Herve Renard has been appointed as the new coach for Tunisia during the remainder of their World Cup campaign, Yankee Scores reports.
This is in line with the decision to sack Lamouchi following disputes and unrests in the team’s dressing room after their 5-1 loss to Sweden.
Tunisia have appointed Herve Renard as their new head coach after firing Sabri Lamouchi just one game into the World Cup.
The Tunisian Football Federation announced the Frenchman had been appointed until the end of the 2026 World Cup.
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According to ESPN, Renard, aged 57, will arrive in Mexico, which currently is the host city for the Tunisian football team, on Tuesday afternoon, and start training his players on Tuesday evening in Monterrey.
In a statement made on Monday afternoon, Tunisia formally announced the dismissal of Sabri Lamouchi, who had coached the team in its first game against Sweden and before the World Cup.
Renard becomes the third coach to guide three nations in a men’s World Cup tournament. Previously he has led Morocco in 2018 and won just one draw and lost two games, finishing in the first round.
He later guided Saudi Arabia in the latest men’s World Cup edition in 2022, where the team shocked the world by defeating Lionel Messi-led Argentina and ending the latter’s 36-match unbeaten run. However, the Saudi Arabian team was eliminated from the competition when they couldn’t win any of the subsequent games.
He was also a coach for the French women’s national team at the Women’s World Cup, held earlier in 2023, where the team lost in the quarter-final to Australia.
This is the first time in the history of the men’s World Cup when a team dismissed its head coach after just one match in the tournament.
Sabri Lamouchi paid dearly not only for the humiliation suffered at the hands of Sweden on Sunday, but also for the tensions created due to differences between him and the federation as well as certain players.
