Georges Tournay

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Georges Tournay
Personal information
Full name Georges Tournay
Date of birth (1960-10-06) 6 October 1960 (age 63)
Place of birth Cambrai, France
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Boulogne (manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1976–1977 Cambrai ? (?)
1977–1983 Lens 18 (0)
1983–1985 Abbeville 55 (8)
1985–1992 Louhans-Cuiseaux 159 (16)
Managerial career
2001 Lens
2012– Boulogne
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Georges Tournay (born 6 October 1960) is a French former professional footballer who is currently the manager of Championnat National side US Boulogne. During his career he played as a forward for Cambrai, Lens, Abbeville and Louhans-Cuiseaux and made over 200 league appearances in total. [1] After retiring in 1992 he became manager of the Lens C team and was then named reserve team coach two years later. Between 1999 and 2005, Tournay was the assistant manager at Lens, and had a four-month spell in charge of the first team between February 2001 and June 2001. He later worked as the head of youth development at the club before returning to the assistant manager post under László Bölöni in January 2011. [2]

Tournay was hired as head coach of Boulogne on 23 June 2012. [3] He was selected ahed of former Neuchâtel Xamax manager François Ciccolini and Carquefou trainer Denis Renaud. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Georges Tournay career statistics". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  2. ↑ "Georges Tournay". rclens.fr. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  3. ↑ Erwann Penland (23 June 2012). "Boulogne: Georges Tournay nouveau coach". foot-national.com. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "Georges Tournay est le nouvel entraîneur de l'USBCO". L'avenir de l'Artois. 23 June 2012. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2012.


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