Song Nominated For Coach Of The Year Award By IFFHS

After 10 matches in charge at the helm of the Indomitable Lions, Coach Rigobert Song has been nominated, alongside 19 other coaches, in the category of coach of the year – by the IFFHS.

A few days before the end of 2022, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) unveiled the list of nominees for the “Coach of the Year” award. In the list, there’s the name of Rigobert Song, the Indomitable Lions gaffer.

In addition to the name of the Cameroonian technician, there are other juggernauts who took their teams to untrodden heights at the just ended FIFA world cup.

Song is in the company of Didier Deschamps (France), Walid Regragui (Morocco), Lionel Scaloni (Argentina) and Zlatko Dalíc (Croatia). The aforementioned names reached the last four of the World Cup.

Rigobert Song has won 3 games across all competitions against Algeria, Brazil and Burundi. There has been 3 draws in his reign as well, and then, four defeats.

The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) was founded in March 1984 in Leipzig, Germany and is today registered in Zurich, Switzerland. More than 211 countries from all over the world, from all football continents, are represented in the IFFHS.

The course of the statutory object of the IFFHS responds to the demands of the regulations of the FIFE. For now, the activities of the IFFHS correspond to the efforts and instructions of FIFA, in order to statistically present world football.

The main purpose of IFFHS is the chronological documentation of world football results, football related data and information on FIFA and confederation tournaments, international and national matches, teams, leagues, federations, players and referees.

The IFFHS organizes, through its expert members from federations around the world, votes and statistical data, in order to determine the ranking of teams, leagues, players, referees each year and to promote and establish special events and recognized awards in the world of football.

IFFHS nominees For coach of the year (2022)

Zlatko Dalic – Croatia

Didier Deschamps – France

Fernando Santos – Portugal

Louis van Gaal – Netherlands

Gareth Southgate – England

Czeslaw Michniewicz – Poland

Murat Yakin – Switzerland

Lionel Scaloni – Argentina

Tite – Brazil

Gustavo Alfaro – Ecuador

Walid Regragui – Morocco

Aliou Cissé – Senegal

Otto Addo – Ghana

Rigobert Song – Cameroon

Jalel Kadri – Tunisia

Gregg Berhalter – USA

Graham Arnold – Australia

Hajime Moriyasu – Japan

Paulo Bento – South Korea

Hervé Renard – Saudi Arabia