Reynald Pedros (born 10 October 1971) is a French professional
football manager
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and former
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who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. He currently manages the
Morocco women's national team.
Club career
Pedros was born in
Orléans
Orléans (;["Orleans"](_blank)
(US) and [attacking midfielder
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, formed in Nantes. He was part of the magic trio of
FC Nantes
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with
Patrice Loko
Patrice Loko (born 6 February 1970) is French former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Career
Loko began his career at Nantes and then moved on to Paris Saint-Germain, where he was part of the team that won the 1996 Cup Winners' ...
and
Nicolas Ouédec
Nicolas Pierre Ouédec (born 28 October 1971) is a retired French professional footballer who played as a striker.
Club career
Born in Lorient, Morbihan, Ouédec was a product of FC Nantes's famous youth academy. He made his Ligue 1 debuts at ...
. He won the
Ligue 1
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title with Nantes in 1995. The following year he reached the semi-finals of the
UEFA Champions League
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.
International career
Pedros represented the
France national team. His career bears some similarity to
David Ginola
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A former forward, Ginola played football for ten seasons in France before moving from Paris Saint-G ...
's – a mistake in the last
1994 FIFA World Cup
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qualifying match leading to French elimination, and subsequently being dropped from the national team.
Before
UEFA Euro 1996
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, he was considered one of the best French midfielders, on par with
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (; born 23 June 1972), popularly known as Zizou, is a French professional football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He most recently coached Spanish club Real Madrid and is one of the most ...
, and was selected for the tournament. France reached the semi-final to face the
Czech Republic
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, and the two teams could not be separated over ninety minutes. The match thus went into
extra time
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and subsequently a
penalty shoot-out
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. After five successful penalties for each team, Pedros was to take the first of the penalties in
sudden death. His shot was weak and slow, and was easily saved by the Czech goalkeeper,
Petr Kouba
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.
Miroslav Kadlec
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During his career, Kadlec played for four Czech clubs, and also had an eight-year stint with Bundesliga's 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he was crowned league ...
came to take the next penalty, scored it, and knocked France out of the tournament.
Following this elimination, Pedros was made a pariah by the media and was greatly disliked by French fans. He attempted to make a comeback, in
Ligue 2
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, but he was never able to come back to the top of his game.
Managerial career
On 2 June 2017, Pedros took over as head coach of
Olympique Lyonnais Féminin
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. He led them to retain the
Division 1 Féminine
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championship for the 12th and 13th time. He also succeeded in guiding the team to retaining the
UEFA Women's Champions League
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The ...
for the 3rd and 4th time.
In November 2020, Pedros became the coach of the
Moroccan women's national team.
This recruitment takes place in the context of the massive effort made by the
FRMF and its President Fouzi Lekjaa to develop women's football in Morocco, particularly mass football, with the aim of becoming a stronghold of
women's football at continental and world level. His first tournament was the
2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, which would mark a historic milestone as he guided Morocco to reach the final of the WAFCON for the first time in its only third appearance, including the famous penalty win over African titan
Nigeria
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in the semi-finals, which was seen as a redemption for his penalty defeat in Euro 1996.
Career statistics
International goals
:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pedros goal''.
Honours
Manager
Lyon
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Division 1 Féminine
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:
2017–18,
2018–19
*
Coupe de France Féminine
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The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the French past parti ...
: 2018–19
*
UEFA Women's Champions League
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The ...
:
2018–19,
2019–20
References
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1971 births
Living people
Footballers from Orléans
French footballers
Association football midfielders
FC Nantes players
Olympique de Marseille players
Parma Calcio 1913 players
S.S.C. Napoli players
Olympique Lyonnais players
Montpellier HSC players
Toulouse FC players
SC Bastia players
Al-Khor SC players
Ligue 1 players
Serie A players
Qatar Stars League players
Competitors at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in football
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France
France under-21 international footballers
France international footballers
UEFA Euro 1996 players
French football managers
Olympique Lyonnais Féminin managers
French expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Qatar
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
French expatriate sportspeople in Italy
French expatriate sportspeople in Qatar
French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
French people of Spanish descent
Women's national association football team managers