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| Frenchman Hervé Renard has won the Africa Cup of Nations twice |
Former Côte d'Ivoire boss
Hervé Renard has been appointed as the new coach of Morocco to replace Badou
Zaki.
BBC
Sport report continues:
Renard
led Côte d'Ivoire to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2015, three years after
winning it with Zambia.
After
his Nations Cup victory with the Elephants Renard left to take over at French
club Lille in May but was sacked in November.
Zaki
left as coach of the Atlas Lions by mutual consent on 10 February.
As
well as the full national team the Morocco Football Federation has announced
that Renard will coach the one for locally-based players and oversee the
Olympic side.
He
has been set the targets of reaching the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of
Nations in Gabon as well as qualifying for the World Cup a year later in
Russia.
Renard
will have two assistants, one is his long-time deputy Patrice Baumel and the
other is the former Morocco international Mustapha Hadji.
Their
first competitive games will be home and away Nations Cup qualifiers against
Cape Verde at the end of March.
The
two sides are currently top of Group F having won both their matches so far,
Libya and Sao Tome are the other teams in the pool.
The Atlas Lions have also
progressed to the final round of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.
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