Régis Manon (22 October 1965 – 1 January 2018) was a Gabonese professional

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player and coach.

Career

Born in

Libreville Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon. Occupying in the northwestern province of Estuaire, Libreville is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea. As of the 2013 census, its population was 703,904. The area has been inh ...

, Manon played club football for

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, Tours B,

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and

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. He also played for the Gabonese national team, and was a squad member at the

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. He later became a coach, for teams including

Mounana Mounana is a town in Gabon. It lies on the N3 road and from 1958 until the 1990s was a major uranium mining centre. The mine is now closed, and it is now primarily a centre for agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultiva ...

and Akanda.

References

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