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  Gerard Houllier Liverpool Player Profile from 4thegame.com
Gerard Houllier arrived at Anfield to work alongside Roy Evans as joint manager in the summer of 1998.
Gerard was also the National Technical Director for the French Football Association from 1990 to 1998.
Prior to his illness, Gerard was renowned for his enthusiasm for the game and his willingness to help its development at all levels, serving on the FIFA Technical Committee and the JIRA and UEFA Technical Committees.
www.4thegame.com /club/lfc/manager-profile/583/_gerard_houllier_.html   (1339 words)

  
  Gérard Houllier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gérard Houllier, OBE (born September 3, 1947 at Therouanne, northern France) is a football coach and manager, currently the manager of the French champion side Lyon.
In 1998, at the age of 51, Houllier was invited to become joint team manager (together with Roy Evans) of Liverpool F.C. Unfortunately, the arrangement did not work well and Evans resigned a few months later, leaving Houllier in sole charge of the team.
On 29 May 2005 it was announced that Houllier had signed a two-year contract as manager of the champions of Ligue 1 for four successive years, Olympique Lyonnais, succeeding Paul Le Guen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerard_Houllier   (616 words)

  
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Houllier was saddened by the event which was of Evan's own choice: "Personally I would have preferred Roy to stay longer and if he had to leave, then he left the Club at the end of the year and even then stayed on in some role with us.
Initially Houllier's influence on the team was restrained, but in the Summer of 1999 he launched a daring and extensive programme of team-rebuilding.
Houllier has spoken openly about the this passion; "The moment your club goes through a difficult period is the moment to show whether you really care for the red shirt.
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Gerard Houllier believes that the Reds are at least 5 or 6 points behind schedule in their quest for a Champions League placing.
Gerard Houllier has once again stated that his team are not good enough to compete at the top and has insisted that the title is definately out of their reach for yet another season.
Houllier went on to excuse Michael Owen from any blame for the numerous chances that he missed, saying that it was impossible to expect Michael to regain his touch in front of goal after the lay off that he has had.
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 BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Liverpool | Houllier exits Liverpool
Morgan had been a fierce critic of Houllier, however, and the pressure he put on the board cannot have helped the Frenchman's cause.
Houllier, a former France coach and technical director of the French Football Federation, moved to Liverpool as joint-manager alongside Roy Evans in July 1998.
Houllier said his fondest memories included the 2001 FA Cup and Uefa Cup triumphs over Arsenal and Alaves respectively, and the fans' tribute at Anfield when he was recovering from heart surgery.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/3734773.stm   (516 words)

  
 David, Gerard on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Friday Teleconference: Steelworkers' Gerard on New Health Benefit for Union Retirees of LTV, Bethlehem, Acme Metals, Georgetown Steel.
Gerard Cuddy Joins Commerce Bank to Lead Commercial Lending and Private Banking in Pennsylvania.
LaDainian Tomlinson is tackled by Daylon McCutcheon, Ben Taylor, and Gerard Warren
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 OfficialPlayerSites.com: It's official!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gerard Houllier came to Anfield to work alongside Roy Evans as joint manager in the summer of 1998.
As Gerard Houllier leaves as manager of Liverpool, the bookmakers believe the book on his replacement is turning into a one-horse race.
GERARD HOULLIER'S Anfield future looked increasingly perilous last night as club officials refused to deny he was on the brink of losing his job as Liver-pool...
www.officialplayersites.com /managers/manager.php?id=14   (943 words)

  
 Im Just Lucky to be alive says Gerard Houllier || The Pool - Unofficial Liverpool News and Views
Houllier, now back in full control at Anfield after life-saving heart surgery six months ago, will be plotting Liverpool's 10th win in their last 11 Premiership games against Derby tomorrow to keep the pressure on Arsenal and Manchester United.
Houllier heard the words of close friends in football, such as Leeds boss David O'Leary and Arsene Wenger, advising him to walk away from the intensity of management with his health intact.
Houllier will wait for fitness checks on Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann and striker Emile Heskey, who are both nursing injuries, before deciding on his squad for the make-or-break clash with Derby.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s46/st2079.htm   (411 words)

  
 Gerard Houllier
Gerard Houllier has once again dismissed rumours over his health and has vowed to remain in the Liverpool hot-seat.
Houllier has been tipped to take a step back from the pressures of management and accept a place on the Reds’ board - but he says there is no chance of that.
Houllier was eventually promoted to national team manager only for his reign to end when France failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup.
www.myliverpool.org /liverpool/celebs&gossip-gerard_houllier.htm   (391 words)

