The Ivorian Football Federation has appointed Emerse Fae as the Elephants coach on a permanent deal after leading them to the AFCON 2023 title.
The country’s football federation’s president Idriss Diallo confirmed the appointment on Monday, but did not disclose the length of Fae’s contract.
“Emerse was until now interim coach and has just been confirmed as full coach,” Diallo said.
Fae took over on an interim basis after Jean-Louis Gasset departed during the group stage of the finals.
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Before Fae took over, the Elephants had lost two games including a record 4-0 home defeat by Equatorial Guinea.
But the Ivorians progressed as the last of the four best third-placed teams and Fae oversaw an incredible turnaround for the tournament hosts in the knockout stages.
The Elephants beat holders Senegal on penalties and then came from behind with 10 men to beat Mali 2-1 in the quarter-finals after extra-time.
They pipped DR Congo 1-0 in the semi-finals before coming from a goal down to beat Nigeria 2-1 in the final.
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Congratulations to Fae. He definitely deserves it. Ivory Coast should and fails with their own.
Not like NFF, that loves half-baked foreign coach that could not deliver what our local coaches have won.
We have good players at our disposal, but poor management will continue to hurt our team. Why a foreign coach when we have our own? Just because we don’t love ourselves.
If Oga Paseiro is that good, by now, he should have considered Algeria job jęję. I’m sure in a few months in Algeria, they will send him packing.
Algeria FA is not like NFF that preferred money to Nigeria image.
I hope NFF will wake up and give the job to our local coach. At least, we have Amunike and Marnu Gerba. These two coaches can repeat what they have done in the past in the current Super Eagles.
Nobody should tell me Super Eagles is different from under 17 or under 20. If Oga Paseiro could fumble at the Afcon final just like that and people are still praising him, I believe our own can do much better than that kę.
Say no to foriegn coach for now. We want our own to take over period. Congratulations to Ivory Coast for doing the right thing at the right time. This is called no time to waste time because you people know what you want and what you are doing.
Not like here in Nigeria, they will waste time to pocket our money. It is a shame, NFF wake up time is running out. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Hahahaha….even the Algerian FA that you are praising is going for a foreign coach after “their own” failed.
Competence and merit does not know creed or skin colour.
How does the choice of Algeria going for a white coach makes them smarter or belittling black coaches? When was the last time a white Coach won the Afcon? Sometimes learn from people even if you need deliverance in this regard because you always have something to conjure and create confusion when we all know that Omo9ja is praising the black initiative and excellence.
Hahahaha….I know you are daft, so no need to educate you nor teach you how to comprehend simple English.
If only you understood English properly, the last sentence in my comment would have made meaning to you and helped you not to make a fool of yourself as you have just done.
Or is it not contradictory to you that your fellow drunkard is here insisting we go with “our own” (who by the way have succeeded in destroying our football each time they have been given the SE job in the last decade) while at the same time praising the Algeria FA who is overlooking the fact that “their own” won them the last afcon to now go for Competence rather than stay stuck on the sentiments of “our own” after getting booted out of back to back afcons in group stages and not qualifying for the World cup.
Once again, “Competence and merit does not know creed or skin colour”
If you don’t know what that means, go and ask whatever mushroom schools you attended for a refund.
Exactly my thoughts you’ll never grow up.
Will I argue with someone that doesn’t change or learn for good? No. I ask again will I go back and forth with someone that has nothing to loose in a battle? Of course not. Just go and search for your deliverance and peace!!!
No, argue na, argue with stupidity as you have always done. You that has grown up so well yet refused to outgrow your empty arrogance and senselessness. Go ahead and argue and let me scrub you clean as I always do.
Comprehending simple English has always been a challenge for you, so pls, Argue ehn.
Once again, “Competence and merit does not know creed or skin colour”
Since you apparently don’t know what that means, before jumping in to run your mouth, go and ask for a refund of all the tuition you paid while “growing up”.
Silence they say is Golden, you should have known by now he doesn’t like black people achieving anything.
