Richard Déziré (born 24 September 1972) is a French

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and former player who played as a

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Early career

Born in

Mont-Saint-Aignan Mont-Saint-Aignan () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France. The inhabitants of the town of Mont-Saint-Aignan are called ''Mont-Saint-Aignanais'' in French. Due to the presence of higher educ ...

Seine-Maritime Seine-Maritime () is a department of France in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre. Until 1955 it was named Seine-Inféri ...

, Déziré played for Rouen, the major club in his local area, for whom he made eight appearances in Division 2, and went on to represent

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...

, Pacy Vallée-d'Eure,

Raon-l'Étape Raon-l'Étape ( or ) is a commune in the Vosges Department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Inhabitants are called ''Raonnais''. Geography Raon-l'Étape is positioned at the mouth of the at the point where it converges into the Meurthe, it ...

and Saint-Dié before retiring as a player in 2001.

Managerial career

Déziré began his managerial career the following year, with his old club, Raon-l'Étape. In his first season, he led them to promotion from the Championnat de France Amateur (CFA) to the third-tier

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, and kept them up for the next two seasons, albeit leaving it to the last match of the season in each case. After a season with

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, in which Déziré kept the team in the CFA, he quit. Déziré returned to Raon during the 2006–07 season, but was unable to prevent their relegation back to the CFA. He stayed for a further five years, and led the team to two appearances in the last 32 of the

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. He left at the end of the 2011–12 season, and joined CFA team

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. In his second season, Déziré led Avranches to promotion to the Championnat National, and kept them up in the 2014–15 season, as well as taking the team to the last 32 of the Coupe de France. Nevertheless, Déziré's contract was not renewed; the club's president Gilbert Guérin had no complaints about his footballing or financial performance but found him too difficult to work with. In June 2015, Déziré signed a two-year contract as manager of CFA2 club Le Mans. After four-and-a-half years, during which he led the team through three consecutive promotions, from the fifth tier back to Ligue 2, Déziré was dismissed on 23 February 2020 with the team second bottom of the table. In December 2020, Déziré was appointed manager of

Créteil Créteil () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Cr� ...

until the end of the 2020–21 season. On 24 February 2021, exactly two months after his appointment, Déziré was sacked following a just one league victory, and seeing his side knocked out of the Coupe de France. In May 2021, he was announced as manager of

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References

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