Tunisia have sacked their head coach Sabri Lamouchi following their opening sport of the 2026 World Cup, a heavy 5-1 defeat to Sweden.
A press release on the Tunisian FA Instagram learn: “An settlement has been formally reached to dismiss coach Sabri Lamouchi.
“Plans are under way to appoint Mondher Kebaier as the national team coach [on an interim basis].”
Tunisia play Japan of their second group sport on Saturday earlier than dealing with the Netherlands.
Lamouchi was appointed in January and took cost of simply 5 video games. His solely win got here in a 1-0 victory over Haiti, who began their World Cup marketing campaign towards Scotland on the weekend.
The previous Nottingham Forest boss was showing at his second World Cup, having taken cost of Ivory Coast in 2014 the place they had been knocked out within the group phases.
Lamouchi joins choose few to be sacked mid World Cup
Evaluation from Sky Sports activities’ Callum Bishop:
On one hand, this announcement is a shock. Nobody expects a supervisor to be sacked throughout a World Cup. Nonetheless, those that comply with Tunisia carefully will know there have been reported rumours of discontent once they misplaced 5-0 to Belgium of their ultimate warm-up sport.
Much more extremely, that is historical past repeating itself for Tunisia. In 1998, they sacked Henryk Kasperczak after a poor begin. He was at the very least given two video games, failing to win them each.
Cha Bum-kun additionally misplaced his job with South Korea throughout the identical event, whereas Julen Lopetegui was sacked by Spain simply two days previous to the 2018 World Cup after he had been introduced as the brand new Actual Madrid boss.
As embarrassing as it could, at the very least for Lamouchi it is not unprecedented.
