TROUSSIER Phillipe, “le Sorcier blanc”
Coach
Completely unknown when he arrived at ASEC Mimosas, Philippe Bernard TROUSSIER has managed to restore the game from yellow and black to win eventually as a true legend in the collective memory, in Côte d’Ivoire.

Philippe TROUSSIER admits. “It’s the ASEC my football coaching career took an international dimension. If I am what I am, today, it is thanks to ASEC Mimosas”, he told us, in an interview in 2007, in Casablanca. From December 1989 to December 1992, Philippe Bernard TROUSSIER, become Philippe Oumar TROUSSIER after his conversion to Islam a few years ago at the Morocco helped ASEC to build a good track record and himself had a reputation at the head of the technical supervision of Mimos. Three titles of champion of Côte d’Ivoire (1990, 1991 and 1992), one cup FHB(1990), a National Cup (1990), a section of the Union of Federations West-African (UFOA), in 1990, a semi-finalist of the African Cup of champions clubs (1992) and arecord of three seasons (74 matches) still uneven undefeated for twenty years in the national championship of first division football.
TROUSSIER is considered to be the coach who revolutionized the Ivorian football inthe 1990s. Despite its methods deemed difficult to bear, he managed to make the ASEC Mimosas best Ivorian team and one of the most feared on the continent. At such an extent that he was dubbed “the White Witch“. So the metamorphosis of ASEC Mimosas, a team that had won virtually nothing during the 1980s, was remarkable and impressive. Under TROUSSIER, ASEC won with panache. Shareholders werealmost always happy and jostled at the stadium to see their team play.
Unfortunately, no trophy CAF came reward the good work of the ‘White Wizard’ who, it is true, had fortune to work in a highly professional environment built by Me Roger OUEGNIN, the PCA of ASEC Mimosas, but also to have access to players of great talent such as KONATE Losséni, GADJI Céli, AKA Kouamé, IROHA Ben, TRAORE Abdoulaye dit Ben Badi, KASSY Kouadio Lucien, ABOUO Sam, ZARE Mamadou, FALLET Villasco and others. That was the downside.
After ASEC Mimosas, TROUSSIER became the coach of the Elephants, in 1993. Then he will deal, in turn, the Kaizer Chiefs in Johannesburg (1994), the was in Rabat (1995-1997) of the Super Eagles of Nigeria (1997), of the stallions of Burkina Faso (1998) of the Japan (1998–2002) with which he won the Asia CAN, of the Qatar (2003-2004) of Olympique de Marseille (November 2004 – May 2005), Lions of the Atlas (2005) and since 2008, he is the manager of FC Ryukyu a Japanese team.
Even today, the era Philippe TROUSSIER, ASEC Mimosas, marks the spirits of thosewho lived it.