Dominique Fernandez

Laos Assuming the role of head coach for the Laos national football team in April 2003, Fernandez was contacted by an official from the Lao Football Federation who informed the French coach that they had been tracking him since 1998 and offered him the job. His contract with the U23 team ended in January 2004. On April 26, 2004, he was appointed manager of the first team, competing in the V.League 1. He was replaced by Luis Alberto for the 2005 campaign.

Return to scouting Fernandez returned to France to join AS Saint-Étienne as a scout in May 2006, a position he held until September 2011. It was during this period that he identified Allan Saint-Maximin when the player was only ten years old and brought him to the Saint-Étienne academy.

Later career Reports in 2011 linked Fernandez to the Haiti national football team. Then-manager Edson Tavares reportedly recommended Fernandez to the Haitian Football Federation to monitor and scout Haitian players based in Europe. This role was later confirmed, as he was officially named a representative of the federation to assist Tavares in assessing players in Europe ahead of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.