Tunisia sack Sabri Lamouchi one game into World Cup after ⁠5-1 defeat by Sweden

Tunisia sacked their head coach, Sabri Lamouchi, on Monday after ⁠a 5-1 defeat by Sweden in their first World Cup game. The Tunisian ⁠football federation ⁠announced ​his dismissal on its Instagram account.

“An agreement has been officially reached ⁠to dismiss coach Sabri Lamouchi,” the statement said. “Plans are underway ‌to appoint ‌Mondher Kebaier as the national team ‌coach [on an interim basis].”

Tunisia will face Japan on Saturday in the same stadium in Guadalupe where they lost to Sweden before finishing ​their group games against the Netherlands in Kansas City.

Lamouchi, 54, was hired in January and was ⁠already under fire after a 5-0 defeat by ​Belgium in a ​pre-tournament friendly ​in Brussels.

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