Peseiro asslickers claims that you have to prove yourself in Europe before you are sure to win as a local coach. Now naysayers these topic has been hot for days now and my only question is has FAE proved anything in Europe or Africa before CIV gave him a chance to turn the tide? A certain noise maker will not allow us to hear word after final of the Afcon just because our coach made us proud by parking the bus to final until we got disgrace by Adingra and Haller. Omw Ubah I don’t know when you started watching football but I know you’re below 37. Because anyone who was matured at USA 94 will not be starving for Peseiro. God forbid will I allow myself to accept Nigeria waiting for opportunity or mistake from less technical team before we can score a goal, and that is after they might have attacked and drain the life of our boys. No football lover will follow a coach or team that suffers like this. Although NFF and Government might keep him as usual to share salary but one day everything will be alright.
@chima E Samuel….
Hahahahaha….. LoL.
Fae Emerse actually went to Europe.
He retired in 2012 ….
He started coaching in the youth team of OGC NICE in France in 2012 till 2018.
From 2018 to 2021 he became their U19 (NIZZA) manager.
From 2021 to 2022 he became CLERMONT B Manager still in France.
He later return home to handle IVORY COAST U23 in 2022.
In 2022 till 2024 he started working as assistant coach of IVORY COAST.
2024 till date he became Coach of IVORY COAST.
Have you seen how Fae Emerse work his way right from Europe before IVORY COAST started giving him managerial appointment?
It’s only in Nigeria that things are done TURN BY TURN.
It’s my turn to rule…. It’s my turn to coach whether competent or not, all we know is…. It is my turn.
Fae retired and started working for the future in Europe…. Our ex internationals will retire and sit at home waiting for their turn to coach super eagles.
No wonder they always fail woefully.
The few that went and mastered the art of coaching ended up creating history for themselves….Late keshi and Amodu are case study…The rest want it to be their turn.
It’s only in Nigeria things are done upside down.
I rest my case.
***SHALOM***
So this Juvenile CV judging from his stints with age group clubsides was enough for their FA to saddled him with the almighty task of facing Senegal and Rest. Then why were you taunting Amunike who even has better achievements in age group after winning both CAF and FIFA u17 trophy and discovered Osimhen Chukwueze Etc as incapable of making it as Nigerian Coach??? I am recommending Ptiso for the job but Amunike might also be a great option. Las las NFF will make their choice and we go follow follow as usual.
Can you beat your hands on your chest that those boys amunike took to U17 world cup were actually 15 and 16 years.???
2ndly, how many months does a tournament last as compare to a league that you should compare the lads Fae managed to those over age boys we took U17???
Did Fae only coach for 6 to 9 or 10 months and run away???
Do you know what it means to manage a “B” in France or any other top 5 league in Europe??
Didn’t amunike play for Barcelona? Why can’t he go and handle their B team or their under age teams as Fae did during permit me to use the word “I.T days?
Is there no team in NPFL that amunike can kick start his career before dreaming of super eagles Job???
FAE didn’t just coach for 2 or 4 or let’s say 5 to 7 years…. He continuously and consistently manage teams for 12 good years before the national team job come calling…..
How many of our ex cricketers have been into coaching for the past 10 years consistently????
Let’s watch the way others are doing it successfully and follow….
CISSE, Fae and BALMADI all pass through the same route…. Only in Nigeria we want it to be done TURN BY TURN.
PLEASE LET’S END THIS ARGUMENT, THANKS.
***SHALOM***
Look at this lunatic ass kisser. An MRI was conducted on all teams that qualified for the 2013 U17 WC. Keep sucking Dr dre’s cheezy dick
@chidi
Does MRI scan detect the real age of a person????.
I see why you people are easily deceived by politicians…. So you so much believe in a machine that today it’ll read ok and tomorrow it’ll say a different thing….
@UBFE Are you kidding me? So Osimhen and Chukwueze are overage? Wonders will never end on this forum.
