Rudi Garcia Biography

Rudi Garcia is a French former football player and current manager of Italian Roma club in the Serie A; he was born in February 20, 1964.

Early career of Rudi Garcia:

Rudi Garcia grew up and football was part of his life where his father was a professional player in Sedan and Dunkerque. Then his father Jose became the coach of local team Corbeil-Essonnes, and he drafted Rudi into squad. After 18 years old Rudi signed with Lille to spend two years as an intern and then four years as part of professional squad. So Rudi Garcia made 170 appearances with the team to leave it in 1988.

Rudi Garcia played as an attacking midfielder, so he created goals more than scored. So he retired after a serious injury to his back and knee which forced him to stop playing at the age of 28 in 1992.

Managerial career of Rudi Garcia:

Early years:

Rudi Garcia came back to manage the Division d’honneur side where he saved them from relegation in 1995. He signed with Dijon in 2002 and helped the team to climb to Division 2 in 2003-2004. Then he moved to Le Mans, who led them to finish the league in the 9^th place and to complete the Coupe de la Ligue semi-final.

Lille:

Rudi Garcia resigned his contract with Le Mans to sign with Lille in June 18, 2008. So he started his first season in his new team by developing a stylish and attacking approach, he could also to develop the skills of players such as Ludovic Obraniak and Michel Bastos, where the latter became the top soccer in the league with 14 goals. So he led the team to finish the league in the best finish where they qualified for the Europe League, but unexpectedly he was sacked by the board of the LOSC due to the difference of opinion with a member of the board Xavier Thuilot. Who was sacked after few month of this incident? So in June 18, 2009 the club president Michel Seydoux and his shareholder offered him to return back to the team. So in the 2009-2010 seasons he worked on promoting the Lille skills and results so they finished in the 5^th place in the league with 72 goals. So the French media started to speak well about him. In the next season in 2010-2011 Garcia led Lille to achieve their trophy against PSG in the Coupe de France and Garcia was awarded the prize for the best Ligue 1 coach of the 2010-2011 season.

Roma:
Roma president club James Pallotta announced that the team signed with Rudi Garcia as manager of the team in June 12, 2013, where he led the team to win the derby match against Lazio 2-0, and now he achieved seven wins with the team from seven games in the league of Serie A, in addition his big victory over Inter Milan 3-0.