Alain Giresse (69) is the new coach of the Kosovo national team. He was officially named this Wednesday noon. Kosovo, a small European state of less than 2 million inhabitants wedged between Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Albania and Macedonia, is a minor nation in world football. She is ranked only 111th in the FIFA rankings. It is also a young country on the football scene. The first match of his selection dates back to only 2014. A few Kosovar international players are currently playing in France, such as Arbër Zeneli (Reims) and Elbasan Rashani (Clermont).
With this position, Alain Giresse continues his world tour. He began his coaching career at Toulouse in 1995 and then at PSG (1998) but it was on the African continent that he spent most of his career on the bench. Giresse successively led the selections of Gabon, Mali, Tunisia and Senegal with a prank in Georgia. He had been unemployed since leaving Tunisia at the end of the CAN in 2019.
In his career, Alain Giresse was also one of the greatest French players. Selected 47 times in the France team, the former Bordelais formed the famous magic square of the early 1980s with Tigana, Platini, Genghini then Fernandez. European champion in 1984, he was elected best French player in 1982, 83 and 87. He played in two World Cups in 1982 and 1986 scoring one of the three French goals in the unforgettable semi-final once morest Germany in 1982 in Seville. In Ligue 1 – it was still called D 1 at that time – Alain Giresse played 675 games between 1970 and 1988 with Bordeaux then Marseille.