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Sébastien Migné

French association football coach

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Source revisionSep 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ16732573 ↗
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Sébastien Bernard Henri Clément Migné (French pronunciation: [sebastjɛ̃ miɲe]; born 30 November 1972) is a French professional football former player, who is currently the head coach of the Gabon national team.

Managerial career

Migné was previously coach of the DR Congo national under-20 team. He was the first coach to qualify the team for the continental championships.

Migné was appointed coach of the Congo national team in March 2017. He left in March 2018.

On 3 May 2018, Migné was named the new coach of the Kenya national team. Under Migné Kenya was nominated for the CAF Men's national team of the year award in 2018, for the first time in history. He left in August 2019.

On 7 November 2019, he was announced as coach of the Equatorial Guinea national team.

He was dismissed by Marumo Gallants shortly before the club's second round 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup game against AS Vita Club after the team had failed to win any of their first five league games, scoring only one goal, and after he had apparently directed abusive language at the club's technical director, Harris Choeu.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sébastien Migné” is french association football coach. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sébastien, Migné and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2017, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-11-30. For this dossier, Sébastien, Migné and French is the immediate research focus.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16732573. VIAF identifies the subject as 522147093830125002578. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

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