AFCON hosts Ivory Coast sack coach Gasset
Ivory Coast's French coach Jean-Louis Gasset shouts instructions to his players from the touchline during the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) 2024 group A football match between Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast at the Alassane Ouattara Olympic Stadium in Ebimpe, Abidjan on January 22, 2024. Africa Cup of Nations hosts Ivory Coast have sacked coach Jean-Louis Gasset midway through the tournament, the country's football federation (FIF) announced on January 24, 2024. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP)
Africa Cup of Nations hosts Ivory Coast have
sacked coach Jean-Louis Gasset midway through the tournament, the country's
football federation (FIF) announced on Wednesday.
"The contracts of coach Jean-Louis Gasset and
his assistant Ghislain Printant are terminated due to insufficient
results," the FIF said in a statement.
The Ivorians suffered an embarrassing 4-0
thrashing by Equatorial Guinea in their last Group A game on Monday.
The two-time champions need results to go in their
favour in Wednesday's final group matches to reach the knock-out phase as one
of the four best third-placed teams.
Ivory Coast have only failed to get out of the
group phase once in the previous nine editions of the tournament, in 2017.
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