Raoul Savoy

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Raoul Savoy
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-05-18) 18 May 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth Sainte-Croix, Switzerland
Team information
Current team
 Central African Republic (manager)
Managerial career
YearsTeam
2002–2003 Tonnerre Yaoundé
2003–2005 COD Meknes
2005–2006 SCC Mohammédia
2006 IR Tanger
2006–2007 Ethiopia
2007–2008 Swaziland
2009–2011 MC Oujda [ citation needed ]
2012 MC Oran
2013 MC El Eulma
2013 FC Sion II
2014–2015 Central African Republic
2015 Gambia
2017–2019 Central African Republic
2021–2024 Central African Republic

Raoul Savoy (born 18 May 1973) is a Swiss football coach who was the head coach of the Central African Republic national football team.

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Career

In 2012, he spent for the first time in Algeria managing MC Oran and in 2013 MC El Eulma. [1]

On 15 May 2015, Raoul was appointed the manager of Gambia national football team. [2] He quit in December 2015. [3]

In February 2017, he was one of a number of managers on the shortlist for the vacant Rwanda national team manager role. [4] He later became manager of Central African Republic staying until March 2019. [5] In August 2021, he was reappointed as head coach of Central African Republic for a third stint. [6]

On 24 October 2024, the Central African Ministry of Sport sacked Savoy as the Central African Republic national team manager. In return, he demanded the government to pay his unpaid salaries of 160,000 euros. [7]

Personal life

Born in Switzerland, Savoy is of Spanish descent. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Raoul Savoy a new coach of MC Oran". elmoudjahid.com. El-Moudjahid. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ Momodou Bah (14 May 2015). "BBC Sport - Raoul Savoy unveiled to local media as coach of the Gambia". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Raoul Savoy says he quit as The Gambia boss and was not sacked". BBC Sport. 8 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Oluwashina Okeleji (14 February 2017). "Samson Siasia and Winfried Schafer on Rwanda coach shortlist". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "CAR's coach Raoul Savoy says football is 'unifying the country'". BBC Sport. 21 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Centrafrique : Officiel ! Raoul Savoy nommé sélectionneur ... pour la troisième fois" (in French). Africa Top Sports. 23 August 2021.
  7. ↑ Domia-leu, Rolf Steve. "Football: divorce douloureux entre la Centrafrique et son sélectionneur Raoul Savoy". rfi.fr. Radio France Internationale. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  8. ↑ "Football et voyage, épisode 2 - Raoul Savoy le Vaudois qui a parcouru toute l'Afrique".
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