Wilfried Nancy

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Wilfried Nancy
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Nancy in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1977-04-09) 9 April 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Le Havre, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Columbus Crew (head coach)
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005 UQAM Citadins
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1998 Toulon 9 (0)
1998–1999 Beaucairois 4 (0)
1999–2000 Raon-l'Étape 3 (0)
2000–2001 Ivry
2001–2002 Noisy-le-Sec 8 (1)
2002–2003 Châtellerault 2 (0)
2003–2005 Orléans
Managerial career
2011–2015 Montreal Impact Academy
2016–2021 Montreal Impact (assistant)
2021–2022 CF Montréal
2023– Columbus Crew
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Wilfried Nancy (born 9 April 1977) is a French professional football manager and former player who is the currently head coach of Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew. During his tenure at the Crew, he led the team to win MLS Cup 2023 and the 2024 Leagues Cup and finish as runners-up in the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup. [1]

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Early life

Nancy was born in Le Havre to a Guadeloupean father and Senegalese-Cape Verdean mother. His father was in the French navy, and Nancy therefore spent his early childhood frequently moving, with time in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Djibouti and Réunion. At the age of 11, his family moved to Toulon and there he started playing organized soccer before moving to the academy of Toulon at the age of 14. [2] [3]

Career

Nancy played professionally in France as a defender, and began his career with Toulon. He also had stints at various amateur and semi-professional clubs, including Beaucairois, Raon-l'Étape, Ivry, Noisy-le-Sec, Châtellerault, and Orléans before moving to Canada in August 2005 to play with the UQAM team. [2] [4] [5]

Managerial career

In 2005, Nancy became a coach for Collège Stanislas, while at the same time playing for his university team, UQAM Citadins. [2] His time at UQAM was brief, but remarkable, as he was voted most valuable player in Quebec, in addition to being named to the first all-star team in Quebec and Canada. He also helped the Citadins finish second in the Quebec conference. [6] After retiring as a footballer, Nancy became a full-time coach in 2006 and started coaching AAA soccer; the highest amateur league level in Québec. He coached Québec's provincial teams from 2007, and was also assistant technical director of the Association régionale de soccer de la Rive-Sud in 2008. [2] [7] [8]

He was part of the Montreal Impact Academy since its inception in 2011 starting with the U18s, then the U21s in 2014, followed by the U16s from 2014 to 2015. He was promoted to assistant coach for the first team on 7 January 2016. [8] [9]

On 8 March 2021, following Thierry Henry's resignation, Nancy was promoted to head coach for CF Montréal becoming the club's first coach following their re-branding from the Impact name. [9] [10] On 28 May 2021, after just seven games as head coach, it was announced that CF Montréal had exercised its option on Nancy's contract for the 2022 season. [11] [12] Nancy lead CF Montréal to the final of the 2021 Canadian Championship, beating Toronto FC 1–0, qualifying them for the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League. [13]

During the 2022 Major League Soccer season, Nancy's CF Montréal lost in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League to Cruz Azul. [14] On 9 July, Nancy and Montréal owner Joey Saputo got into a verbal altercation, with Saputo wanting to voice his frustration with the club's loss to bottom of the table Sporting KC. After that incident, Nancy requested to leave immediately, but changed his mind after discussing it with his players. [3] [15] [16] Nancy finished the 2022 regular season with the second-best record in the East, while setting numerous franchise-records including 20 wins (with an MLS record 11 road wins) and 65 points in the regular season. [17] During the playoffs, CF Montréal would end up losing to New York City FC in the conference semifinals. [18] Nancy narrowly lost the MLS Coach of the Year award, losing by one-tenth of a percentage point to Jim Curtin. [19] Due to a clause in his contract, Nancy's 2023 contract option was automatically triggered by the club making the 2022 MLS Cup Playoffs. [20]

Nancy was announced as the Columbus Crew head coach on 6 December 2022, after the Crew were required to compensate Montréal since Nancy was still under contract. [21] [22] In his first season as coach, the Crew finished third in the regular season, playing what observers described as an attractive style of football. [23] In the postseason, Columbus would overcome their archrivals FC Cincinnati in the conference finals, then outlast defending champions Los Angeles FC in the final. Nancy became the first Black coach to win MLS Cup. [24]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 3 November 2024
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNatFromToRecordRef
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
CF Montréal Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 8 March 20216 December 202279371725123105+18046.84 [25]
Columbus Crew Flag of the United States.svg 6 December 2022present94512419194118+76054.26[ citation needed ]
Total173884144317223+94050.87

Honors

CF Montreal

Columbus Crew

Individual

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  4. ↑ Ducharme, Jean-François (8 March 2021). "L'ancien Citadin Wilfried Nancy à la tête du CF Montréal" [At the head of CF Montreal]. Actualités UQAM (in French).
  5. ↑ "Première recrue pour Noisy-le-Sec". leparisien.fr (in French). 27 June 2001. Archived from the original on 15 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
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