Jean Tigana

Jean Tigana
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Personal information
Full name Jean Amadou Tigana
Date of birth 23 June 1955 (1955-06-23) (age 55)
Place of birth    Bamako, French Sudan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Central Midfielder
Youth career
1965–1972
1972–1974
1974–1975
ASPTT Marseille
SO Les Caillols
Cassis
Senior career1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1975–1978
1978–1981
1981–1989
1989–1991
Toulon
Lyon
Bordeaux
Marseille
076 (10)
104 (15)
251 (11)
056 0(0)   
National team
1980–1988 France 052 0(1)
Teams managed
1993–1995
1995–1999
2000–2003
2005–2007
2010–
Lyon
Monaco
Fulham
Beşiktaş
Bordeaux

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Jean Amadou Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, French Sudan) 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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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 Carré Magique) - one of the great midfield foursomes of all time. Tigana's single international goal came against Hungary in the 1986 World Cup finals.

Managerial career

For his first managerial role, Tigana returned to Lyon, coaching them from 1993–1995, before moving on to AS Monaco, where he remained until 1999.

He took over as manager of English club Fulham in 2000 and helped them to promotion from the Football League First Division to the FA Premier League, and later the UEFA Cup (via the Intertoto Cup), but was sacked in April 2003.[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. On 25 May 2010, Tigana returned to coaching joining Ligue 1 club Bordeaux. He replaced Laurent Blanc.[3]

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