Claude Le Roy

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Claude Le Roy
Full name	Claude Le Roy
Date of birth	February 6, 1948 (1948-02-06) (age 60)
Place of birth	Bois-Normand-près-Lyre, France
Playing position	Manager
Club information
Current club	Ghana
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1968-70 1970-73 1973-77 1977-80 1980-81	FC Rouen AC Ajaccio Avignon Foot 84 Stade Lavallois Amiens SC	?
Teams managed
1980-83 1983-85 1985 1985-88 1990-92 1992-95 1998 1998-00 2001-03 2004-04 2004-06 2006-2008	Amiens SC Grenoble Al-Shabab Cameroon Senegal Malaysia Cameroon Strasbourg Shanghai Cosco Cambridge United DR Congo Ghana
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Claude Le Roy (born in Bois-Normand-près-Lyre, February 6, 1948) is a French football manager and former player, currently in charge of the Ghana national team.

Le Roy has had a varied managerial career, starting out at the small French club Amiens SC, after taking over as manager when his playing days ended. His achievement of leading the Cameroon national team to runners-up in the 1986 African Cup of Nations, and then champions in the 1988 competition are often cited as his greatest managerial accomplishments^[1]. He also took charge of Senegal when they reached the quarterfinals at the 1992 African Cup of Nations, and returned to Cameroon to lead them during the 1998 World Cup.

After undertaking the role of football adviser at AC Milan in 1996, Le Roy had a spell as Director of Football at Paris Saint-Germain (1997-98). Le Roy became manager of Cambridge United for a short spell in 2004, although he only ever signed a "moral contract"^[2], and now claims he was only ever assisting his friend and prodigy Herve Renard: "I was just helping out a friend [then-manager Hervé Renard], but we saved that club".^[1] Following his departure from Cambridge, Le Roy was appointed as the head coach of the DR Congo. In September 2006, Le Roy was named by the Ghana Football Association as the coach for the Ghana national football team.^[3]

In February 2008 he led them to 14th position in the FIFA World Rankings, their highest position ever.

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^ ^a ^b Lion-hearted Leroy leading the 'Simbas' football.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2007
^ Claude Le Roy: "A moral contract only..." bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2007
^ Le Roy signs Ghana deal ghanafa.org. Retrieved 16 July 2007

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Everything you need to know about Ghana's new coach

v • d • e Cameroon squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup

1 Songo'o • 2 Elanga • 3 Wome • 4 Song • 5 Kalla • 6 Njanka • 7 Omam‑Biyik • 8 Angibeaud • 9 Tchami • 10 Mboma • 11 Eto'o • 12 Lauren • 13 Abanda • 14 Simo • 15 Ndo • 16 William • 17 Pensée • 18 Ipoua • 19 Mahouvé • 20 Olembé • 21 Job • 22 Boukar • Coach: Le Roy

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RC Strasbourg – Managers

Bongard (1928–30) • Riebe (1930–32) • Neureuther (1932–33) • Fischer (1933–34) • Kerr (1934–35) • Blum (1935–38) • Rumblod (1938–39) • Bostelaar (1941–44) • Veinante (1945–47) • Andrup (1947–48) • Veinante (1948–49) • Nicolas (1949–52) • Humpal (1952–55) • Heisserer (1955–56) • Avellaneda (1956–57) • Faczinek (1957–58) • Humpal (1958–60) • Veinante (1960–61) • Jonquet (1961–64) • Frantz (1964–66) • Presch (1966–67) • Hauss (1967–68) • Frantz (1968–70) • Mateo (1970–71) • Csaknady (1971) • Frantz (1971) • Nowotarski (1971–73) • Domergue (1973–74) • Hollink (1974–75) • Frantz (1975–76) • Schilcher (1976) • Schwartz (1976–77) • Gress (1977–80) • Hild (1980–81) • Lemerre (1981–83) • Sundermann (1983–85) • Huck (1985) • Piasecki (1985–86) • Six (1986) • Herbin (1986–87) • Kasperczak (1987–88) • Dogliani (1988) • Banide (1988–89) • Gemmrich (1989) • Specht (1989–91) • Gress (1991–94) • Jeandupeux (1994–95) • Duguépéroux (1995–98) • Girard (1998) • Mankowski (1998–99) • Le Roy (1999–00) • Pouliquen (2000–01) • Hašek (2001–03) • Kombouaré (2003–04) • Duguépéroux (2004–06) • Papin (2006–07) • Furlan (2007-) •

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Cambridge United F.C. – Managers

Target (1948) • Hartley (1949–50) • Whittaker (1951–55) • Williams (1955) • Johnson (1955–59) • Craig (1959) • Moore (1960–63) • Kirk (1963–66) • Wynn (1966–67) • Leivers (1967–74) • Atkinson (1974–78) • Docherty (1978–83) • Cozens (1983–84) • Ryan (1984–85) • Cozens (1985) • Shellito (1985–86) • Turner (1986–90) • Beck (1990–92) • Johnson (1992) • Atkins (1992–93) • Johnson (1993–95) • T. Taylor (1995–96) • McFarland (1996–2001) • Beck (2001) • J. Taylor (2001–04) • Le Roy (2004) • Renard (2004) • Thompson (2004–05) • Newman (2005–06) • Quinn (2006–)