Coaching path Rudy Garcia

Rudy Garcia was born in the distant 1964 in the family of a professional football player. Rudy's father, who once acted as part of not the most famous French teams ("Sedan" and "Dunkirk") largely determined the future passion and profession of his son. It was he who first took his son to the training of the youth team "Korbei-Esson", whose pupil Rudy is.

Career football player

Debut Rudy Garcia as a player held for the main team, "Lille" in the 1983/84 season. For this club Garcia played 5 seasons, and, as it turned out later, devoted most of his short career to him.

In 1988, the footballer moved to the football club "Cannes", speaking in the second most powerful division of France, and in 1991 took another transition - to "Martigues".

Professional career Rudy Garcia, whose biography as a player does not abound with loud titles and successes, ended in 1992 due to a severe knee injury. However, even up to the mid-1990s, the player played in amateur French clubs and simultaneously began to comprehend the secrets of the hard coaching craft in the same "Corbeil-Esson", in which he took the first steps in the football field.

Beginning of coaching career

Since 1998, Garcia has worked in various coaching positions at the club "Saint-Etienne", and in January 2001 took the post of head coach of this club from the hands of the famous Welsh coach John Toshack. However, hold on to the helm of this team Garcia could only until the end of this season. After 12 matches, the wards of Rudy Garcia were able to score only 12 points, and the club management sent the beginning coach to retire.

Garcia was able to rehabilitate himself with the missing stars from the sky "Dijon", which he managed to bring to League 2, and also make a good noise in League 1 with "Le Mans", taking with him a record for this modest club, 9th place.

The heyday of a career

Real fame as a coach to Garcia came along with Lille, who was entrusted to lead him in 2008. The team immediately took the 5th place in the championship and made it to the Europa League.

In the next championship, "Lille" took 4th place, and in 2011 won the Cup of France and became the national champion, having played in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.

In June 2013, Rudy Garcia accepted the proposal of the Italian "Roma", hoping with this team to rise to a new stage of the world confrontation.

The unsuccessful season of 2015/2016, in which the legendary Italian club took only 5 place, served as a catalyst for the dismissal of Rudi from "Roma", which happened on January 13, 2016.