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Paul Put

Paul Put

Belgian football manager (born 1956)

Paul Put (born 26 May 1956) is a Belgian football coach who manages the Uganda national team.

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Career

Put was manager of the Gambian national team between 2008[1] and 2011,[2] before being appointed as manager of Burkina Faso in March 2012.[3] He had previously managed Belgian club sides Geel, Lokeren and Lierse, before being banned for three-years by the Royal Belgian Football Association for his alleged involvement in the Ye Zheyun match-fixing scandal.[4]

Put left his role as Burkina Faso manager in February 2015,[5] before becoming manager of Jordan in June 2015.[6] Following a two-week suspension by the Jordan Football Association on 20 December 2015,[7] Put resigned his position as manager of the Jordan national team in January 2016.[8] He was shortlisted for the Guinea national team job in July 2016.[9]

On 30 October 2016, he was announced as manager of Algerian club USM Alger, on a two-year contract.[10] In February 2017 he was one of a number of managers on the shortlist for the vacant Rwanda national team manager role.[11] He became the manager of the Kenyan national team in November 2017,[12] before resigning in February 2018.[13]

He became manager of Chinese club Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard later that month, signing a three-year contract.[14] In March 2018 he was appointed manager of the Guinea national team.[15] He was sacked in July 2019,[16] and received a lifetime ban by the Guinea Football Federation in August 2019.[17]

On 1 October 2019, Put was appointed sporting director of Wydad Casablanca.[18]

In October 2020, he was appointed by Bangladeshi top flight club Saif SC as their new head coach. [19][20][21] He resigned in February 2021.[22]

He became manager of Congo in May 2021.[23] He became manager of Uganda in 2023.[24]

References

  1. [1]
    "GFA Finally Sign Coach Paul Put". The Point. Gambia. 21 May 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Gambia begin search for new coach after sacking Put". BBC Sport. 3 November 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Former Gambia coach Put handed reins at Burkina Faso". BBC Sport. 24 March 2012.
  4. [4]
    Kingsley Kobo (23 March 2012). "Belgian Paul Put named Burkina Faso coach". Goal.com.
  5. [5]
    "AllAfrica.com: Burkina Faso: Paul Putt Parts with Burkina Faso". Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  6. [6]
    "Jordanië stelt Paul Put aan als bondscoach". Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Jordan FA temporarily suspends National Team head coach Paul Put". Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
  8. [8]
    "Belgian Put resigns as Jordan coach". sports.yahoo.com. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  9. [9]
    "Put and Rohr on Guinea coach shortlist". BBC Sport. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  10. [10]
    "USM Alger : le Belge Paul Put nouvel entraineur". lagazettedufennec. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  11. [11]
    Oluwashina Okeleji (14 February 2017). "Samson Siasia and Winfried Schafer on Rwanda coach shortlist". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  12. [12]
    "Kenya name Paul Put as new coach of Harambee Stars". BBC Sport. 18 November 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  13. [13]
    "Paul Put resigns as coach of Kenya's Harambee Stars". BBC Sport. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  14. [14]
    "Paul Put lands lucrative deal with Chinese side". Daily Nation. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  15. [15]
    "Belgian Paul Put appointed as new Guinea coach". BBC Sport. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  16. [16]
    "Africa Cup of Nations: Guinea sack coach Paul Put amidst air of "mistrust"". BBC Sport. 16 July 2019.
  17. [17]
    "Guinea federation bans former coach Paul Put for life". BBC Sport. 17 August 2019.
  18. [18]
    PAUL PUT NOMMÉ DIRECTEUR SPORTIF DU WYDAD CASABLANCA, africatopsports.com, 1 October 2019
  19. [19]
    October 27, ক্রীড়া প্রতিবেদক; PM, 2020 at 6:04. "বিতর্কিত অতীত জেনেই নতুন কোচ আনছে সাইফ স্পোর্টিং". www.prothomalo.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 31 October 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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    "সব জেনেও পল পুটকে আনছে সাইফ". m.mzamin.com. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  21. [21]
    "'বিতর্কিত' পল পুটই সাইফের নতুন কোচ | banglatribune.com". Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  22. [22]
    "Saif coach Paul Put resigns". Daily Sun.
  23. [23]
    "Put is new coach of Congo men's football team". BBC Sport.
  24. [24]
    "Ex-Kenya coach Paul Put to lead Uganda Cranes". Nation. 2 November 2023.


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