Coaches of legend | ASEC Mimosas

FABRE Guy. Who was Guy – Science?

Coach and player

From Sète (France), former employee at Jean Abil Gal, the Olympic Club of Abidjan(OCA) Player, Guy FABRE became the first real coach of ASEC Mimosas, in 1954. The philosophy of the game he then imposed still characterizes the ASEC of today.

Happened to ASEC Mimosas in the offseason, 1953-1954, thanks to Ignace WOGNIN, AKOUATE Benjamin, Chase stone, ACHI Ernest, four young players Mimos at the time who introduced it with their leaders, Guy FABRE became, in a very short time,the coach emblematic of ASEC Mimosas. # who helped create the legend “kids”. Because for Guy FABRE, the simplicity of the game and the correctness of the choiceof the players is the basis of success in football. It was immediately applied to teach the ABC of the sport to its players. He helped them to improve their technical skills and the round was played. ASEC Mimosas, with its youth of the time, becomes the game very pleasant and effective training. In his first season as coach of ASEC Mimosas in 1954, Guy FABRE finished the national championship undefeated. Not conceding only two games draws to his opponents. The same year, ASEC played the Cup final of the AOF she unfortunately lost on a heavy score (7-0), Dakar, in the face of the US Gorée. Two years later, in 1956, always under the guidance of Guy-the-science as it was called, ASEC Mimosas manages again in the final of the cup of the AOF she loses 3-0 to the Joan of Arc of Bamako. In 1958, the ASEC played his third final of the cup of the AOF. But bad luck she knew at the beginning is still there. Mimosas are still losing against their eternal rivals of the Eaglets of Africa Sports (0-5).

But each time, all fell under the spell of the legendary coach players, Guy FABRE. This man was highly respected by his players, its leaders and supporters mimosas. For the former, he was both rigorous, authoritative, but open and understanding coach. He was also the “Daddy” who helped them financially, who paid even the tuition of some players. For the latter, he was an excellent coach who met their expectations. A competent technician and who had character. For the latter, the supportersof ASEC Mimosas, he was Guy-the-science. See the beautiful game of his team, football was no secret to this man.

Unfortunately, after independence, Guy FABRE did not stay long at the head of ‘his’ASEC Mimosas. By the force of things, he went into exile in Cameroon, then to Burkina Faso, then to Cameroon. He returned to ivory coast in 1979 and was given the reins of ASEC Mimosas. Unfortunately, riddled with disease, he died during the season. The circle is complete. FABRE is come home to die with his heart and Ivory Coast club ASEC Mimosas this country gave him happiness, and he loved so much. GuyFABRE, the legendary coach of ASEC Mimosas couldn’t have asked for better purpose.K. Ismaël

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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.

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ZARE Mamadou, l’enfant mimos
Coach and player

Player, then coach of ASEC Mimosas, Mamadou ZARE has marked the life of the club by becoming the first local coach to qualify the ASEC Mimosas in a final of the African Cup of champions clubs.

The peculiarity of Mamadou ZARE, it’s his ineffable love for the ASEC Mimosas. # tothe point that he made throughout his career as player in this club, since the minimal until senior team. After will be converted to the profession of coaching football, he has been a moment of training center with which he won the national Junior Championship before attending to the professional team in 1995. That year, ZARE andASEC Mimosas buy everything in Côte d’Ivoire (Cup FHB, national championships, National Cup, Federation Cup). Unfortunately, they lose (0-1) final C1, the first in the history of the club, in Abidjan, facing Orlando Pirates of South Africa, so the Mimosas were kept in check (2-2) Buccaneers South Africans, to go, in Johannesburg.

A gifted to the sober game

At ASEC Mimosas, in 1973, with N’DIAYE Aboubacar, Bakary KONE, Youssouf FOFANA and many others, Mamadou ZARE, who was only 11 years old, sharpens his weapons in the various categories of youth club, for eight years. It was in 1981 that Luis Oscar FULLONE Arce, one of the emblematic club coaches, run into the deep end ofthe elite of national football. ZARE grabbed the pole and hold more. Player character, but also temperamental, he is fiery, ambitious and don’t like defeats. Combative,versatile, technical, clever, unpredictable striker, ZARE becomes the key player of ASEC Mimosas for 10 years (1981-1991) and of all the solutions for differentcoaches. Sometimes middle, sometimes attacking, then axial Defender near the end of his career, Mamadou ZARE is a gifted, but his sober game, although effective,does not have an aura of star.

