RABAT, May 13 (Reuters) - Frenchman Roger Lemerre has been named as Morocco's new national coach, to take charge on July 1, the Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) said on Tuesday.
Lemerre, who steered France to the European Championship
title in 2000 and Tunisia to African Nations Cup victory in
2004, flew to Morocco on Monday to discuss contract details with
the FRMF.
'At the end of the talks, it was agreed that all the
conditions are currently met for Lemerre to take over as the new
coach beginning July 1, 2008,' the FRMF said in a statement.
The statement gave no details of the deal but local
newspapers said Lemerre would be paid six million Moroccan
Dirhams ($810,400) per month.
Lemerre is still Tunisia's coach although his contract
expires next month. The Tunisian Football Federation said in
February after their team were eliminated in the African Nations
Cup quarter-finals that it would not renew Lemerre's contract.
The 66-year-old was Aime Jacquet's assistant when France won
the World Cup in 1998, taking charge after that success on home
soil and winning the European title in the 2000 tournament in
Belgium and the Netherlands.
He took the Tunisia post in 2002 in the wake of France's
shock first-round exit from the World Cup in Asia.
Under Lemerre, Tunisia won the African title on home soil in
2004 and qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
