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Raymond Domenech (born February 1, 1979 in Lyon, Rhône) is a French football player and coach. He moved to the position of side defender from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s before playing as a coach from 1988 onwards and becoming a selector of the French team from 2004 to 2010. He has been president of the football coaches union in France since 2016.

A native of Lyon, he had most of his career at the Olympique Lyonnais, where he played from 1970 to 1978, with which he won the Coupe de France in 1973. He then wore the RC Strasbourg jersey with which he won the French championship in 1979. With the Paris Saint-Germain, he won the Coupe de France 1982 and the Girondins de Bordeaux, the French championship in 1984. He also played in the colours of FC Mulhouse.

He was selected eight times in the French football team between 1973 and 1979.

He became a coach in 1984 with FC Mulhouse when he was still a player and in 1988 he trained the Olympique Lyonnais, who won the 1989 French Division 2 title. In 1993, he became a selector of the French team hopes with which he reached the final of the European Championship of Hope in 2002 and won the Toulon Tournament in 2004.

He took over from the French team in 2004 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup, lost to the shots in goal (1-1 after extension). Raymond Domenech then severely failed in the first rounds of the Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup. He finished his career as a national breeder at the end of the 2010 World Cup, a failure against the background of internal controversy. With the French team, Domenech is the first selector to qualify his team for three final stages of three major competitions.

On December 26, 2020, after ten years of absence from the coaching bench, he was appointed coach of the Nantes Football Club for six months, but was dismissed after forty-six days following very disappointing results, not winning any of the eight lead games. He thus beats two records, that of having had the shortest reign under Waldemar Kita and being the first Canari coach not to win any in his first five games.

Biography

Youth

Raymond Domenech was born at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon. Her mother, Germaine, whom her father met in Châteauroux, is of Blackfoot origin. She is a worker in Meyzieu, Lyon. Raymond Domenech has three brothers and a half sister, born of the young woman's first marriage. Her father, Raimundo, works in a foundry. He was born in Spain in the southern province of Tarragona. Like his two brothers, he's a Republican activist, anti-Franco. After the end of World War II, he crossed the border illegally and then managed to find work and obtained papers in good standing