Régis Manon (22 October 1965 – 1 January 2018) was a Gabonese professional

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 ...

player and coach.

Career

Born in

Libreville Libreville (; ) is the capital and largest city of Gabon, located on the Gabon Estuary. Libreville occupies of the northwestern province of Estuaire Province, Estuaire. Libreville is also a port on the Gabon Estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. A ...

, Manon played club football for

FC 105 Libreville Football Canon (FC) 105 de Libreville is a Gabonese professional football club based in Libreville. It was founded in 1975 as the club of the army and the police. FC 105 play at the 5,000-capacity Stade Idriss Ngari in Owendo. They often play hom ...

, Tours B,

Tours Tours ( ; ) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Indre-et-Loire. The Communes of France, commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabita ...

and

Joué-lès-Tours Joué-lès-Tours (, literally ''Joué near Tours'') is a commune in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, central France. It is the largest suburb of the city of Tours, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Population ...

. He also played for the Gabonese national team, and was a squad member at the

1994 Africa Cup of Nations The 1994 African Cup of Nations, known as the Nescafé 1994 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes, was the 19th edition of the African Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organised by the Confe ...

. He later became a coach, for teams including

Mounana Mounana is a town in Gabon. It lies on the N3 road and from 1958 until the 1990s was a major uranium mining centre. The mine is now closed, and it is now primarily a centre for agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock p ...

and

Akanda Akanda is the 10th largest city in Gabon. It had a population of 34,548 in 2013. It is situated in the Estuaire Province Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km. The provincial capital is Ak ...

References

1965 births 2018 deaths Gabonese men's footballers Gabon men's international footballers FC 105 Libreville players Tours FC players US Joué-lès-Tours players Championnat National players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Men's association football forwards Gabonese expatriate men's footballers Gabonese expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 1994 African Cup of Nations players 1996 African Cup of Nations players Gabonese football managers 21st-century Gabonese people Footballers from Libreville {{Gabon-footy-bio-stub