Tunisia · Friday, 9 October 2026
Tunisia's World Cup coach breaks his silence, calls his sacking "humiliating"

French coach Sabri Lamouchi, sacked after a single World Cup match in charge of Tunisia following a 1-5 loss to Sweden, told Al Jazeera this week that he is "not sure" his players were "on the same wavelength" as his plans to refresh an ageing squad, and called his dismissal "crazy" and "humiliating." The remarks, Lamouchi's first since Hervé Renard took over for the rest of the tournament, have revived a public argument over what went wrong for the Eagles of Carthage, the subject of the day's heaviest search traffic in Tunisia.