Corentin Martins
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Corentin Martins da Silva | ||
| Date of birth | 11 July 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Brest, France | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Mauritania (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Patronage Bergot | |||
| AS Brestoise | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1991 | Brest | 85 | (4) |
| 1991–1996 | Auxerre | 187 | (42) |
| 1996–1997 | Deportivo La Coruña | 36 | (13) |
| 1998–2004 | Strasbourg | 170 | (21) |
| 1999–2000 | → Bordeaux (loan) | 30 | (0) |
| 2004 | Clermont | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 520 | (80) | |
| National team | |||
| 1988 | Brittany indoor | ||
| 1993–1997 | France | 14 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2006–2007 | Quimpérois | ||
| 2008 | Brest (caretaker) | ||
| 2008–2013 | Brest (assistant) | ||
| 2012 | Brest (caretaker) | ||
| 2013 | Brest (caretaker) | ||
| 2014– | Mauritania | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Corentin Martins da Silva (born 11 July 1969) is a former French footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, and the current manager of the Mauritanian national team.
Club career
Martins was born in Brest, Brittany. After starting at hometown's Stade Brestois 29, he moved to AJ Auxerre in 1991, being a crucial part of an emergent side led by legendary Guy Roux: in 1992–93 they reached the UEFA Cup semifinals[1] and, four years later, achieved an historical double.[2]
On 30 May 1996, Martins signed with Deportivo de La Coruña from Spain.[3] After an impressive first season in La Liga he lost his importance in the squad due to injuries,[4] and returned in January 1998 to France, joining RC Strasbourg for one 1/2 years.[5]
After a loan to FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Martins rejoined Strasbourg until 2004, and closed out his career with Clermont Foot. Whilst at Strasbourg Martins played in the 2001 Coupe de France Final in which they beat Amiens SC on penalties.[6] In 2006 he started his manager career, with lowly Quimper Cornouaille FC. In the following year he was named his first club's director of football, but had a brief spell as interim coach in the beginnings of the 2008–09 campaign; he subsequently stayed on the bench, now as an assistant for the Ligue 2 team.[7]
During 2011–12 and 2012–13, Martins acted as caretaker for Brest as a replacement for sacked Alex Dupont[8] and Landry Chauvin, respectively.[9] After managing to avert top flight relegation in the former season, he lost all eight matches he was in charge in the latter, with the subsequent 20th position in the table and relegation.[10]
International career
Martins was born in France, and is of Portuguese descent.[11] Martins earned his first cap for France on 27 March 1993, in a 1–0 win against Austria. He represented the nation at UEFA Euro 1996 and gained a total of 14 caps, but his international career was vastly undermined by the emergence of Zinedine Zidane.[12]
On 8 October 2014, Martins was appointed manager of Mauritania.[13]
References
- ↑ Auxerre-Ajax: souvenirs, souvenirs (Auxerre-Ajax: memories, memories); Europe 1, 2 November 2010 (French)
- ↑ Un jour, une histoire, un club: AJ Auxerre (One day, one history, one club: AJ Auxerre); L'Actu Sport, 19 December 2015 (French)
- ↑ Martins piropea a su nuevo club (Martins flirts with his new club); Mundo Deportivo, 30 May 1996 (Spanish)
- ↑ Qué fue de… Corentin Martins: acento francés en Riazor (What happened to… Corentin Martins: French accent in Riazor); 20 Minutos, 1 December 2004 (Spanish)
- ↑ Corentin Martins pone fin a su carrera deportiva (Corentin Martins ends sporting career); La Voz de Galicia, 28 September 2004 (Spanish)
- ↑ "Strasbourg 0-0 Amiens". lequipe.fr. 26 May 2001. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
- ↑ Ligue 2. Stade brestois: Martins va être licencié (Ligue 2. Stade brestois: Martins will be fired); Ouest-France, 27 September 2013 (French)
- ↑ Martins, le pari risqué (Martins, quite a gamble); L'Équipe, 26 April 2012 (French)
- ↑ Brest: Corentin Martins (encore) à la rescousse (Brest: Corentin Martins (again) to the rescue); Eurosport, 3 April 2013 (French)
- ↑ Foot – L1 – Brest – Leur mission est impossible (Foot – L1 – Brest – Mission impossible for them); Yahoo! Sports, 11 May 2013 (French)
- ↑ http://www.eurosport.fr/football/matches-amicaux/2015/avant-portugal-france-ces-bleus-qui-ont-la-selecao-dans-le-coeur_sto4894055/story.shtml
- ↑ Frédéric Johansen, l’espoir brisé de la génération Zidane (Frédéric Johansen, the broken promise of generation Zidane); Be In Sports, 7 September 2015 (French)
- ↑ Mauritania appoint Corentin Martins as coach; BBC Sport, 8 October 2014
External links
- Corentin Martins – French League Stats at LFP.fr (French)
- AJ Auxerre archives (French)
- AJ Auxerre stats (French)
- Corentin Martins profile at BDFutbol
- French Football Federation profile (French)
- Corentin Martins at National-Football-Teams.com
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| Preceded by Gerald Baticle |
RC Strasbourg Captain 1998–January 1999 |
Succeeded by Teddy Bertin |
| Preceded by Teddy Bertin |
RC Strasbourg Captain November 2000–2004 |
Succeeded by Christian Bassila |