▲ Coach Hervé Renard has been leading the French women’s national team since last year. In last year’s Women’s World Cup, they faced Australia in the quarter-finals and were eliminated on penalties. ▲ Coach Hervé Renard is currently in charge of the French women’s national football team. He announced a new challenge after the Paris 2024 Olympics.
[스포티비뉴스=김건일 기자] It has been revealed that the coach of the French women’s national football team, Hervé Renard, who is known as a candidate for the Korean coach, has demanded a huge salary from the Cameroon Football Association.
Africfoot, which covers African football news, announced on the 8th (Korea time) that “Cameroon’s Ministry of Sports has rejected coach Renard,” adding, “The reason is the demand for an absurd salary.”
According to this, Coach Renard was the top priority among the new coach candidates presented by Cameroon Football Federation President Samuel Eto’o to the Cameroon Sports Ministry.
However, the amount requested by coach Renard varies from 1.5 million to 2.4 million euros. The maximum is six times the 400,000 euros currently received by the French national team. Cameroon Sports Minister Narcisse Muel Combi, who discussed with Coach Renard, said, “It was a very large amount of money. No coach is given so much money in history.”
▲ Coach Hervé Renard has been leading the French women’s national team since last year. In last year’s Women’s World Cup, they faced Australia in the quarter-finals and were eliminated on penalties. ▲ Coach Hervé Renard is currently in charge of the French women’s national football team. He announced a new challenge after the Paris 2024 Olympics.
In addition, Latanière’s Twitter, which includes Cameroon national team news, highlighted this news and said, “Coach Renard received an annual salary of 1.1 million euros while working in Saudi Arabia. Cameroon asked for 2.4 million euros, which was paid the salary two weeks before starting work, “I was hoping it would happen,” he explained.
French daily Le Figaro also said, “Coach Renard’s annual salary is estimated at 400,000 euros. If he had taken charge of Cameroon, he would have earned six times as much as he is earning now.”
According to the Cameroonian media outlet Actu Cameroon, Aniset Mani, an activist of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Congress (CPDM), opposed the appointment of coach Renard for a large amount of money, saying, “Public funds should not be misused.”
▲ Coach Herve Renard led Saudi Arabia to the Qatar 2022 World Cup and caused a stir by beating Argentina 2-1 in the first Group C match of the group stage. ▲ Coach Hervé Renard is currently in charge of the French women’s national football team. He announced a new challenge after the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Coach Renard, whose contract with the French Football Association expires after the Paris 2024 Olympics, said at a press conference last month, “I have communicated to the French Football Association my intention to leave after the Olympics,” and “I have the 2026 World Cup in the back of my mind.” Men’s National Team “I hope this will be my third World Cup as a coach. This is my personal motivation,” he said, appearing on the ‘manager market.’
Cameroon, along with Korea, was a team mentioned as Coach Renard’s next destination. French media L’Equipe reported on the 30th of last month, “Five teams, including Korea, Poland, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Morocco, are interested in coach Renard.” Cameroon parted ways with coach Rigobert Song after the Africa Cup of Nations held in February and is looking for a new coach. Cameroon, who were eliminated in the round of 16 by Nigeria in this tournament, gave up on renewing their contract with coach Song, saying, “We need a change.”
▲ French media outlet L’Equipe reported that five countries, including Korea, are interested in appointing coach Herve Renard.
French media L’Equipe reported on the 30th of last month, “Five teams, including Korea, Poland, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Morocco, are interested in coach Renard.”
If the amount demanded by coach Renard from the Cameroon Football Association is true, it is more than the amount paid by the Korea Football Association to coach Jurgen Klinsmann. According to foreign media, Director Klinsmann’s annual salary is known to be $2.2 million. Coach Bento, who led Korea to the round of 16 of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, is estimated to have received $1.9 million from Korea.
However, it is unclear whether the Korea Football Association will be able to meet Coach Renard’s request due to his financial situation. The Korean Football Association sacked coach Klinsmann after a year and he had to pay a huge penalty for the remainder of the contract. The analysis is that because the budget is fixed, the amount that can be paid to the next director will be limited. There is also a prediction that it will be difficult for him to accept the job of Korean manager unless he ‘pays’ himself.
▲ French coach Herve Renard, who led Saudi Arabia in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Currently, she leads the French women’s soccer team.
French coach Renard made his name known on the African continent by winning the Africa Cup of Nations twice as coach of Zambia in 2012 and Cord’Ivoire in 2015. This is why he remains linked with Cameroon, Morocco, and Ivory Coast .
After finishing the 2019 Nations Cup, coach Renard announced a new challenge on social media, saying, “I don’t think I will work in Africa,” and took the helm in Saudi Arabia.
Coach Renard, who led Saudi Arabia to the finals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, caused a stir at the finals. In the first Group C match of the group stage, they defeated the Argentina national team led by Lionel Messi 2-1. This is the first time that Argentina has lost to an Asian team in its history in the World Cup, and its unbeaten run of 36 international matches was ended by Saudi Arabia.
Coach Renard has a deep connection with the Korean national team. Even before the appointment of managers Paulo Bento and Jurgen Klinsmann, they were mentioned as candidates for manager. In particular, it is known that before the appointment of coach Bento, he was the best candidate for the coach of the Korean national team, but coach Renard rejected him.
▲ Jeong Hae-seong, Chairman of the National Football Team’s Strength Improvement Committee, briefs on the results of the 5th Strength Improvement Committee held by the Korea Football Association in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 2nd. ⓒ Yonhap News
The Power Strengthening Committee, which held the 5th Power Strengthening Committee briefing session at the Football Center in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 2nd, narrowed down the applicants to four domestic coaches and seven foreign coaches. It is known that four domestic leaders are currently part of the team.
Jeong Hae-seong, chairman of the Power Strengthening Committee, said, “The 5th meeting of the Power Strengthening Committee was held this morning, and a total of 32 candidates were discussed for 3 hours. Ultimately, it was decided to put 11 coaches on the candidate list,” adding, “Priority is given to 7 foreigners. “We intend to conduct interviews with the leaders. We will conduct them not face to face with foreign coaches, and we are also collecting and analyzing the game videos of the relevant leaders,” he said.
▲ Jeong Hae-seong, Chairman of the National Football Team’s Strength Improvement Committee, briefs on the results of the 5th Strength Improvement Committee held by the Korea Football Association in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 2nd. ⓒ Yonhap News
Chairman Jeong said, “The domestic leader will be interviewed immediately after the interview with the foreign director. Through this process, 11 candidates will be interviewed in detail and a director will be appointed by the beginning to the middle of May if possible.”
As for the next director, Chairman Jeong revealed a total of eight criteria for selection, starting with tactical abilities, training, justification, experience, communication, leadership, human resource system, and the ability to produce results.
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