Frenchman Hubert Velud was appointed coach of the Burkina Faso team on Friday for a two-year term, replacing Kamou Malo, the Burkinabe Football Federation (FBF) announced.
At 62, this former goalkeeper from Reims (1976-1989) is a connoisseur of African football: as a coach, he qualified Togo and Sudan for the African Cup of Nations, and won the African Cup of the African Confederation in 2016 with the Congolese club Tout Puissant Mazembe. He has also won several national championship titles, in Algeria with ES Sétif (2013) and USM Alger (2014) and in Congo with TP Mazembé (2016). He is the ” ideal choice to the position of national coach of the Stallions, said the vice-president of the FBF Issa Sidibé.
Hubert Velud was appointed by a recruitment commission which had received 64 applications, according to a press release from the FBF.
The previous coach Kamou Malo, who had nevertheless led the Stallions to the semi-finals of the last CAN in Cameroon in January, where they had been eliminated by Senegal (3-1), future winner of the competition, had not been reappointed after his contract expired in February.
He’s not a loser… He got positive results everywhere he went. He had qualified Togo for CAN 2010 before it ended tragically, the same with Sudan where a change of president at the Federation was fatal to him. Like in Kamou Malo, well, well
— Patrick Juillard (@PatrickJuillard) April 22, 2022