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Association football player and manager (born 1971)
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Éric Descombes
Personal information
Date of birth 25/06/1971
Place of birth Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender (association football)
Team information
Current team SC Bastia (Technical/Academy director)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1986–1987 Canon Yaoundé
1988 Diamant Yaoundé
1988–1989 Lyon B
1989–1994 Toulouse B
1995 Chico Rooks 26 (5)
1996 Cascade Surge 25 (3)
1997 Sacramento Scorpions 30 (7)
1997–1998 Southend United 0 (0)
1999 New Orleans Storm 27 (1)
2000–2001 Cincinnati Riverhawks 49 (0)
2002–2003 Indiana Blast 12 (0)
Total 169 (16)
International career
2003 Mauritania 2 (0)
Managerial career
2000–2001 Indiana Blast
2007 Indianapolis Braves
2013 Africa Sports d'Abidjan
2013 Central African Republic
2017–2022 FC Mulhouse (Director of Football, Manager)
2023 SC Bastia (Technical Director/Academy Director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eric Descombes (born 25 June 1971) is an association football manager and former player. Born in Ivory Coast, he was naturalized by Mauritania and participated with the Mauritanian national team in the World Cup qualifiers for Germany 2006. He spent his career between Europe and the United States, playing with clubs such as Chico Rooks, Cascade Surge, Sacramento Scorpions, Southend United, New Orleans Storm, Cincinnati Riverhawks and Indiana Blast. He capped twice for the Mauritanian national team and played in 169 games at the professional level, scoring 16 times.

Descombes started his professional coaching career in the A-League with the Cincinnati Riverhawks as a player-assistant coach and with the Indiana Blast as a head coach. He was the head coach and GM with Africa Sports d'Abidjan in Ivory Coast (2012/2013 season). He was named as the new national team coach and technical director of the Central African Republic, shortly after. The team participated in the CEMAC Cup in December 2013, while the civil war just had started. He led the team to a final appearance, after defeating Chad (1–0), Congo (1-0), and Cameroon (1-0), but falling to host country Gabon (0–2) in the final.

In January 2017, Descombes was named as the Director of Football with FC Mulhouse in France, overseeing the club's entire sport side, from the youth academy to the first team. In July 2018 he was named as the club's new manager.In his first season at the helm, he won the league championship and promotion to the next division, and a coach of the year accolade.

Eric Descombes was appointed in May 2023 by SC Bastia of France's Ligue 2 as the new technical/academy director in charge of revamping the youth academy and restructuring its organization.

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References

  1. "Mulhouse : Le nouveau coach dévoilé" (in French). foot-national.com. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 11 July 2018.


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