@Chima….
We’re all Africans….. We know what is there.
Let’s tell ourselves the truth always……
Don’t worry, only time will tell….
Mikel and Messi played the same U20, today Messi is still relevant but our Mikel retired since 2020. He wasn’t even injured…. No life threatening disease… Very sound but fizzle out of the stage.
How about Toni kroos and crisantus???
Where’s Taye taiwo???
Time Will tell if those men Amunike took to U17 in 2015 were actually 15 or 16 years.
Fingers crossed
Fae now has his work cut out for him, now that the “spirit of resurgence”, the crowd, the referees, the political bigwigs, the “sheer determination to prove a point” and all those other factors that worked for the CIV team at AFCON will no longer be there.
They weren’t really tactically superior against every team they played throughout the knockouts, not even against Nigeria….they were a very predictable unidirectional team – attacking only from the wings and whipping in crosses to the centre. They were only more physically refreshed with Fae ringing in wholesome changes to the knockout stage lineups, and psychologically doped, now having the entire nation including their president behind them.
Are we going to be seeing a Roberto Di Matteo-esque scenario play out, or will it be a Beckenbau-zestd…? only time will tell.
A wise African saying says starting from the top means there no where else to go but bottom.
But one thing is sure though……Fae has is work cut out in the lead up to the next AFCON in 16 months time.
Home advantage helped fae to a great extent,no disrespect to him,though he understands the Ivorian football and the players,he made the right calls fair play to him.
Now he has to prove himself without the millions of supports which he had at the just concluded Afcon playing as hosts.
Even so,if he could qualify Ivory Coast for the next world Cup as well the next Afcon and reach the later stages,it will be concluded his achievement in the past Afcon wasn’t a fluke.
I hope the Ivorian FA doesn’t regret this hasty decision,though deserving for winning the ultimate price,but just like my brother @drey said i quote “Starting from the top means,there’s no where else to go but bottom”
I’ve not read any comments but let me just paste this one here for those that doesn’t understand how things work
He retired in 2012 ….
He started coaching in the youth team of OGC NICE in France in 2012 till 2018.
From 2018 to 2021 he became their U19 (NIZZA) manager.
From 2021 to 2022 he became CLERMONT B Manager still in France.
He later return home to handle IVORY COAST U23 in 2022.
In 2022 till 2024 he started working as assistant coach of IVORY COAST.
2024 till date he became Coach of IVORY COAST.
Have you seen how Fae Emerse work his way right from Europe before IVORY COAST started giving him managerial appointment?
It’s only in Nigeria that things are done TURN BY TURN.
It’s my turn to rule…. It’s my turn to coach whether competent or not, all we know is…. It is my turn.
Fae retired and started working for the future in Europe…. Our ex internationals will retire and sit at home waiting for their turn to coach super eagles.
No wonder they always fail woefully.
It’s only in Nigeria things are done upside down.
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU EMERSE FAE FOR SHOWING OUR EX CRICKETERS HOW THINGS ARE DONE.
***SHALOM***
They said what trophy has he won with those teams before CIV must give him such position during a major tournament? Lol nobody knows FAE as a coach of any major team or achieving anything but he used the CIV team to start a brilliant career. Even the Amunike you’re taunting has better achievement that FAE at grassroot level before he was given a chance by CIV. Huh give any great African coach the SE and he will win a World Cup even with evil NFF. Nigeria has always gotten it wrong with their coaches. I still put my money on Ptiso Mosiame come rain come sun. I know he will deliver with Nigeria and not any other African country but Nigeria because we are the nation that has talents with poor coaches unable to harness and do more.
But he went and learn the art of coaching in Europe for close to 10 years….. Have you seen anywhere in his CV that he failed with this team?
Have you seen anywhere in his CV that he was demoted to a lower division???
He kept making upward progress till he finally become the coach of his country.