  
 Between the Sticks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gerard Houllier enquired about the availability of the Scottish international with Brad Friedel set to leave at the end of the season and a cloud remaining over current number one David James' long term future at the club.
Gerard Houllier has decided he wants to unload both David James, valued at £1m, £300,000 less than his rating in 1992 when he moved from Watford, and Brad Friedel - and that means he needs a second keeper.
Gerard Houllier had trailed the giant keeper for months and will be delighted to finally tie his man to a five-year contract.
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 BBC - Liverpool Sport - Houllier
Gerard Houllier's time at Anfield is over, Liverpool announced that they had parted ways with their manager at a press conference at noon today.
respect is due for houllier and what he has done for the club but it was time for him to go and for some fresh attacking ideas and some quality singings and i hope someone can take what he has built and take it that bit further to what we want which is the title.
Houllier is a class act, i only wish the board could have kept the man at our club in some capacity...
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/sport/2004/05/24/houllier_comment.shtml   (2646 words)

  
 Liverpoolfc.tv: Past Manager Profile
In July 1998, Houllier returned to the city when he was appointed joint manager of the Reds alongside Roy Evans.
Houllier assumed sole control and in the summer of 1999 he launched an extensive programme of team rebuilding.
Houllier led the team to another Worthington Cup success before he was awarded the prestigious OBE in 2003.
www.liverpoolfc.tv /team/past_players/managers/houllierobe   (369 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | today Liverpool axe Houllier
Liverpool announced on Monday that manager Gerard Houllier was leaving the English Premiership club after six years in charge.
Houllier moved to Liverpool as joint-manager alongside Roy Evans in July 1998.
Houllier won five trophies in 2001 and won the League Cup for a second time in 2003, but failed to return the club to the past glories of the 1970s and 1980s.
sport.iafrica.com /news/324810.htm   (799 words)

  
 New Statesman: Cereball - Gerard Houllier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Houllier is shaping up as the Diderot of the Anfield dugout, an adrenalin-addicted philosopher alive to Liverpool's idiosyncratic sociology and to the special place occupied by the Merseyside soccer psyche.
Houllier fields the questions of his academic interrogators with aplomb -- he could probably have written their book for them.
Houllier is a thinking football manager in an age when having football on the brain threatens to become an inescapable condition.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4552_130/ai_77874890   (1175 words)

  
 shanklygates.co.uk - Story
Gerard has occasionally commented that he thought his pliers were magnificent.
Over the last few months Gerard has complained about injuries to his pliers, while others have suggested that he has used some of his collection of pliers incorrectly for jobs that they were not designed for.
Steven Gerard has occasionally been known to allow the red mist to descend when he has got the needle but with maturity he appears to be more able to control it.
liverpool.rivals.net /?sid=890&p=2&stid=8348282   (908 words)

  
 TheFA.com - Houllier hopes for change of fortune
Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier believes that Liverpool's experience in Europe gained over the past few years, will be critical in their UEFA Cup European experience will be the key factor in tonight's UEFA Cup 4th Round match away at
Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier believes that Liverpool's experience in Europe gained over the past few years, will be critical in their UEFA Cup European experience will be the key factor in tonight's UEFA Cup 4th Round match away at AJ Auxerre.
Houllier added: "The hallmark of his talent is that he has continued to score goals in Europe despite his problems in the league.
www.thefa.com /Features/UEFACup/Postings/2003/02/40621.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished   (696 words)

  
 BigSoccer Boards - Sylvain Wiltord hates Gerard Houllier ?
In 1993, when France was eliminated from the WC, Houllier, then coach, instead of assuming responsibility for a disastrous qualification run, including fiascos against Israel and Bulgaria, preferred to find a scapegoat.
Houllier also had the destiny of a club like Liverpool in his hands, one of the greatest in the world, but besides a couple of lesser trophies, never could make it more than a pale outsider, for behind MU and Arsenal.
apparently he's a good communicator and to come to the title issue (nino) houllier has called on him with coupet, cacapa and govou to be a team leader and things between them seem to be upbeat; they even shared a joke last friday.
www.bigsoccer.com /forum/printthread.php?t=201241   (548 words)

