Wilfried Nancy
Nancy in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1977-04-09) April 9, 1977
Place of birth Le Havre, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Columbus Crew (head coach)
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005 UQAM Citadins
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Toulon 9 (0)
1998–1999 Beaucairois 4 (0)
1999–2000 Raon-l'Étape 3 (0)
2000–2001 Ivry
2001–2002 Noisy-le-Sec 8 (1)
2002–2003 Châtellerault 2 (0)
2003–2005 Orléans
Managerial career
2011–2015 Montreal Impact Academy
2016–2021 Montreal Impact (assistant)
2021–2022 CF Montréal
2023– Columbus Crew
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 December 2022

Wilfried Nancy (born 9 April 1977) is a French professional football manager and former player, who is currently managing Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew.

Early life

Nancy was born in Le Havre to a Guadeloupean father and Senegalese-Cape Verdean mother. His father was in the French navy, and Nancy spent his early childhood in different regions, including Guadeloupe, Martinique, Djibouti and Réunion. At the age of 11, his family moved to Toulon and there he started playing organized soccer before moving to the academy of Toulon at the age of 14.[1]

Career

Nancy played professionally in France as a defender, and began his career with Toulon. He also had stints at various amateur and semi-professional clubs, including Beaucairois, Raon-l'Étape, Ivry, Noisy-le-Sec, Châtellerault, and Orléans before moving to Canada in August 2005 to play with the UQAM team.[1][2][3]

Managerial career

In 2005, Nancy became a coach for Collège Stanislas, while at the same time playing for his university team, UQAM Citadins.[1] His time at UQAM was brief, but remarkable, as he was voted most valuable player in Quebec, in addition to being named to the first all-star team in Quebec and Canada. He also helped the Citadins finish second in the Quebec conference.[4] After retiring as a footballer, Nancy became a full-time coach in 2006 and started coaching AAA soccer; the highest amateur league level in Québec. He coached Québec's provincial teams from 2007, and was also assistant technical director of the Association régionale de soccer de la Rive-Sud in 2008.[1][5][6]

He was part of the Montreal Impact Academy since its inception in 2011 starting with the U18s, then the U21s in 2014, followed by the U16s from 2014 to 2015. He was promoted to assistant coach for the first team on 7 January 2016.[6]

On 8 March 2021, following Thierry Henry's resignation, Nancy was promoted to head coach for CF Montréal becoming the club's first coach following their re-branding from the Impact name.[7] On 28 May 2021, after just seven games as head coach, it was announced that CF Montréal had exercised its option on Nancy's contract for the 2022 season.[8][9] Nancy lead CF Montréal to the final of the 2021 Canadian Championship, beating Toronto FC 1–0, qualifying them for the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League.[10]

During the 2022 Major League Soccer season, Nancy's CF Montréal lost in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League to Cruz Azul.[11] On 9 July, Nancy and Montréal owner Joey Saputo got into a verbal altercation, with Saputo wanting to voice his frustration with the club's loss to bottom of the table Sporting KC. After that incident, Nancy requested to leave immediately, but changed his mind after discussing it with his players.[12][13] Nancy finished the 2022 regular season with the second-best record in the East and set a franchise-record with 20 wins and 65 points in the regular season. During the playoffs, CF Montréal would end up losing to New York City FC in the conference semifinals.[14] Nancy narrowly lost the MLS Coach of the Year award, losing by one-tenth of a percentage point to Jim Curtin.[15] Due to a clause in his contract, Nancy's 2023 contract option was automatically triggered by the club making the 2022 MLS Cup Playoffs.[16]

Nancy was announced as the Columbus Crew head coach on December 6, 2022, after the Crew were required to compensate Montréal since Nancy was still under contract.[17][18] In his first season as coach, the Crew finished third in the regular season, playing what observers described as an attractive style of football.[19] In the postseason, Columbus would overcome their archrivals FC Cincinnati in the conference finals, then outlast defending champions Los Angeles FC in the final. Nancy became the first Black coach to win MLS Cup.[20]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 9 December 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
CF Montréal Canada 8 March 2021 6 December 2022 79 37 17 25 123 105 +18 046.84 [21]
Columbus Crew United States 6 December 2022 present 46 25 10 11 99 62 +37 054.35
Total 125 62 27 36 222 167 +55 049.60

Honors

Manager

CF Montréal

Columbus Crew

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Duchesneau, Frédérick (April 16, 2021). "Wilfried Nancy | Un grand voyageur au gouvernail". La Presse.
  2. ↑ "Wilfried Nancy - Assistant Coach". CF Montréal.
  3. ↑ Ducharme, Jean-François (8 March 2021). "L'ancien Citadin Wilfried Nancy à la tête du CF Montréal" [At the head of CF Montreal]. Actualités UQAM (in French).
  4. ↑ Ducharme, Jean-Francois (2021-02-26). "À la tête du CF Montréal | UQAM". actualites.uqam.ca (in French). Archived from the original on 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  5. ↑ "MLS : Wilfried Nancy nommé entraîneur-chef du CF Montréal". RDS.ca (in French). 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  6. 1 2 "Wilfried Nancy named CF Montréal head coach". CF Montréal. 8 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Le Français Wilfried Nancy maintenu au poste d'entraîneur du CF Montréal (MLS) après le départ de Thierry Henry" [Frenchman Wilfried Nancy retained as CF Montreal (MLS) coach after Thierry Henry's departure]. L'Équipe (in French). 8 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Lévesque, Dave (2021-05-28). "Wilfried Nancy gardera son poste en 2022". Le Journal de Montréal. Archived from the original on 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  9. ↑ Bogert, Tom (2021-05-28). "CF Montréal exercise Wilfried Nancy's 2022 contract option". mlssoccer. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  10. ↑ "CF Montreal defeats Toronto FC to win 2021 Canadian Championship". Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  11. ↑ D'Amours, Tristan (2022-03-16). "Recap: CF Montréal 1, Cruz Azul 1 (1-2 aggregate: CAZ advance)". mlssoccer. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  12. ↑ Laradi, Elias (2022-12-06). "Is Nancy's Exit A Sign Of Bigger Problems At CF Montreal?". Northern Tribune. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  13. ↑ Téotonio, Jean-François (2022-12-06). "" J'ai été loyal envers le club ", affirme Wilfried Nancy". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  14. ↑ "NYCFC down Montreal to keep title defense alive". ESPN. 23 October 2022. Archived from the original on 25 February 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  15. ↑ mlssoccer (2022-10-25). "Philadelphia Union's Jim Curtin named 2022 MLS Sigi Schmid Coach of the Year". mlssoccer. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  16. ↑ Bogert, Tom (2022-10-25). "Sources: Columbus Crew make CF Montréal's Wilfried Nancy head coach target". mlssoccer. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  17. ↑ "'There is everything here to do something great': Wilfried Nancy introduced as Crew coach". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  18. ↑ ColumbusCrew.com. "Columbus Crew names Wilfried Nancy as Head Coach | Columbus Crew". ColumbusCrew.com. Retrieved 2023-02-25.
  19. ↑ Rueter, Jeff (2023-12-09). "How the Columbus Crew did what others couldn't against LAFC on the MLS Cup winning goal". The Athletic. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  20. ↑ Meyer, Maddie (10 December 2023). "Columbus Crew coach Wilfried Nancy became the first black coach to win MLS Cup thanks to Saturday's win over Los Angeles FC". NBC Right Now. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  21. ↑ "Wilfried Nancy named CF Montréal head coach". CF Montréal. 8 March 2021.
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