He was reported to have been sacked after Sunday's match in Guadeloupe, Mexico, but was still training on Monday. However, the Tunisian Football Federation said the contract with the 54-year-old French coach Lamouche had been terminated by mutual consent.
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Tunisia have sacked head coach Sabri Lamouchi after a 5-1 defeat to Sweden in their opening match at the World Cup.
He was reported to have been sacked after Sunday's match in Guadeloupe, Mexico, but he was still training on Monday. However, the Tunisian Football Federation said the 54-year-old French coach's contract had been terminated by mutual consent. He has been replaced by another French coach, Herve Renard. Renard led Saudi Arabia to a sensational opening match against Argentina in the 2022 World Cup.
Lamouchi became the first coach in World Cup history to be sacked after just one match. Tunisia sacked manager Henryk Kasperkzak after a poor start to their 1998 World Cup campaign. South Korea sacked Cha Bum-kun after losing their first two matches at the same tournament.
Spain sacked Julen Laporte two days before the start of the 2018 World Cup. Spain were looking for a new coach after agreeing to focus on the national team but also becoming manager of Real Madrid in the meantime. But this is the first time Tunisia have sacked a coach, after their team lost a game at the World Cup.
Lamouche had been in charge of Tunisia for just five months. Tunisia sacked Sami Trabelsi in January after a last-16 defeat to Mali at the Africa Cup of Nations. Speaking after the defeat to Sweden, Lamouche described the defeat as “sad”. “It’s difficult to start the competition with such a bad result,” Lamouche said. “We made a lot of mistakes that we didn’t make before. We were shooting ourselves in the foot, hurting ourselves.”
