In the Senegal national football team, Pape Thiaw’s interim period ended after the last day of the CAN 2025 qualifiers. Aliou Cissé’s successor should be known in a month. And the interim could well be the starter after a perfect record.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Babacar Fall
« I was an interim coach. There, it’s over, tonight “. After Senegal-Burundi (2-0) this Tuesday, November 19 during the last day of the playoffs of the CAN 2025, Pope Thiaw has formalized the end of his contract with the Senegal national football team. But maybe it’s just a goodbye for the one who replaced at short notice Aliou Cissé on the bench of the 2022 African champion Lions.
Pape Thiaw is today naturally part of the short list of Senegalese leaders for the position of head coach of the national A team. A list on which the names of Renard, returned to Saudi Arabia, and Patrick Vieira, recovered by the Genoa (Italy), were scratched.
Renard and Vieira unavailable
Thiaw should have as direct competitors, Habib Bèye, without a club at the moment, and especially Omar Daf, current coach of Amiens (Ligue 2).
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