In the 76th minute, with PSG having to fight hard to hold a lead given to them by an early own goal from Marseille defender Nicolas N'Koulou, coach Carlo Ancelotti finally threw him into the fray to replace Argentina's Javier Pastore.

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Lamine N'Diaye -- Mazembe head coach -- was delighted to have captured the African Champion's League in his first season with the team.

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The Coach of the Year award will be contested between Lamine N'Diaye, who led TP Mazembe to the African Champions League title, Milovan Rajevac, the man who masterminded Ghana's World Cup campaign, and Egypt's Hassan Shehata.

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"We just sat there, and he'd ask questions nonstop, " said Todd, now a coach with the New Jersey Titans, a junior team in Farmingdale, N.

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Former Ghana boss Milovan Rajevac was named Coach of the Year, the Serbian seeing off competition from TP Mazembe's Lamine N'Diaye and Egypt's Hassan Shehata.

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