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Lemerre removed as French coach Posted: Friday July 05, 2002 5:07 AMUpdated: Friday July 05, 2002 10:18 AM LYON, France (AP) -- Roger Lemerre, who led the French soccer team's catastrophic World Cup title defense, was removed from his job as national coach Friday by French soccer's governing body. Lemerre was "discharged from his position as coach," the president of the French Football Federation, Claude Simonet, said after a meeting of the body's federal council. Lemerre's departure had been expected since France was eliminated in the first round of the World Cup last month. The team failed to win a match or score a goal, making for the worst title defense in the history of the tournament. Lemerre, 61, took over as coach after France's World Cup triumph
in 1998, and won the European Championship in 2000.
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