Éric Guérit

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Éric Guérit
Personal information
Date of birth (1964-07-21) 21 July 1964 (age 59)
Place of birth Niort, France
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1981–1982
Angoulême
1 (0)
1982–1984 Chamois Niortais ? (?)
1984–1986
Angoulême
60 (5)
1986–1989 Nice 96 (6)
1989–1990 Monaco 13 (0)
1990–1992 Cannes 65 (5)
1992–1995 Bordeaux 66 (0)
Managerial career
1995 Bordeaux
1997–1998
Angoulême
1999–2002 Lille B
2002–2003 Angers
2004–2005
Angoulême
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Éric Guérit (born 21 July 1964) is a French former professional

defensive midfielder by trade, he made more than 300 senior appearances for seven different clubs during a 14-year playing career spent mostly in the top division of French football. He later went into management, firstly as manager of Bordeaux
in 1995, and has since held various positions at a number of clubs in France.

Playing career

Born in

Division 4 side Chamois Niortais. He spent two seasons with his home-town club, helping the team to a finish fourth in 1983 before securing promotion to the third tier the following year after a third-placed finish.[1]

In the summer of 1984, Guérit returned to his first club Angoulême.

Bourges a year later.[3] Guérit was ever-present for the senior team during this period, scoring five goals in 60 league matches.[1] His performances led to interest from clubs at higher levels and in 1986 he was signed by Division 1 side OGC Nice. Over the next three years, he became a regular in the Nice midfield, making 96 league appearances for the club and scoring on six occasions.[1]

Guérit began the 1989–90 season with Nice, playing in the opening three matches, but transferred to nearby rivals

Parc Lescure, making a total of 66 league appearances for Bordeaux before announcing his retirement from football in 1995.[2]

Managerial career

In April 1995, following his retirement from playing, Guérit was hired as Bordeaux manager for the remainder of the season following the departure of Portuguese coach Toni. He guided the team to a seventh-place finish, winning five and drawing one of his eight matches in charge. However, he was not given the job on a permanent basis as the club hired Serbian Slavoljub Muslin as manager for the following season.[4] Guérit left Bordeaux and returned for a third spell at his former side Angoulême, as assistant manager to Guy Latapie. When Latapie left the club in March 1997, Guérit was installed as head coach, a position he held until December of the following year.[2]

After a short spell as assistant manager to

Besançon and thereby returning the club to the second tier after two years in the National. His stay at Angers did not last much longer, however, as he was dismissed and replaced by Jacky Bonnevay in August 2003 after winning only one of the opening five matches of the 2003–04 season.[1]

A second stint as Angoulême manager followed, but he left the post in the summer of 2005 after a disappointing season which saw the club finish 17th in the CFA Group D and consequently drop into the Division d'Honneur, the sixth tier of French football, for the first time since 1964.[5] In 2007, he joined Ligue 1 side Stade Rennais as a scout, a position he still holds as of May 2013.

Personal life

Guérit is one of two brothers to have played professional football; his younger brother Fabrice played 24 matches as a defender for Chamois Niortais between 1991 and 1993.[6]

Honours

Lille B

  • Championnat de France amateur Group A winners: 2001–02[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Eric Guérit". SCO1919.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Football: Eric Guérit". FootballDatabase.eu. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Division 3 Gr. Centre-Ouest 1986". FootballenFrance.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  4. ^ "La fiche de Eric GUERIT". La Légende des Girondins. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Angouleme Charente Football Club". FootballenFrance.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Fiche de Fabrice Guérit". ChamoisFC79.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2013.