Emile Rustom

Emile Rustom
Personal information
Full name Emile Boulos Rustom
Date of birth (1952-03-27) 27 March 1952 (age 72)[1]
Place of birth Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Team information
Current team
Sagesse (advisor)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1988 Sagesse
International career
1970s–1980s Lebanon 2+ (0+)
Managerial career
2005 Sagesse
2008–2010 Nejmeh
2008–2011 Lebanon
2011 Lebanon
2013–2014 Shabab Sahel
2015–2016 Safa
2017 Ansar
2020 Safa
2022–2023 Sagesse
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Emile Boulos Rustom (Arabic: إميل بولس رستم; born 27 March 1952) is a Lebanese football coach and former player who an advisor for Lebanese Premier League club Sagesse.

After playing with Sagesse for 22 years, and the Lebanon national team for nine, he became Sagesse's coach in 2005. He then coached Nejmeh, Shabab Sahel, Safa, and Ansar. He is the first coach to win the Lebanese Premier League with two different teams (Nejmeh and Safa), as well as the first coach to coach both cross-city rivals Nejmeh and Ansar. Rustom also coached Lebanon, from 2008 to 2011.

Rustom is the father of Paul, a former Lebanese Premier League and Lebanon national team player.

  1. ^ "Emile Rustom - Free - Stats - titles won". www.footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 25 January 2020.