Corentin Martins

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Corentin Martins
Personal information
Full name Corentin Da Silva Martins[1]
Date of birth (1969-07-11) 11 July 1969 (age 52)
Place of birth Brest, France
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Attacking 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
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Corentin Da Silva Martins (born 11 July 1969) is a French football manager and former professional player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the manager of the Mauritania national team.

Playing career[]

Club[]

Martins was born in Brest, Brittany, and is of Portuguese descent.[2] He started his professional career with hometown club Stade Brestois 29. He then moved to AJ Auxerre in 1991, where he was part of the emergent side led by legendary Guy Roux that in 1992–93 reached the UEFA Cup semi-finals[3] and, four years later, achieved an historic double.[4]

On 30 May 1996, Martins signed with Deportivo de La Coruña in Spain.[5] After an impressive first season in La Liga, he lost his place in the squad due to injuries.[6] He returned to France in January 1998, joining RC Strasbourg.[7] He captained the side against Amiens SC in the 2001 edition of the Coupe de France which Strasbourg won on penalties.[8]

After a loan spell at FC Girondins de Bordeaux, Martins returned to Strasbourg until 2004, finishing his career with Clermont Foot.[citation needed]

International[]

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 made a total of 14 appearances, but his international career was eclipsed by the emergence of Zinedine Zidane.[9]

Coaching career[]

Martins started his managerial career in 2006 with lowly Quimper Cornouaille FC. In the following year he was named Brest's director of football, but had a brief spell as interim coach at the beginning of the 2008–09 campaign. He subsequently stayed on as an assistant coach for the Ligue 2 team.[10]

Martins returned twice more as caretaker manager for Brest: during the 2011–12 Ligue 1 season, after Alex Dupont was sacked; and again in 2012–13,[11] when Landry Chauvin was shown the door.[12] He managed to avert relegation on the first occasion, but failed decisively on the second, when he lost all of his eight matches in charge, resulting in a 20th-place finish and relegation to Ligue 2.[13]

On 8 October 2014, Martins was appointed manager of Mauritania.[14] In January 2019, he extended his contract until 2021.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ "Entreprise SCI Andrea à Guilers (29820)" [Company SCI Andrea in Guilers (29820)]. Figaro Entreprises (in French). 4 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
    "Corentin Da Silva Martins". BFM Business (in French). NextInteractive. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Avant Portugal-France: ces Bleus qui ont la Seleçao dans le coeur" [Before Portugal-France: these Blues that have the Seleçao in their heart] (in French). Eurosport. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  3. ^ Auxerre-Ajax: souvenirs, souvenirs (Auxerre-Ajax: memories, memories); Europe 1, 2 November 2010 (in French)
  4. ^ Un jour, une histoire, un club: AJ Auxerre (One day, one history, one club: AJ Auxerre)[permanent dead link]; L'Actu Sport, 19 December 2015 (in French)
  5. ^ Martins piropea a su nuevo club (Martins flirts with his new club); Mundo Deportivo, 30 May 1996 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Qué fue de... Corentin Martins: acento francés en Riazor (What happened to... Corentin Martins: French accent in Riazor); 20 minutos, 1 December 2004 (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Corentin Martins pone fin a su carrera deportiva (Corentin Martins ends sporting career) Archived 17 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine; La Voz de Galicia, 28 September 2004 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ "Strasbourg 0–0 Amiens" (in French). L'Équipe. 26 May 2001. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2016.
  9. ^ Frédéric Johansen, l’espoir brisé de la génération Zidane (Frédéric Johansen, the broken promise of generation Zidane); beIN Sports, 7 September 2015 (in French)
  10. ^ Ligue 2. Stade brestois: Martins va être licencié (Ligue 2. Stade brestois: Martins will be fired); Ouest-France, 27 September 2013 (in French)
  11. ^ Martins, le pari risqué (Martins, quite a gamble); L'Équipe, 26 April 2012 (in French)
  12. ^ Brest: Corentin Martins (encore) à la rescousse (Brest: Corentin Martins (again) to the rescue) Archived 31 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Eurosport, 3 April 2013 (in French)
  13. ^ Foot – L1 – Brest – Leur mission est impossible (Foot – L1 – Brest – Mission impossible for them) Archived 17 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine; Yahoo Sports, 11 May 2013 (in French)
  14. ^ Mauritania appoint Corentin Martins as coach; BBC Sport, 8 October 2014
  15. ^ Fajah Barrie, Mohamed (12 January 2019). "Mauritania coach Corentin Martins extends contract until 2021". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

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