marc livremont born 28 october 1968 is a former rugby union footballer and was the head coach of the french national rugby union team he played as a backrow forward for france gaining 25 caps from 1995 to 1999 and was selected in frances 1999 rugby world cup squad he also played with the french rugby sevens team and with the french barbariansborn 28 october 1968 in dakar senegal to a military father from the franchecomt and a mother from lorraine he was raised in argelssurmer with his six younger brothers and one younger sister who all play or played rugby at different high levels two are or have been international rugby players thomas who was also part of frances 1999 rugby world cup squad and is now coach of dax and matthieu the only girl of the family claire was a semiprofessional winning a french championship with toulouges in 2005 the two younger twins pierre and luc are also playing for lavenir castanen a fdrale 2 side 4th division as a centre and openside flanker respectively finally franois used to play for usa perpignan during the 1990slivremont began his rugby career with amateur club toile sportive catalane he then played for perpignan stade franais top 14 in 1998 and 2000 as well as biarritz olympiqueafter retiring from rugby livremont turned to coaching at us dax whom he guided to promotion to the top 14 in 2007 in a surprise move french rugby federation president bernard lapasset who is now chairman of the irb appointed livremont as the new head coach of the french national side after the 2007 rugby world cup replacing bernard laporte as assistants former french teammate mile ntamack was appointed to coach the backs while didier retire was nominated as the new forwards coachin 2010 livremont coached france to win the 2010 six nations championship and grand slam beating england 1210 the following year however pressure began to mount on him after six nation losses to england 179 and italy 2221 the latter of which was the first time italy had beaten france and came after france had led by twelve points with twenty minutes remaining and the next week france beat wales 289at the 2011 rugby world cup he guided france to the final where they played new zealand losing 7 8 after a very well played game livremont branded a section of his squad spoilt brats after he discovered some players went out to celebrate the semifinal win against wales he also did not make an appearance for the aftermatch interview sending his assistant instead however veteran backrower imanol harinordoquy who publicly criticized livremont during the tournament for browbeating the team in the media indicated after the tournament that the team had rebelled against him after the pool stage and had effectively managed themselves in the knockout rounds