Ivan Jacky Minnaert is a Belgian football coach who is currently assigned to Al-Ittihad Tripoly of the

Libyan Premier League The Libyan Premier League ( ar, الدوري الليبي الممتاز) is the men's top professional football division of the Libyan football league system. Administered by the Competition Organizing Committee in the Libyan Football Federatio ...

as of 2018/2019. He holds an UEFA Pro Licence, the highest football coaching qualification. He received the UEFA Pro Licence in 2012 from the Football Association of Spain.

Career

Mali

Presented the head coach of

Djoliba AC Djoliba Athletic Club is a Malian football club and one of the two biggest teams in Mali alongside the Stade Malien. The team is based in the capital city of Bamako. It has its headquarters and three training stadia at Complex Sportif Héréma ...

in autumn 2014, Minnaert set his sights on staying at the club for ten years and earning at least one trophy for them but stepped down from his position in 2015 when Djoliba games were invalidated, causing relegation to the second division before visiting Mali again in 2017.

Kenya

Negotiating a contract with

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of the

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in early 2016, the Belgian signed a two-year deal with ''Ingwe'' in late February, ending the unbeaten run of 35 games in the KPL of Gor Mahia, voted KPL coach of the month March but was fired by August for poor results, including a six-game winless run, despite being second early on, with some urging him to step down beforehand. In the end, he decided to sue AFC Leopards for salaries owed, which amounted to 24000

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Guinea

Replacing Adda Benamar at

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in mid 2017, Minnaert made the quarterfinals of the

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, his task was to escape relegation what he did.

South Africa

Assisting fellow Belgian

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of the South African

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in late autumn 2017, the former director became caretaker of the team a few days later, making it the objective to achieve promotion and applied an offensive system in the team. However, when directing them to 10th place in 15 matches, he was slated to be fired.

Rwanda

Accepting a six-month contract with Mukura Victory at the start of 2017, the former Rayon Sport coach pledged to improve results and turn around the season, beating Pepiniere 1-0 in his debutMineart looks to bring winning mentality back to Mukura VS
The New Times Rwanda at the end of his contract arranging a deal with

of Guinea that summer. Head coach of

Rayon Sports Rayon Sports Football Club is an association football club from Nyanza, Southern province, Rwanda, now based in Kigali. The team currently competes in the Rwanda National Football League, and plays its home games at the Stade Amahoro in Kigal ...

of the

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from November 2015 to February 2016, he was awarded another contract with ''Gikundiro'' in spring 2018, taking them to the

2018 CAF Confederation Cup The 2018 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2018 Total CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), under the cur ...

, historic qualification of a Rwandian team, where they were pooled with

USM Alger Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger ( ar, الإتحاد الرياضي لمدينة الجزائر); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its co ...

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, and

Gor Mahia Gor Mahia Football Club (), commonly also known as ''K'Ogalo'' (), is a football club based in Nairobi, Kenya. They have won the Kenyan Premier League a record 19 times, and have also won the FKF President's Cup a record 11 times. They are the o ...

in Group D and stated that reaching the quarterfinals would be an onerous task.#CAFCC Not easy but normal: Rayon Sports’ Ivan Minnaert reacts to the Saturday draw
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Libya

Appointed as technical director of the academy and head coach of the U20, the 3 teams under his supervision win all the games of the league (U15 : 9 wins ; U17 : 9 wins ; U20 : 9 wins) In a friendly game against the first team, the team he coached (the U20) impress everybody. A few weeks later he take over the first team and started with a 2-0 win against AlIttihad Misrata, after a 3-0 win against Rafeeq the league stopped in April due to the circumstances in the country. After a break of 4 months he started a short preparation of 2 weeks to classify Al Ittihad for the 1/16 finals of the CAF Confederation cup against USGN of Niger (1-1 away game and 2-0 win home game) Stats : First division Libyan league : 2 Games 2 Wins (goals 5-0) Caf Confederation Cup : 2 Games 1 draw 1 win (goals 3-1) Al_Ittihad

CAF Competitions

CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : WINS 3 DRAW 1 LOST 1 CAF CONFEDERATION CUP : WINS 4 DRAW 2 LOST 2 CAF GROUP STAGE : WINS 2 DRAW 3 LOST 1 Caf_CC

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