Our own ex like Joseph yobo doesn’t even have anything show yet he was appointed assistant coach because it was his turn….. They even suggested him to lead us to world cup in Qatar…. LoL…. But the God of innocent poor gernot Rohr fought tirelessly and exposed them when they faced a tactical and technical coach of Tunisia and Ghana.
How many of our ex are out there coaching either in NPFL, or other African league.
How many of our EX are coaching the youth teams they played during their playing days?
They’re waiting for their turn…. LoL hahahaha….
Once Fae leaves the stage, KOLO TOURE will take the mattle….. TOURE is there preparing his way while our EX are relaxing and waiting for their turn to coach super eagles…..
See how silly you look after you were asked what achievement has FAE got to be given the helms of affairs of ivory coast, you result to beating about the bush. You talk as though u sleep and wake up with all our ex-players to know non of them is attending any training course. Amuneke was coaching youth teams in Europe and got an assistant job in Saudi Arabia. And won the under-17 world cup, and you quickly turned it to yobo. May i ask must every ex-player become a coach?
Hahahaha….Why are you like this now…?
You pasted this fact based profile of Fae on another thread and that Coward that call himself Chima ran away from the thread after you have silenced him, yet you still came to waylay him here again….LMAOOo. Haba, let the Eberibe breathe biko.
For all his profile has revealed, Even though Fae stumbled on the CIV coaching job, he stumbled on it somewhat qualified, with about 12 years coaching experience having risen through the ranks from U18 to U19 to U23 to being senior national team Assistant Coach and now the Substantive coach. That really speaks a lot.
Biko how many of our lazy entitled exes can even boast of 12 years unbroken coaching experience….LMAOoo. Not the ones that will coach for 6 months, get sacked and go sit at home for 2 years, get another job and get demoted within 3 months and go hibernating in wait for the SE coach to be sacked b4 jumping out on the pages of the internet to lay claim to SE coaching job like its some family chieftaincy title…LMAOoo
All of these are in addition to the fact that Fae is also a “foreign born” (the same foreign born some of these charlatans do not want to see in our national team) who had all his football education, both as player and coach, in France, has all his coaching experience in France and hence can be said to be as foreign as any French man or foreigner can be. Its like Danny Shittu or Dickson Etuhu becoming coach of Nigeria in future and somebody trying to claim him to be “local”….LMAOoo.
Just like Cisse and Belmadi before him, Fae is as french as any Frenchman, ably assisted on the technical crew by a large swart of frenchmen too. Let no one deceive themselves.
Thanks a lot @Dr Drey…. without mincing words, You’re one of the most respected person in this forum based on your sense of reasoning and always coming out to call a spade a spade irrespective of those working tirelessly to making sure the super eagles is left in shamble.
Sometimes I wonder the kind of spirit in some people on this forum.
After all the buahaha that deprived us of the world cup ticket and the AFCON title, I never expected any reasonable Nigerian to demand for an incompetent local coach for the super eagles again. I was thinking that evil spirit that entered some people claiming to be super eagles fan and Nigerian had disappeared and never to return.
But little did I know that Satan doesn’t surrender so easily.
As cluelessness and inept as gernot Rohr was, he qualifed us to tournament with EASE…. I REPEAT, WITH EASE.
But our local coaches with all their sound, technical and tactical knowledge of football they’ve gotten as players and as guardiola couldn’t score against a Tunisian team C…..
A team that even our Eyimba can easily walked over was technical and tactical stronger than a team lead by a technical adviser including nine extra (Jara or mafo) consortium.
As if that wasn’t enough, the worst GHANA team I have witnessed in over a decade came and schooled our technical adviser with his troops of 9 consortium….. Picked the sole world cup ticket and jakpa before our very eyes.
PESEIRO is useless coach, PESEIRO is outdated coach, PESEIRO is inept, PESEIRO has no football tactics apart from defending.
It’s our array of stars that got us to the final…..
The question I keep asking is….. Is this not the same players that couldn’t go beyond round of 16 with ourr EXCELLENT football local coach?
