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{{Infobox handball biography<br />
| name = Alain Portes<br />
| image = Alain Portes-20151129.jpg<br />
| image_size = 200px<br />
| caption = Portes in 2015<br />
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|31 October 1961}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Béziers]], France<br />
| height =<br />
| currentclub = <br />
| years1 = 1982–1994<br />
| clubs1 = [[USAM Nîmes Gard|USAM Nîmes]]<br />
| nationalyears1 = 1983–1992<br />
| nationalteam1 = [[France men's national handball team|France]]<br />
| manageryears1 = 1995–2004<br />
| managerclubs1 = [[Handball Cercle Nîmes|HBC Nîmes]]<br />
| manageryears2 = 2006–2009<br />
| managerclubs2 = [[USAM Nîmes Gard|USAM Nîmes]]<br />
| manageryears3 = 2009–2013<br />
| managerclubs3 = [[Tunisia men's national handball team|Tunisia]]<br />
| manageryears4 = 2013–2016<br />
| managerclubs4 = [[France women's national handball team|France (women)]]<br />
| manageryears5 = 2017-2018<br />
| managerclubs5 = [[:fr:Grand Besançon Doubs Handball|GBDH Besançon]]<br />
| manageryears6 = 2018–2019<br />
| managerclubs6 = [[Al-Duhail SC (handball)|Al-Duhail SC]]<br />
| manageryears7 = 2019–2021<br />
| managerclubs7 = [[Algeria men's national handball team|Algeria]]<br />
| show-medals = yes<br />
| medaltemplates =<br />
{{MedalOlympic}}<br />
{{MedalBronze|[[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Barcelona]]|[[Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|Team]]}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Alain Portes''' (born 31 October 1961) is a French [[handball]] player and coach, who competed in the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]. He have formerly coached the [[Tunisia men's national handball team|Tunisian national team]], [[France women's national handball team|France women's national team]] and [[Algeria men's national handball team|Algerian national team]].<br />
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==Player career==<br />
Son of a former international handball player, he began handball in the club founded by his father before being spotted and recruited from the juniors by [[USAM Nîmes Gard]]. He spent his entire career there, winning four French championship titles and three French cups. He stopped his career in 1994 after a final vice-champion title, the club being demoted to the lower division following a bankruptcy.<br />
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He had his first experience with the [[France men's national handball team]] in 1983 and participated in its long construction under the leadership of [[:fr:Daniel Costantini|Daniel Costantini]] who led France from the bottom of Group C worldwide in the early 1980s to the top of the world hierarchy. For Alain Portes, this will translate into a bronze medal at the [[1992 Summer Olympics|1992 Olympic Games]] in [[Barcelona]].<br />
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==Coaching career==<br />
In 1995, he became a coach in the other Nîmes club, the women team of [[Handball Cercle Nîmes|HBC Nîmes]], with whom he won the first European title in the history of French women's handball, namely the 2001 Challenge Cup. In 2004, after 9 years at the head of the club, Alain Portes leaves the D1 to supervise the emerging Training Center.<br />
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In 2006, he was chosen to take the reins of his former club, [[USAM Nîmes Gard]]. He managed to hoist the club in 5th place in 2007 and 2008, the two best results of the club since the title of vice-champion in 1994 in which he participated.<br />
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In early June 2009, he signed a three-year contract with the [[Tunisia men's national handball team|Tunisian men's national team]]. After three weeks of preparation, he obtained with Tunisia the 3rd place at the [[Handball at the 2009 Mediterranean Games|Mediterranean Games]]. In February 2010, he won the [[2010 African Men's Handball Championship|African Nations Championship]] in [[Cairo]] by beating the [[Egypt men's national handball team|Egyptian team]] in the final with a score of 24–21. Title which he kept two years later, having Algeria 23–20 in the final of the [[2012 African Men's Handball Championship|2012 edition]] which allowed him to qualify for the [[2012 Olympic games]] in [[London]]. Finally, at the [[Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2012 Olympics]], he narrowly lost to [[Croatia men's national handball team|Croatia]] in the quarterfinals. He qualified with the Tunisian team to the round of 16 of the [[2013 World Men's Handball Championship]] in [[Spain]] after a good performance by beating the team of [[Germany men's national handball team|Germany]] 25–23 in the first round.<br />
