Camillo Vaz (born 26 September 1975) is a French football coach who is the current manager of

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GPSO 92 Issy Grand Paris Seine Ouest 92 Issy (commonly known as GPSO 92 Issy or simply Issy) are a French women's football team based in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The club currently compete in Division 2 Féminine, the Second Division of women's football in Fra ...

. From 2009 to 2012, he was the manager of

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Personal life

Vaz is from

Suresnes Suresnes () is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. Located in Hauts-de-Seine, from the centre of Paris, it had a population of 49,145 as of 2016. The nearest communes are Nanterre, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Cloud an ...

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, France. He is of Portuguese origin, and is married, with two children. As a youngster, Vaz played football for

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. He has also worked as a sports teacher.

Career

From 2009 to 2012, Vaz managed

. During that time, PSG won the 2009–10 Challenge de France, after beating

Montpellier HSC Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (), commonly referred to as Montpellier HSC or simply Montpellier, is a French professional football club based in the city of Montpellier in Occitanie. The original club was founded in 1919, while the current i ...

5–0 in the final. PSG also came second in the

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, finishing behind

Olympique Lyonnais Féminin Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (; commonly referred to as Olympique Lyon, Lyon, or simply OL) is a French women's football club based in Lyon. The club has been the female section of Olympique Lyonnais since 2004. It is the most successful club ...

. PSG qualified for the

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, the first time in their history that they had qualified for the tournament. They reached the round of 16 before being eliminated by

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. Whilst Vaz was manager of PSG, the club was taken over by

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. Vaz signed Brazilian footballer Kátia Cilene Teixeira from Division 1 Féminine champions Lyon. Vaz was supportive of more women managing Division 1 Féminine clubs; in the 2011–12 season, only three of the 12 Division 1 Féminine teams were managed by women. Vaz left PSG in 2012, after the club failed to qualify for the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, and were knocked out in the semi-finals of the 2011–12 Coupe de France Féminine. He was replaced by

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, who had been managing the

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. In 2014, Vaz released a book ''Football Féminin'' about his experience of coaching women's football teams. He later worked as a coach at

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in Paris. In February 2021, Vaz was announced as the manager of

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, replacing . Vaz had to deal with players' discontent at the dismissal of Yacine Guesmia after five years in charge, and general unhappiness with the club's management. Many players boycotted Vaz's first training session in protest; some players considered refusing to play in GPSO 92 Issy's next match, but all players then agreed to play. His first match in charge of GPSO 92 Issy was against PSG. Issy were 11th out of 12 teams in Division 1 Féminine when Vaz arrived. Issy were initially relegated to

at the end of the 2020–21 season, but the

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later reprieved Issy, meaning that they would compete in the

2021–22 Division 1 Féminine The 2021–22 Division 1 Féminine season, also known as D1 Arkema for sponsorship reasons, was the 48th edition of Division 1 Féminine since its establishment in 1974. The season began on 27 August 2021 and ended on 1 June 2022. Paris Saint-Ger ...

. Issy were relegated to

for the 2022–2023 season.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vaz, Camillo 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Suresnes French people of Portuguese descent French football managers Paris Saint-Germain Féminine managers GPSO 92 Issy Academic staff of Sciences Po