Former “Bleus” coach Raymond Domenech has been appointed FC Nantes coach until the end of the season, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien on Wednesday.
Club sources cited in the French press confirm the arrival of Domenech, 68, who will thus become the fifteenth coach of the formation since the arrival of its president Waldemar Kita in 2007.
The appointment should be made official this Thursday, the day after the match tonight between Nantes and Olympique de Lyon, of which Domenech was coach between 1988 and 1993.
Domenech will start his training sessions in January, according to the French press, and it will be the first time he has worked with a team again since 2010, when he closed his stage with the French team in a controversial and notorious exit.
He was in office from July 2004 to June 2010, when the players mutiny during the World Cup in South Africa.
The team then refused to train after forward Nicolas Anelka was sent off for insulting Domenech, and France finished last of their group and eliminated in the first round, which was a fiasco for a team full of great figures such as Anelka, Franck Ribéry or Thierry Henry.