked in January 2015.[7] After managing Morrocan club MAS Fez,[1] he took over as manager of South African club Free State Stars in June 2016.[8] He was sacked by the club in September 2016.[9]

After managing Sudanese club Al-Hilal and a spell as a coach at French club Le Havre,[1] in December 2018 he became manager of Algerian club CS Constantine.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Profile". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Coton Sport's Lavagne takes over as new Cameroon coach". BBC Sport. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. ^ Kingsley Kobo (26 October 2011). "Official: Frenchman Denis Lavagne named Cameroon coach". Goal.com. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  4. ^ Leocadia Bongben (14 September 2012). "Cameroon dismiss coach Denis Lavagne". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  5. ^ Alexis Billebault (19 March 2013). "Denis Lavagne : " Je ne suis pas étonné par ce qui se passe au Cameroun "" (in French). Jeune Afrique. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  6. ^ Marwan Ibrahim (8 October 2014). "Official: Smouha appoint former Cameroon coach Denis Lavagne as manager". KingFut. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  7. ^ Adham Mira (8 January 2015). "Smouha sack French manager Denis Lavagne". KingFut. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  8. ^ Marc Gleeson (22 June 2016). "Free State Stars sign former Cameroon national team coach Denis Lavagne as their new mentor". Times Live. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  9. ^ Ernest Makhaya (22 September 2016). "Free State Stars sack head coach Denis Lavagne". Goal.com. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  10. ^ "CSC : Denis Labagne s'engage pour 18 mois" (in French). El Watan. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2019.


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