15.6.2026
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 under way 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.
“It’s a difficult loss. It’s painful,” Lamouchi told reporters after the Sweden defeat. “Starting the competition with this bad of a loss is indeed difficult.
“With world-class players that we have in the two Swedish forwards (Gyokeres and Isak), it’s something that you don’t recover from. We made way too many mistakes. We have our pride. We need to react. We need to give a better image.” Agency reports