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Bordeaux have announced that former player Jean Tigana will be the club's new manager, taking up the position made vacant by Laurent Blanc's departure to coach the French national team.
Tigana, 54, has been out of management since leaving Turkish side Besiktas in 2007 and will likely be welcomed with open arms at Bordeaux - the club where he spent eight years of a hugely successful playing career.
The former Fulham boss won three league titles and two French Cups with les Girondins as a player, and was an integral part of France's 1984 European Championship-winning side.
Bordeaux president Jean-Louis Triaud was keen to find a replacement for the departing Blanc as soon as possible, plumping for Tigana after being impressed with the Mali-born boss in two interviews.
Tigana has an impressive managerial track record, especially in France, where he led Lyon to second place in Ligue 1 in 1995, before guiding Monaco to their sixth league title in 1997.
He departed French shores for England in 2000, where he took the reins at Fulham, masterminding their promotion to the Premier League in his first season and securing an impressive 13th-place finish and European football in his second.
Tigana was sacked by the Cottagers in 2003 and eventually won a £2 million payout from the club for wrongful dismissal, moving on to Besiktas, where he won two successive Turkish Cups.
He is expected to sign a two-year deal as coach and will be presented to the press at the club's Haillan training ground on Tuesday.
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