France appoints Lemerre as new coach
First Published: Jul 27, 1998France have appointed Roger Lemerre as the new coach of the World Cup winning national side.
Lemerre has coached numerous times amongst the smaller regional club sides in France and was the deputy to Aime Jacquet who has moved on from his coaching triumph at winning the World Cup earlier this month to being the new technical director of French football.
AS Monaco Jean Tigana wanted to stay in club football so the FFF have promoted from inside the present coaching structure that produced the World Cup winning performance. 57 year old Lemerre will take charge of the side for the first time on August 19th in Vienna in a friendly against Austria. Then he faces the test of taking the world champions through the qualifying stage of the next European Championships in the year 2000. That begins on September 5th witha game in Iceland.
Lemerre's previous international experience came in 1995 when he took the French side to the world military games title.
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