Paul Put

Paul Put (born 26 May 1956) is a Belgian football coach who manages Congo.

Career

Put was manager of the Gambian national team between 2008 and 2011, before being appointed as manager of Burkina Faso in March 2012. He had previously managed Belgian club sides Geel, Lokeren and Lierse, before being banned for three-years by the Royal Belgian Football Association for his alleged involvement in the Ye Zheyun match-fixing scandal.

Put left his role as Burkina Faso manager in February 2015, before becoming manager of Jordan in June 2015. Following a two-week suspension by the Jordan Football Association on 20 December 2015, Put resigned his position as manager of the Jordan national team in January 2016. He was shortlisted for the Guinea national team job in July 2016.

On 30 October 2016, he was announced as manager of Algerian club USM Alger, on a two-year contract. In February 2017 he was one of a number of managers on the shortlist for the vacant Rwanda national team manager role. He became the manager of the Kenyan national team in November 2017, before resigning in February 2018.

He became manager of Chinese club Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard later that month, signing a three-year contract. In March 2018 he was appointed manager of the Guinea national team. He was sacked in July 2019, and received a lifetime ban by the Guinea Football Federation in August 2019.

On 1 October 2019, Put was appointed sporting director of Wydad Casablanca.

In October 2020, he was appointed by Bangladeshi top flight club Saif SC as their new head coach. He resigned in February 2021.

He became manager of Congo in May 2021.

References

External links

Paul Put Interview

1956 births

Living people

People from Merksem

Sportspeople from Antwerp

Royale Union Saint-Gilloise players

Belgian football managers

K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen managers

Lierse S.K. managers

Royal Excel Mouscron managers

Gambia national football team managers

Burkina Faso national football team managers

Jordan national football team managers

USM Alger managers

Kenya national football team managers

Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C. managers

Guinea national football team managers

Saif Sporting Club managers

Congo national football team managers

Belgian Pro League managers

Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 managers

China League One managers

Bangladesh Premier League (football) managers

2013 Africa Cup of Nations managers

2015 Africa Cup of Nations managers

2019 Africa Cup of Nations managers

Belgian expatriate football managers

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Gambia

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Burkina Faso

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Jordan

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Algeria

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Kenya

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in China

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Guinea

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in Bangladesh

Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Republic of the Congo

Expatriate football managers in the Gambia

Expatriate football managers in Burkina Faso

Expatriate football managers in Jordan

Expatriate football managers in Algeria

Expatriate football managers in Kenya

Expatriate football managers in China

Expatriate football managers in Guinea

Expatriate football managers in Bangladesh

Expatriate football managers in the Republic of the Congo