A master stroke when he puts an end to his career, in 1991, Mamadou ZARE’s 28. President Roger OUEGNIN, who finds him the qualities of a good technician, he entrusted the technical supervision of cadets and juniors. In 1993, under the leadership of Mamadou ZARE, juniors from ASEC Mimosas won the national championship intheir class. The following year, Me Roger OUEGNIN provides Mamadou ZARE of Sabé sports de Bouna (Ivorian D1) to help him prepare his weapons to coach. Still learning to ‘Zébia’ as a time call it friends. Then, in 1995, Me Roger OUEGNIN, the bossof ASEC Mimosas, deems ready to take care of the technical supervision of Mimos. He confided it to her. And for a first attempt, Mamadou ZARE succeeds a master stroke. With him, ASEC Mimosas made a RAID at the national level and fails in final of C1 in the face of Orlando Pirates. The second season of ZARE, as coach of Mimos, is unsavoury. Only the FHB Cup falls into the hands of the club. In 1996, ZARE is the Abidjan Stadium. In 1997, he became assistant coach Philippe TROUSSIER, in thetechnical supervision of standards, the national team of Burkina Faso. After the 98CAN at the end of which Burkina Faso finished in the fourth place, Mamadou ZAREreturns to the fold and in turn, causes the Séwé sports de San Pedro and Issia WaziValley Football Club of Bouaké before creating its AZFC (Academy Zare Football Club) training center. He died Thursday, may 3, 2007, after a long illness, at the age of 45 years.

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FULLONE Luis Oscar, “El Profesor”

Coach

Nicknamed “El Profesor” by Me Roger OUEGNIN, the boss of ASEC Mimosas, the Argentine coach Luis Oscar FULLONE, loved the yellow and black club that he eventually became the first service to offer the trophy to a League of champions the Mimosas in 1998. #.

Born April 4, 1939, in La Plata (Argentina), Luis Oscar FULLONE Arce arrived in Côte d’Ivoire, in 1982, from Sion (Switzerland) to replace Hassan, a Tunisian technicianwho led ASEC Mimosas. This first experience of the Argentine, in Africa, lasted three seasons (1982, 1983, 1984), Oscar FULLONE and ASEC Mimosas won only one National Cup and a cup of FHB, in 1983. Lean harvest for this popular club, but the inorganisation and the instability of its steering committees leadened performance.

Twelve years later, in 1997, Me Roger OUEGNIN leading ASEC Mimosas for seven years, brings back Luis Oscar FULLONE for entrust again the technical supervision ofhis club. The Mimosas come out almost white season in 1996 with only the trophyFHB. The failure of the club to the final of the C1, Saturday, December 16, 1995, inAbidjan, in the face of Orlando Pirates of South Africa, had been severely felt in theyellow and black family and explained, in part, this slump. Soon, Oscar FULLONE has the merit to restart training mimosas. It becomes the locomotive of Ivorian football. She realizes the double (Championship and the Cup), in 1997. The following year, in 1998, Luis Oscar FULLONE led ASEC Mimosas to his first continental title inthe champions League. Thanks to this consecration, “El Profesor” between in the pantheon of coaches of legend of ASEC Mimosas.

In 1999, when he left ASEC Mimosas for the Casablanca Raja Club Athletic, Luis Oscar FULLONE won the champions League and the African Super Cup in early 2000. In 2002, with the WAC, he won the penultimate edition of the African Cup WinnersCup against the Asante Kotoko of Kumasi. Becoming one of the most successful coaches of the continent having won the C1, the C2 and the African Super Cup of clubswith different clubs.

Initially, now coach of the Kenitra Athletic Club of the Morocco where it comes to extend his three-year contract, Oscar FULLONE was football to Estudiantes LP, Independiente Medellin, Real Oviedo and Aston Villa player. Converted coach of football at the end of his career, Luis Oscar FULLONE entraîna of South American and European clubs before coming to know the glory in Africa. This continent he loves so muchand for which he continues to give the best of himself in the field of football.

K. Ismaël

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