Tag: Coaches
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Football – Benin: Are foreign coaches the solution?
With just one month to go before the start of the new 2023-2024 season, Beninese clubs are busy with the mercato, signing not only international players but also foreign technicians. This practice, which has been commonplace for the past two seasons, is intensifying as the next championship approaches. Benin’s professional soccer championship kicks off on…
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Football: Movement expected on the benches in Africa
The summer transfer window is about to open. And most of the attention will be focused on the players. But it will also be important to keep a close eye on what happens on the African bench in the coming weeks, with coaches likely to be on the move. The season has not yet come…
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Football – Mali: Technical staff still unpaid
There is still no relief for the salary arrears owed to the technical staff of Mali’s national coaches. With the exception of the 5 months’ salary arrears paid to the technical staff of the senior Eagles, following the players’ strike and the payment of their bonuses on 23 March 2023, no other technical staff has…
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CHAN 2022: Four top favorite coaches
The African Nations Championship (CHAN 2022) will be held from January 13 to February 4 in Algeria with, for the first time, eighteen teams divided into three groups of four and two groups of three. During this seventh edition, four coaches will be highly anticipated, for several reasons. Pape Thiaw, a golden opportunity Twelve years…
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World Cup 2022 – African coaches: Plus and minus
The World Cup ended with the coronation of Lionel Messi’s Argentina, ahead of the 2018 World Champions, after a month of competition in Qatar. For the first time in the history of the World Cup, the five African teams that participated in the final phase were all led by local coaches. Morocco by Walid Regragui,…
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World Cup 2022: The predictions of former coaches
The five African teams qualified for the World Cup (Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia) have not really been spoiled by the draw, even if the case of Senegal seems a little less complicated, despite the withdrawal of Sadio Mané. SNA asked Ali Fergani, Pathé Diallo and Pierre Lechantre for their predictions. Ali Fergani (former international…
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Football – Coaching: Mali finally opts for Eric Sekou Chelle
Eric Chelle, the 44-year-old former Malian international, has taken over from Mohamed Magassouba as head of the Eagles of Mali after the members of the commission set up to examine the candidates’ files had chosen the 72-year-old German Winfried Schäfer the day before. Eric Sekou Chelle will finally be the new coach of the Eagles…
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Mali: Winfried Shäfer’s appointment is imminent at the head of the Eagles
Winfried Shäfer, the 72-year-old German technician, should take over the reins of the Eagles of Mali, unless there is a new development in the recruitment process. According to Sport News Africa, he will succeed Mohamed Magassouba, who was dismissed after the elimination against Tunisia in the play-offs for the 2022 World Cup. The future coach…
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Cameroon: Rigobert Song succeeds Conceiçao as coach
It is now official, Rigobert Song is the new coach of the Cameroon national team. The former captain of the Indomitable Lions, double African champion (2000 and 2002), succeeds Antonio Conceiçao. The Ministry of Sports and Physical Education of Cameroon announced it through a statement Monday night. “On very high instructions from the President of…
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AFCON 2021: The revelation of African coaches
The last two AFCONs won by so-called local coaches and the recent results of several technicians trained in Africa are reshuffling the cards within African federations. More and more local technicians are being given a chance to coach their national team or a club. A number: 15. 15 of the 24 nations that took part…