Alain Casanova

I have a soft spot for goalkeepers who become managers, and Alain Casanova fits the mold perfectly. A keeper spends ninety minutes alone at the back, reading the whole pitch and organizing everyone in front of him, so the leap to the dugout feels less like a career change than a natural extension of the job. He may never have scored the spectacular goals, but the patient, structural work of a man who guarded the last line for years is exactly the kind of craftsmanship I respect. I would happily watch a team he builds from the back.

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Name (English)

Alain Casanova

Name (Japanese)

アラン・カサノヴァ

Reading

あらん・かさのゔぁ

Born

September 18, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Height

179 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Casanova
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%8E%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q128842

Tags

• Puy-de-Dôme
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.