Bruno Metsu

Before embarking on his career as a footballer, the teenaged Metsu worked as a courier on the docks of Dunkirk. Metsu played as a midfielder. His career as a youth and senior player with eight different clubs was largely based in his native France. He had a three-year spell as a youth player in Belgium with Anderlecht. During his 14 years as a senior player between 1973 and 1987, all with French clubs, he played 366 Division 1 and Division 2 matches and 28 Coupe de France matches, scoring 30 goals in Division 1 and Division 2 matches and 2 goals in Coupe de France matches. While at Lille, Metsu played 63 matches and scored 3 goals in all competitions. Metsu had his heyday at Valenciennes between 1975 and 1979, scoring his highest number of club goals, 14 (in 134 league - all of them Division 1 - and Coupe de France matches), while playing alongside top players such as Didier Six and Roger Milla. After Metsu had finished playing his first season (1984–85) for Beauvais, it won promotion to Division 2.

In France

Metsu spent over a decade as the manager of five different clubs in France before his first foray overseas as a football manager in the year 2000. After retiring as a player with Beauvais in 1987, Metsu took up the youth team manager post with Beauvais in the same year. In 1988, he guided the Beauvais youth team to the runner-up position in the Coupe Gambardella. From 1988 to 1992, he was the manager of Beauvais's senior team, which was in Division 2 throughout his tenure there. In the 1988–1989 season, it reached the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France for the first time in its history, where it lost to Auxerre 2–1 on aggregate. Metsu was appointed the manager of the Division 1 club Lille at the age of 38 on 1 July 1992. He was sacked on 28 February 1993 after it had managed to win just 5 of its first 27 Division 1 matches in the current season, the board summoning him to a meeting and inquiring: "So have you heard the gossip? We are letting you go." It was a crass way to sack a manager, especially one who prided himself on the strong bonds he formed in dressing rooms. Metsu was appointed the manager of Valenciennes at the darkest point in that club's history, immediately after its relegation to Division 2 following the conclusion of the 1992–93 Division 1 season and in the wake of the discovery that some of its players had accepted bribes to throw a Division 1 match against Olympique de Marseille that was held on 20 May 1993. He lasted a year there,…

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UAE Football League: 2002–03, 2003–04 UAE Super Cup: 2003 AFC Champions League: 2002–03 Al-Gharafa

Qatar Stars League: 2004–05 Sheikh Jassem Cup: 2005–06 Qatar Crown Prince Cup: 2011 Emir of Qatar Cup runner-up: 2006, 2011 Senegal

African Cup of Nations runner-up: 2002 United Arab Emirates

Arabian Gulf Cup: 2007