Laurent Huard (born 26 August 1973) is a French

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

coach and a former player who is the academy coach of

Ligue 1 Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in France and the highest level of the French football league system. Administered by the Ligue de ...

club

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; Franco-Provençal: ''Sant-Etiève''), also written St. Etienne, is a city and the prefecture of the Loire département, in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regi ...

Playing career

Huard played for nine years at

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

, before stints at Sedan and

. In 2002, he had to end his career due to heart problems.

Coaching career

On 6 December 2023, Huard was appointed as caretaker manager by

following the dismissal of

Laurent Batlles Laurent Batlles (born 23 September 1975) is a French former professional footballer, who played as a midfielder, and current manager. Playing career Batlles was born in Nantes. In 1993, he emerged from the Toulouse academy into the senior squad, ...

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