  
 Gerard Houllier: The Liverpool Revolution Kelly, Stephen F. Virgin Books Non-fiction Sports, Hobbies & Games : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Synopsis "Gerard who?" was the question Liverpool fans asked when a rather academic-looking Frenchman arrived at Anfield in the summer of 1998 to partner Roy Evans.
Many more questions were posed early on, particularly when Gerard Houllier brought in a number of players very few had ever heard of.
When in February 2002 Houllier was rushed to hospital with heart problems, the world of football held its breath.
www.ardis.co.uk /books/17947.htm   (541 words)

  
 staff profiles
Already regarded as one of the most talented coaches in the English game, Sammy is a regular member of the coaching staff of the England under-21 side and his record of helping develop reserve team players into first team stars at Liverpool has enhanced his reputation still further.
Bergues is Houllier's right hand man, whose career bears uncanny similarity to that of the man he befriended at grammer school.
I am there to give the players a massage as and when they require one because it is so important that they keep their body in as good a condition as possible.' Garry is Liverpool's first full-time masseur having started his work at Anfield in July 1998.
website.lineone.net /~peter_kopite/staff_profiles.htm   (5004 words)

  
 LFC Online - Manager History: Gerard Houllier
Houllier continued in sole-charge of the team, and at the end of the season launched a programme to rebuild the squad.
Within three seasons at Anfield, Houllier had made his mark, winning the FA Cup, Worthington Cup and UEFA Cup, and more importantly, qualification for the Champions League.
In 2001/02 Houllier was rushed to hospital during the Leeds game in October with heart problems and was temporarily replaced by Phil Thompson until an emotional return to Anfield for Liverpool's Champions League game with Roma in March.
www.lfconline.com /news/loadfeat.asp?cid=EDB4&id=138738   (267 words)

  
 ABC Sport - Soccer - Houllier facing nine-match survival fight after UEFA Cup exit
Gerard Houllier has insisted Liverpool can still win their nine-match battle to save their season and his job, despite seeing Michael Owen succumb to yet another injury as the Reds crashed out of the UEFA Cup.
Houllier was left fuming over the match's decisive moment, a 38th minute penalty which gave Marseille their opening goal and and led to Reds defender Igor Biscan being sent off.
Houllier said: "We have most of our players back from injury now and are in good shape for the run-in.
www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s1075106.htm   (649 words)

  
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Liverpool Echo, 17 Sept 2004 Tommo backs Rafa's Reds By John Thompson, Liverpool Echo LEAVING Liverpool Football Club in the wake of Gerard Houllier's departure was, admits Phil Thompson, 'a hell of a wrench'.
But he says it was a totally different experience to that he endured when he previously left the club's back-room staff, sent packing by Graeme Souness over allegations he had been disloyal in private remarks about the Scot's managerial abilities.
Added Thompson: "Gerard Houllier always wanted to leave a legacy - and he has done that." Tommo on: Benitez Rafael Benitez "I HAD a meeting with Rafael Benitez before I left the club and was aware of what he wanted.
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 Footie Threads - Gerard Houllier to resign?
Gerard Houllier has pledged to the board that he will get the club into next year's Champions League and that if he fails, he will resign as manager in the summer.
Sources close to O'Neill have informed agents said to be representing Liverpool that he is interested in the job but that he has concerns as to what role Gerard Houllier would play if he remains at the club.
Ideally that would be with Gerard Houllier in charge but support is waning by even the most loyal of his fans.
footiethreads.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3981   (648 words)

  
 Soccer Gaming Forums - Gérard Houiller to coach Lyon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The French champions have named Houllier as the successor to Paul Le Guen after he revealed earlier this month he would be stepping down at the end of the season.
Houllier, who has been out of work since leaving Liverpool last summer, has signed a two-year deal at Lyon with the option of a third.
When Houllier took liverpool they were in shambles, struggling, he took them consistently in the top 4 (minus 1 season), he raised expections, I guess he suffered for it at the end.
www.soccergaming.tv /showthread.php?s=&threadid=123768   (606 words)

  
 The Gerard Houllier Memorial Mailbox - Football365.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Gerard Houllier will be remembered fondly by Liverpool fans the world over for his 'plastic treble', his red scarf and for his dedication and dignity.
Houllier should be remembered as a gentleman who came to Liverpool and for a while turned us into a resemblance of our former selves.
Gerard Houllier did well at first but his 'I'll prove you all wrong' attitude, and the inability to acknowledge he has made a mistake have taken their toll.
www.football365.co.uk /opinion/mailbox/story_111086.shtml   (3565 words)

  
 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
French trainer Gérard Houllier signed a contract of two years, more an optional year, in favour of Olympic of Lyons, announced on Sunday afternoon the president of the club quadruple champion of France of football, Jean-Michel Aulas.
For the succession of Paul Le Guen, Gérard Houllier was notably in competition with the trainer of Lille Claude Puel, who announced on Sunday that he prolonged one year furthermore in the North.
Besides the fifth title in a row, it will be asked to him(her) to cross(exceed) a cape(course) in League of the champions, where OL propped up in quarterfinal these last two seasons.
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