Patrice Lair

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.

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 championMontpellier 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. Lair subsequently returned to male amateur football, coaching Castelnau for two seasons. In 2009, he moved to Benin to coach Espoir de Savalou, but he left the team after a month. He also coached briefly the Rwanda under-17 national team, also serving as the senior team's assistant coach, the following year.^[1]

2010年6月、ライールはファリド・ベンスティティの後任としてリヨン女子チームの監督に就任するためフランスに戻った。^{[ 2 ]}彼は2011年と2012年にFIFA女子サッカー世界最優秀監督賞にノミネートされた。^{[ 3 ]} 2013-14シーズンのディビジョン1フェミニン後、ライールは3年連続の国内2冠を達成した後、オリンピック・リヨン女子チームの監督を辞任した。^{[ 4 ]}彼は、これが完璧な退任方法だったと述べた。リヨンでの在任中、ライールはクラブをディビジョン1フェミニン4回、クープ・ドゥ・フランス・フェミニン3回、UEFA女子チャンピオンズリーグ2回の優勝に導いた。

2018年5月28日、彼はニオールの新監督に就任することが発表された。^{[ 5 ]} 2018年12月には停職処分を受け、^{[ 6 ]} 2019年1月に正式に解任された。^{[ 7 ]}

2019年6月4日、彼はリーグ2から降格したばかりのギャンガンの2019/20シーズンの監督に就任することが発表された。^{[ 8 ]} 9ポイントで14位という不振なスタートの後、彼は2019年9月23日に解任された。^{[ 9 ]}