Morocco’s Assistant Coach Earns More Than Top African National Team Managers

"Beaumelle would thus receive 55,000 euros monthly, better than Djamel Belmadi, the coach of Algeria, who will play their quarter-final against Côte d’Ivoire this Thursday, and credited with a remuneration of 50,000 euros," writes Al Massae, which also mentions the salary of the former Moroccan international, Mustapha Hadji, Hervé Renard’s second assistant, who receives a salary of 30,000 euros monthly, placing him 8th in the ranking of the highest salaries of the competition.

Hervé Renard’s salary is rather largely above what had been reported in the media. It would amount to 120,000 euros, instead of 80,000 euros, from the Royal Moroccan Football Federation. As a result, the French coach’s monthly income far exceeds those of several other coaches. The media cites, among others, Javier Aguirre, the Mexican coach of Egypt, recently fired (108,000 euros), the Dutchman Clarence Seedorf, coach of Cameroon (96,000 euros), the Scotsman Stuart Baxter, coach of the South African "Bafana Bafana" (62,300 euros) or the Algerian Djamel Belmadi (50,000 euros).

Al Massae goes even further, explaining that Renard’s remuneration does not include travel and housing expenses. And according to this media, thanks to this level of salaries, the Moroccan staff (205,000 euros) is the best paid on the continent. Meanwhile, the same source recalls, all the technical staffs of the national teams and technical directorates cost around 87 million dirhams annually, while the preparation camps and travel of the national teams cost more than 21 million dirhams each year to the Moroccan taxpayer.