[[File:Alain Portes 20150319.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Portes in a time-out in a match of France and Denmark during the 2015 Golden League.]]<br />
On June 11, 2013, he took over from [[Olivier Krumbholz]] at the head of the [[France women's national handball team|French women's team]]. With a team under reconstruction, he made an excellent start to the [[2013 World Women's Handball Championship|2013 World Championship]] before losing in the quarterfinals against the [[Poland women's national handball team|Polish team]]. Subsequently, the French women stumble twice at the gates of the semi-final, either at [[2014 European Women's Handball Championship|Euro 2014]] (5th place) or at the [[2015 World Women's Handball Championship|2015 World Championship]] (7th place).<br />
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In July 2017, he signed a 3-year contract as a coach with the [[:fr:Grand Besançon Doubs Handball|Grand Besançon Doubs Handball]]. However, he put an end to it at the end of the 2017–2018 season primarily for personal reasons (his family stayed in the Gard) and not because of the poor results of the club.<br />
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In December 2018, Alain Portes sets sail for the Arab world by signing until the end of the 2018–2019 season for the Qatari club [[Al-Duhail SC (handball)|Al-Duhail SC]], defending champion and qualified for the [[2018 Asian Men's Club League Handball Championship|Asian Champions League]] that he won.<br />
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In May 2019, he was named coach of the [[Algeria men's national handball team|Algerian national men's team]]. He managed to qualify for the [[2021 World Men's Handball Championship|2021 world championship]] after obtaining the bronze medal at the [[2020 African Men's Handball Championship|2020 African championship]] hosted by [[Tunisia]].<br />
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==Player Honours==<br />
===National Team Honours===<br />
* [[Summer Olympics]]:<br />
** ''Bronze Medal'': [[Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics|1992]]<br />
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===Club Honours===<br />
* [[LNH Division 1|French League]]:<br />
** ''Winners'': 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993<br />
* [[Coupe de France (handball)|French Cup]]:<br />
** ''Winners'': 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993<br />
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==Coach Honours==<br />
[[File:Alain Portes 20140524.png|thumb|right|150px|Alain Portes in 2014.]]<br />
===National Team Honours===<br />
* [[Summer Olympics]]:<br />
** ''Quarter-finals'': [[Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|2012]]<br />
* [[African Men's Handball Championship]]:<br />
** ''Winners'': [[2010 African Men's Handball Championship|2010]], [[2012 African Men's Handball Championship|2012]]<br />
** ''Third Place'': [[2020 African Men's Handball Championship|2020]]<br />
* [[World Women's Handball Championship]]:<br />
** ''Quarter-finals'': [[2013 World Women's Handball Championship|2013]], [[2015 World Women's Handball Championship|2015]]<br />
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===Club Honours===<br />
* [[Women's EHF Challenge Cup]]:<br />
** ''Winners'': 2001<br />
* [[Asian Club League Handball Championship|Asian Champions League]]:<br />
** ''Winners'': [[2018 Asian Men's Club League Handball Championship|2018]]<br />
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==Individual Honours==<br />
* Elected in 2002 the best French left winger of all time by the [[French Handball Federation|FFHB]]<br />
* Selected in the "Europe team" in January 1993<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{sports-reference|po/alain-portes-1|Alain Portes}}<br />
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{{Tunisia handball squad 2012 Summer Olympics}}<br />
{{France squad 2013 World Women's Handball Championship}}<br />
{{France squad 2014 European Women's Handball Championship}}<br />
{{France squad 2015 World Women's Handball Championship}}<br />
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