Tunisia manager joins excluisve club of coaches sa...
Tunisia manager Sabri Lamouchi won't be feeling too good after being sacked midway through a World Cup, but he's not the first coach to suffer that fate.
As if the 2026 World Cup hasn't already delivered enough shocks, Day 5 of the tournament brought the first managerial sacking after just a single game played.
Tunisia boss Sabri Lamouchi was dismissed after his side suffered a woeful 5-1 defeat to Sweden in the Group F opener and Herve Renard has stepped in to fill the void .
It means Lamouchi, who was appointed in January, spent just five games in charge of Tunisia (of which he lost three times).
While that may seem eye-opening, a head coach being dismissed during a World Cup is not a totally novel occurrence -- at the 1998 World Cup, it…
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