Amadou Jean Tigana (born 23 June 1955) is a French former
footballer
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and
coach
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. He has played in
midfield
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and managed professional football extensively throughout France, including 52 appearances and one goal for the
France national football team
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during the 1980s. He most recently coached
Chinese Super League
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outfit
Shanghai Shenhua
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. In his prime, he was a tireless
central midfielder
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, renowned as one of the best midfielders in the world during the 1980s.
Club 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
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...
in 1978 and then to
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...
in a $4 million transfer. 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
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, and ended his career there following the 1990–91 season, winning two consecutive league titles,
and reaching the
European Cup Final during the latter season, only to be defeated by
Red Star Belgrade
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on penalties following a 0–0 draw.
International career
Tigana was born in
Bamako
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,
French Sudan
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(now Mali) to a Malian father and a French mother. He represented France, and as an international Tigana joined
Michel Platini
Michel François Platini (born 21 June 1955) is a French football administrator and former player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times in a row, in 1983, 1984 and 1985, a ...
,
Luis Fernandez
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Fernandez spent most of his playing career for Paris Saint-Germain. He earned 6 ...
and
Alain Giresse
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in what was termed "the Magic Square" (le Carré Magique) – one of the greatest midfield foursomes of all time.
He was part of the France national football team that won
UEFA Euro 1984
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on home soil, defeating
Spain
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, i ...
in the
final
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.
Tigana's single international goal came against
Hungary
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in the
1986 FIFA World Cup
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finals, in which France managed a third-place finish.
Playing style
Tigana was a world-class
box-to box midfielder
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, who usually played in the centre, and who was noted for his great movement, teamwork, pace and tireless stamina. Although Tigana was mainly responsible for his team's
defensive
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duties, he also often ventured forward to create scoring opportunities for his teammates. His work ethic and expansive range of passing, from both long and short range, made him an excellent distributor which, when combined with his close control and simplistic yet efficient
dribbling
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A ...
technique, made him a world–class midfielder. He was also well known for his contributions in the more advanced areas of the pitch, due to his ability to spot and execute defense splitting passes.
Managerial career
For his first managerial role, Tigana returned to
Lyon
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, coaching them from 1993 to 1995, before moving on to
AS Monaco
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, where he remained until 1999. They were French league champions in 1997 and Champions League semi-finalists a year later, beating
Manchester United
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in the quarter-finals.
He took over as manager of English club
Fulham
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in April 2000
and helped them to promotion from the
Division One
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to the
FA Premier League
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as champions in his first full season. They finished 13th in their first top flight season for more than 30 years and qualified for the
UEFA Cup
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(via the
Intertoto Cup
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), but was sacked in April 2003, even though Fulham weren't in danger of going down at this stage.
[
] The club later took him to court, claiming he had wrongly overpaid for certain players such as
Steve Marlet
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, but the charges were dropped. Tigana then took Fulham to court for wrongful dismissal and won, winning a payout of over £2 million.
[
]
In October 2005, after a two years plus game hiatus, he signed a two and a half-year contract with
Turkish side
Beşiktaş. During that same season, Beşiktaş won the
Turkish Cup
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following an eight years hiatus.
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
Ligue 1
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coaching joining
Bordeaux
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, replacing
Laurent Blanc
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.
On 7 May 2011, after a severe defeat against Sochaux (0–4) and a verbal aggression from Bordeaux team fans against his daughter, who was in the stadium, he announced that he was to leave the Girondins de Bordeaux.
On 18 December 2011, it was announced that Tigana would coach
Shanghai Shenhua
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from the 2012 season. On 15 April 2012, Tigana resigned as manager of Shanghai Shenhua after a run of poor form leaving the Chinese club in the bottom five of its domestic league.
Career statistics
Club
International
Managerial record
Honours
Player
Club
Bordeaux
*
Division 1:
1983–84,
1984–85,
1986–87
*
Coupe de France
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:
1985–86,
1986–87
Marseille
*Division 1:
1989–90,
1990–91
International
France
*
UEFA European Championship
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:
1984
*
FIFA World Cup
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third place:
1986
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; fourth place:
1982
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Individual
*Division 1 Rookie of the Year: 1980
*
French Player of the Year: 1984
*
Onze d'Argent: 1984
*
Ballon d'Or
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runner-up: 1984
*
UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament At the end of each UEFA European Championship tournament, several awards are attributed to the players and teams which have distinguished from the rest, in different aspects of the game.
Awards
There are currently five post-tournament awards, and o ...
:
1984
*
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team
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Awards
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: 1986
*
Onze de Bronze: 1987
Manager
Club
Monaco
*Division 1:
1996–97
*
Trophée des Champions
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His ...
:
1997
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Fulham
*
Football League First Division
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:
2000–01
*
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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:
2002
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Beşiktaş
*
Turkish Cup
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:
2005–06,
2006–07
*
Turkish Super Cup
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:
2006
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Individual
*
French Division 1 Manager of the Year: 1997
*
French Manager of the Year: 1997
References
External links
*
FFF.fr profile
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1955 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bamako
French footballers
French football managers
France international footballers
Malian footballers
French people of Malian descent
SC Toulon players
Olympique Lyonnais players
FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
Olympique de Marseille players
Olympique Lyonnais managers
Fulham F.C. managers
Beşiktaş J.K. managers
FC Girondins de Bordeaux managers
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 1 managers
Premier League managers
Süper Lig managers
1982 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 1984 players
1986 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA European Championship-winning players
Association football midfielders
Malian emigrants to France
Expatriate football managers in England
Expatriate football managers in Turkey
Shanghai Shenhua F.C. managers
Expatriate football managers in China
French expatriate football managers
French expatriate sportspeople in England
French expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
French expatriate sportspeople in China
Black French sportspeople
Chinese Super League managers