ru_nationalteam ru_currentteam ru_currentposition ru_ntupdate ru_clubyears birth_place weight ru_nationalcaps height ru_proclubs article_title birth_date ru_nationalpoints image ru_position name ru_nationalyears
france france head coach 2007-10-25 1974 -- 1988 dakar , senegal 92 kg stlb on 25 1.83 m ftin 0 on És catalane marc lièvremont
 28 october 1968 -lrb- 25 -rrb- marc lièvremont.jpg flanker marc lièvremont 1995 -- 1999
marc lièvremont

marc lièvremont -lrb- born 28 october 1968 -rrb- is a former rugby union footballer and was the head coach of the french national rugby union team .
he played as a back-row forward for france , gaining 25 caps from 1995 to 1999 , and was selected in france 's 1999 rugby world cup squad .
he also played with the french rugby sevens team and with the french barbarians .
born 28 october 1968 in dakar , senegal to a military father from the franche-comté and a mother from lorraine , he was raised in argelès-sur-mer with his six younger brothers and one younger sister who all play or played rugby at different high levels .
two are or have been international rugby players : thomas -lrb- who was also part of france 's 1999 rugby world cup squad and is now coach of dax -rrb- and matthieu .
the only girl of the family , claire , was a semi-professional , winning a french championship with toulouges in 2005 .
the two younger twins , pierre and luc are also playing for l'avenir castanéen , a fédérale 2 side -lrb- 4th division -rrb- , as a centre and openside flanker respectively .
finally , françois used to play for usa perpignan , during the 1990s .
lièvremont began his rugby career with amateur club Étoile sportive catalane .
he then played for perpignan , stade français -lrb- top 14 -rrb- , in 1998 and 2000 , as well as biarritz olympique .
after retiring from rugby , lièvremont turned to coaching at us dax , whom he guided to promotion to the top 14 in 2007 .
in a surprise move , french rugby federation president bernard lapasset , who is now chairman of the irb , appointed lièvremont as the new head coach of the french national side after the 2007 rugby world cup , replacing bernard laporte .
as assistants , former french teammate Émile ntamack was appointed to coach the backs , while didier retière was nominated as the new forwards coach .
in 2010 lièvremont coached france to win the 2010 six nations championship and grand slam beating england 12 -- 10 .
the following year , however , pressure began to mount on him after six nation losses to england 17 -- 9 and italy 22 -- 21 -- the latter of which was the first time italy had beaten france , and came after france had led by twelve points with twenty minutes remaining and the next week france beat wales 28 -- 9 .
at the 2011 rugby world cup , he guided france to the final where they played new zealand , losing 8-7 after a very well played game .
lièvremont branded a section of his squad `` spoilt brats '' after he discovered some players went out to celebrate the semi-final win against wales .
he also did not make an appearance for the after-match interview , sending his assistant instead .
however , veteran back-rower imanol harinordoquy , who publicly criticized lièvremont during the tournament for browbeating the team in the media , indicated after the tournament that the team had rebelled against him after the pool stage , and had effectively managed themselves in the knockout rounds .
