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...Korea/Japan 2002, French gaffer Roger Lemerre will be joined - in battle - by compatriot coaches Henri Michel (Tunisia), Bruno Metsu (Senegal) and Philippe Troussier (co-host Japan). These men are part of a long list of French managers whose personal success and exposure to France's remarkable player-development program won them jobs guiding national teams, professional clubs - and occasionally, as in Troussier's case, improving the entire structure of a country's soccer system. Troussier's three-year drive to recast the Japan Football Association a la français has already begun to bear fruit: under the 46-year...
...Troussier got the job on the recommendation of another foreign veteran of Japan, Arsène Wenger, the acclaimed French coach of the English club Arsenal. One of France's first coaching exports, Wenger moved from J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight to the Gunners in 1996, and promptly turned the London club into a veritable colony of expat French stars. Within two years, he had walked off with both the English Premiership title and the Football Association Cup. His bid to another F.A. cup was thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard...