He had been in the hot seat for a long time. Finally Aliou Cissé leaves the bench of the Senegal national team after 114 months. Since the elimination of Senegal in the 1/8 final of CAN 2023, Aliou Cissé’s chair has not stopped wobbling. The sword of Damocles that has hung over her head ever since has finally won her.
Dsports.sn in one of its publications dated September 20 announced the color concerning the attitude of the Ministry of Sports which had ignored the request for extension transmitted by the Senegalese Football Federation which wished to continue the idyll with the technician for at least least a year.
Finally, in a correspondence addressed to the FSF dated September 30, Khady Diène Gaye expressed her disagreement with the idea of extending Aliou Cissé. Returning from Saudi Arabia where he attended the CAF Super Cup final, Augustin Senghor found on his table the government decision relating to the dismissal of the national coach which has been in place since March 2015.
So, before convening his Emergency Committee, the President of the FSF first deemed it necessary to inform the person concerned himself. He called Aliou Cissé who was in Casamance. After reporting to him on the decision, the now former Lions coach said he took it “with philosophy, haughtiness and grandeur”. He informed his interlocutor that Senegal’s interest is above everyone else and that if the authorities have decided this way, it is because they have their reason. However, the members of the Emergency Committee who met yesterday afternoon at the FSF headquarters examined the government decision from top to bottom. And, they took note of the resolution and decided to thank Aliou Cissé.
Even though they agreed that the timing was not good but their hands are also tied. For this, the press conference for the publication of the list of players for the double confrontation with Malawi is canceled and it is through the press that public opinion will be informed of the players who will begin the training from October 7 at the Radisson Diamniadio.
The news certainly fell like a sledgehammer on the heads of the federals but they gave Augustin Senghor and the National Technical Director, Mayacine Mar, the mandate to constitute the interim technical staff who will lead the Lions for the matches of 11 and 15 October against Malawi, counting for the 3rd and 4th of the CAN, Morocco 2025 qualifiers.
In any case, until the moment we put this information online, the transport tickets for Aliou Cissé’s usual collaborators are being issued for departure towards Dakar. However, the feds also informed that the State of Senegal does not owe any salary arrears to members of the technical staff who recently returned to their funds.
Source : DSPORTS.SN
