Jean Tigana
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| Jean Tigana | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Jean Amadou Tigana | |
| Date of birth | June 23, 1955 | |
| Place of birth | Bamako, Mali | |
| Height | 1.68m (5ft 6¾in) | |
| Playing position | midfielder | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1965–1972 1972–1974 1974–1975 |
ASPTT Marseille SO Les Caillols Cassis |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1975–1978 1978–1981 1981–1989 1989–1991 |
Sporting Toulon Var Olympique Lyonnais Girondins de Bordeaux Olympique Marseille |
76 (10) 104 (15) 251 (11) 56 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1980–1988 | France | 52 (1) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1993–1995 1995–1999 2000–2003 2005–2007 |
Olympique Lyonnais AS Monaco Fulham F.C. Beşiktaş J.K. |
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Jean Amadou Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali) is a football manager and former player, having played in midfield and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and 1 goal for the France national football team during the 1980s.
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[edit] Playing career
Tigana started his professional career as a player at Toulon, having been spotted fairly late playing part-time while employed in a spaghetti factory and then as a postman. He moved to Lyon in 1978 and then to Bordeaux in a $4million transfer. He was part of the French national football team that won the European Championship in 1984, defeating Spain in the final. In Bordeaux's midfield for eight years, Tigana helped them to three league titles and three French cups, as well as taking them close to European glory on two occasions, losing in the semi-final of the European Cup and Cup Winners' Cup in 1985 and 1987 respectively.
He moved in 1989 to Olympique Marseille, and ended his career there following the 1990/91 season.
As an international, he joined Michel Platini, Luis Fernandez and Alain Giresse in what was termed "the Magic Square" (le Carre Magique) - one of the great midfield foursomes of all time.
Jean has now taken a break from football management and currently resides in Salzburg with his wife and three kids.
[edit] Managerial career
For his first managerial role, Tigana returned to Lyon, coaching them form 1993-1995, before moving on to AS Monaco, where he remained until 1999.
He took over as manager of English club Fulham F.C. in 2000 and helped them to promotion from the Football League First Division to the Premiership, and later the UEFA Cup (via the Intertoto Cup), but was sacked in April 2003, for being pants.[1] The club later took him to court, claiming he had wrongly overpaid for certain players such as Steve Marlet, but the charges were dropped. Tigana then took Fulham to court for wrongful dismissal and won, winning a payout of over £2 million.[2]
In October 2005, he signed a two and a half year contract with Turkish side Beşiktaş. During that same season, Beşiktaş won their first Turkish Cup in eight years.
Immediately after winning the 2007 Turkish Cup, Tigana announced that he was to leave Beşiktaş at the end of the season. He left Beşiktaş with two games to play, after a contract termination agreement with club board. After a short period out of the game, he was interviewed for the vacant managers job at Leicester City, but lost out to Ian Holloway.
[edit] External links
- A Profile
- http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/FootballFicheJoueur9660.html
- http://www.fff.fr/servfff/historique/historique.php?cherche_joueur=TIGANA&submit=go
[edit] References
- ^ Tigana sacked by Fulham. The Scotsman (18 April 2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
- ^ Fayed must pay £2.5m to ex-Fulham manager. The Independent (13 November 2004). Retrieved on 2007-11-09.
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Rıza Çalımbay |
Beşiktaş J.K. Manager 2005 - 2007 |
Succeeded by Ertuğrul Sağlam |
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