AFCON boss sacked mid-tournament – regardless that group might nonetheless win competitors
Ivory Coast boss Jean-Louis Gasset has been given the boot regardless of the squad nonetheless having a shot at progressing within the Africa Cup of Nations.
The match – which is being held within the Ivory Coast after being pushed again final 12 months – hasn’t seen the hosts fail to fireside as hoped by the house followers. That’s after they ended up putting third in Group A behind Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.
The Ivory Coast have been victorious of their first match however tumbled within the following two video games – even getting battered 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea – to position third of their pool. However, they may nonetheless sneak into the final 16 because the 4 greatest third-placed groups get these spots.
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As proposals stand, Gasset’s outdated group may be one of many fortunate ones to qualify, ready for Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s outcomes to see if they will be knocked out of the operating. But this wasn’t sufficient to maintain Gasset in his job, with each him and his assistant Ghislain Printant getting the sack.
The Ivory Coast are hoping to dodge leaving the match after the group stage, a destiny they final confronted again in 2017. If they handle that, Emerse Fae, one in all Gasset’s earlier coaches, will step in quickly.
An announcement said: “The contracts of coach Jean-Louis Gasset and his assistant Ghislain Printant are terminated due to insufficient results.”
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In an announcement, the Federation Ivoirienne de Football mentioned: “The Federation Ivoirienne de Football expresses its regrets for the performance of the Elephants during the group phase of the CAN (AFCON) 2023. However, it remains convinced of the potential of our football team, and calls for the unity of all for the upcoming events.”
Gasset, the 70-year-old supervisor appointed to the African facet in May 2022 after earlier stints with Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, PSG and the French nationwide group, led the group into their dwelling match as one of many favourites. But hopes light after they have been trounced by Equatorial Guinea following a 1-0 loss to Nigeria – two expensive setbacks that led to main doubts over their credentials.
Dismayed spectators watched as notable gamers Willy Boly, Franck Kessie, Ibrahim Sangare and Nicolas Pepe took to the sector in what turned out to be a crushing 4-0 defeat final trip. Struggling to articulate his ideas on the humiliation, Gasset confessed: “When you have a scenario like that, bordering on a nightmare, there’s not much you can say or do.
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