HERVE RENARD
“This is a key tournament for our football”
“As a past winner, what is the secret to success at the Africa Cup of Nations?
There is no secret. It’s impossible in football to predict which one you are going to win. Football is too difficult to press one button and to say: “Ah, this one we are going to win.”
Was there anything in particular that you might have done in the way you prepared your teams before the various tournaments that handed you an edge?
No, not really. I have had the same assistant for the last 10 years [fellow Frenchman Patrice Beaumelle], and of course we have picked up some experience along the way. We probably made some