Is it not the same players that our local coaches “are better than PESEIRO and ROHR combined” couldn’t use to defeat an unserious and the worst GHANA team ever in over ten years???
Did PESEIRO went and manufacture EKONG, ADEMOLA, BASSEY, SIMON, ONYEKA, AINA, ZAIDU, OSIMHEN, IWOBI, AJAYI, CHUKWUEZE et al to come and play for super eagles?
Were these players not in the team that lost woefully during the world cup qualifiers in Qatar?
But a coach without tactics performed wonders with them.
Took us to AFCON final that no one ever thought or dreamed of.
Inspite of this some people still want us to go and suffer under our local coaches that doesn’t have what it takes to get to the top.
We’re not against a local coach handling the super eagles, the question is…. How good are they???
Won’t they leave us with heart breaks????
Won’t they leave us at the middle of the river and tuama???
Based on proof of work, where have they coached successfully??
How competent and consistent are they???
Late Keshi and Amodu proved Their competency else where before the national job was given to them.
The present ex we’ve now will coach for 6 to 8 months, get fired, instead of them to dust their buttocks and keep moving, they’ll go and seat in their parlor waiting for NFF to call them to come and handle the national team.
The FAE, CISSE, BALMADI we’re singing their praise today, have you checked their coaching career???
Did they just seat at the comfort of their home and received a call to come and lead the national team?
Let’s watch the way others are doing it successfully and follow….
Let us not mix it with emotion….
Let it not beb a turn by turn affair….
NIGERIA is in a breaking point because of this same turn by turn of a thing in governance…..
I won’t deliberate on this thread again.
He that has an ear should hear from the real super eagles fan.
Not everyone in this forum are actually Nigerian hence their desire to always clamour for things that will eventually ruin our super eagles.
Take note.
I COME IN PEACE.
***SHALOM***
Are you kidding me I ran away from what? You think my life is based on CS right? Or I don’t have anything else doing than the back and forth with the same people for over 12 years? Common there’s more to life maybe you people derive pleasure in arguments but I derive peace and joy in keeping my space because if I answer with a jibe it will be too much of derogatory that I’m doing away with for my own purity!!!
While praising Fae for his great work at the last AFCON, I must admit, his success with the team is highly circumstantial. A lot of things worked for CIV at this AFCON, chief among which was the home advantage and some politics from Caf. Things might be quite different now that the qualifiers resume soon. If only Peseiro was smart enough to mix things up a bit in the final. He made the team so predictable and simply played into the hands of the Ivorians. This is one AFCON we.could have easily won, without any doubt. If he looks back in time, he would definitely have his regret for not doing things differently when it matterd most.
Fast forward, I expect us to be at the WC. But going there simply means beating the likes of SA who gained so.much confidence at THE AFCON allowing them to dominate us again in that semi final. I have my reservations about Peseirp continuing as the coach, but for now I can’t see a better option. And I believe he has Learnt one or two things at the AFCON that will serve him well in our subsequent matches. So, he should continue.
Papa fem you’re absolutely right even in the match against Nigeria the first half officiating contributed to the boys woeful performance because the ref didn’t allow them to play anything by using his whistle to frustrate us. Now let’s not take away the fact that CIV was also brilliant in utilising these loopholes with their star players pilling pressure and causing pain to any defensive team. This is why I give credits to CIV and also honourable mentions to other past African coaches that made us proud by exposing tactical deficiencies of average foreign coaches.
What amazes me is how a country that is owing coaches and players continues to believe that Afcon is their personal property.
If the Afcon games were decided based on administrative competence, would we have made it out of our group? Hahaha, we for no even qualify for the tournament proper.
Zero in administration, but we want to be the continental champion.
The 3 Afcons we currently have could easily have been as much as 6 or 7. We might even have up to 10 by now, with better administration.
The one that makes me laugh is how we SPECTACULARLY shot ourselves in the foot in the 1990s. We had the strongest team in Africa, bar none. No other African team came close to us. The 1996 and 1998 Afcons were there for the taking. FOR THE TAKING!
