Egypt’s Al Ahly SC have shortly announced the appointment of Swiss René Weiler as the team’s new head coach following Uruguayan coach Martin Lasarte, who was sacked after Al-Ahly’s elimination from the Egyptian Cup competition as they lost 1-0 to Pyramids.
Lasarte was appointed as Al-Ahly manager on January, to follow the sacked manager, Patrice Carteron, and since then he led the club in 31 games.
Under Lasarte’s command, Al-Ahly won the Egyptian league title after a fierce competition with their arch rivals, Zamalek but the club was knocked out of the CAF Champions League competition from the quarter finals, having lost 5-1 on aggregate to MamelodiSundowns.
Weiler’s coaching career in lines:
Weiler became an assistant coach for Winterthur on 1 March 2001.
He was interim head coach from June 2001 to July 2001 and from January 2002 to February 2002.
He was head coach of St. Gallen between 9 October 2007 and 28 October 2007.
Weiler became head coach of Aarau on 13 April 2011.[5] He left Aarau on 21 May 2014.
Weiler became the new head coach of 1. FC Nürnberg on 12 November 2014.
He became the head coach of Anderlecht on 1 July 2016. On 18 September 2017, he was sacked following a 3-0 away defeat to Bayern in the Champions League.
In April 2018 he was one of 77 applicants for the vacant Cameroon national team job.
Now after having spent over six months without a club, the 45-year-old will undergo his first challenge outside of Europe with African giants Al Ahly.
His first scheduled fixture will be on September 13 when the Red Devils face Equatorial Guinea’s Cano Sport in the first leg of the CAF Champions League first round.
The 45-year-old will become the first-ever Swiss to take charge of Al Ahly and the fourth one to manage in Egypt in the last ten years after Alain Geiger (Al Masry), Michel Decastel and Christian Gross (Zamalek).
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