Patrice Lair
French footballer
Patrice Lair (born 16 June 1961) is a French football coach and a former player. He is the current head coach of Liga MX Femenil club Toluca.
Career
As a footballer Lair played in the lower categories in France. After spending a decade with Stade Briochin and Avranches, in 1987 he moved to Périgueux, where he had his first experience as a coach, coaching the junior team while playing in the first team. He repeated these functions in St.-Malo before making his debut as a player-coach in Pouancé in 1993. He subsequently played and coached for Racing Doué, Pouzages, Trélissac, Briviste and Reims either as a player-coach or training junior teams, before retiring in 2001.
After retiring, he was appointed the assistant coach of Stade de Reims, which was promoted in 2002 to Ligue 2 after a decade in lower categories. After first team coach Marc Collat was sacked in 2003, he was offered his position, but he declined the offer and moved to Angoulême as an assistant coach. In 2004, he held his first position as a first team coach at Villeneuve, and in 2005 he made his debut in women's football, taking charge of defending champion Montpellier Women. Under Lair's two year tenure, Montpellier won two national cups, reached the 2006 European Cup semi-finals and was the championship's runner-up behind Juvisy and Lyon.
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