Yet, what happened? Someone decided to withdraw Nigeria from the competition in protest against Apartheid. As a result of that boycott, we got banned from the 1998 edition as well.
Now, I have a couple of questions:
1) The other countries that participated in the 1996 Afcon, are they pro apartheid?
2) The black SA players that played the Afcon nko? Doctor Khumalo, Philemon Masinga, John Shoes Mosheu, Lucas Radebe, and others, if their people allowed them to play the Afcon, why did Nigeria boycott the Afcon?
Hehehe, na Nigeria come carry the whole thing for head, like the funeral guest that is crying louder that the bereaved. That was how we missed the golden opportunity to win 2 Afcons.
To further buttress this point, in that same 1996, our boys won the Olympic gold, beating heavyweights like Brazil and Argentina along the way. Some of the best players in the world at that time were in the Brazil and Argentina squads, yet we beat them. Can you imagine what our boys would have done at the 1996 and 1998 Afcons? Thanks to bizarre decision making, we will never know.
Terrible decision making also cost us dearly recently. We sacked a coach that met all his targets before the previous Afcon, then installed OUR OWN.
Elimination at the hands of a covid ravaged Tunisia in the Afcon second round, was rapidly followed by elimination from the world cup at the hands of Ghana. These were the fruits that came forth from that awful decision. Our football went comatose for a long while after that.
How can coaches or players thrive when the custodians of the game are chaotic and erratic in their decision making?
Against all odds, Peseiro and his team got to the Afcon final. With better administrative support, this cup was there FOR THE TAKING.
So for me, the main issue is our administrators. Once we get the administration aspect right, everything else will fall into place.
I think what happened was Mandela criticised abacha and he responded by withdrawing the SE from the tourney citing unsafety concerns as reason as SA was hosting the competition, CAF duly responded with a lengthy ban.
Those who were quarreling should have continued their quarrel without dragging our football into it.
If SA was unsafe, why did the tournament carry on as planned?
Anyway, the politics behind the decision is irrelevant. This is a football site. So it is the football impact that I’m pointing at. We lost the opportunity to compete for 2 Afcons we could have won quite comfortably.
That’s one flip side of military regime. They can be very unreasonable.
This is why when people make fun of Kanu for never scoring a single goal at the Afcon tournament in his career, my question is: HOW DO YOU KNOW HE WOULD NOT HAVE SCORED IF WE HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO PLAY IN 1996? He was in the form of his life that year. And the 1998 edition? He probably would have bagged a truckload of goals in those 2 editions. But thanks to bizarre decision making, HE NEVER GOT THAT OPPORTUNITY!
Kanu and all the other talented players of that generation were robbed of 2 Afcon winners medals.
This is the chaotic environment of incompetence and ineptitude that continues to hold us hostage, preventing us from realizing our potential, not just in football, but in pretty much every other field!
Even if we hire Guardiola and Klopp to work together, with incompetent administrators, failure upon failure will be the outcome. We might get lucky from time to time, but our luck will run out, and we’ll be right back on the failure track.
With proper administrators, we will get quality coaches for our national teams, pay them in timely fashion, pay the players what they are owed, take care of their welfare, and run a competitive football league, where local talents have a chance to flourish. With all these in place, the trophies will start coming in.
Nigeria is a mafia country where leaders are selected,administrators are selected,votings don’t count at all levels even the Nff elections are not left out in this criminality.
We as a people don’t make the right choices,we’re blinded by tribalism and wickedness which comes back to bite us so hard,yet,we make same mistakes over and over again,we’re just our own enemies unfortunately.
After all,the NFF officials didn’t fall from the moon,they’re Nigerians and I’m sure years before they got into power,they must have criticised past administrations just like we’re passionately doing here,this sequence will carry on into the future I’m afraid.
The sanitisation has to start from the top.The presidency.
The moment we start having credible candidates and elections at the top,then we’re ready for that much awaited change we have been advocating for years!