{"id":44783,"date":"2026-07-12T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/senegal-sack-manager-pape-thiaw-in-wake-of-world-cup-exit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:55:19","slug":"senegal-sack-manager-pape-thiaw-in-wake-of-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/senegal-sack-manager-pape-thiaw-in-wake-of-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal sack manager Pape Thiaw in wake of World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Senegal have sacked manager Pape Thiaw in the aftermath of the country&#8217;s exit at the last-32 stage of the 2026 World Cup.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Teranga Lions, who had been managed by Thiaw since December 2024, were beaten by France and Norway in their opening two group games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They thrashed Iraq 5-0 to qualify for the knockout stages by taking the final spot of the best-placed teams to finish third in their group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senegal led Belgium 2-0 in their last-32 tie but conceded two late goals and a penalty in extra time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/videos\/cvg7kdx1vpno\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">as they were dramatically beaten 3-2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the exit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqj18d7q2vwo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">midfielder Pape Gueye said<\/a> he would be &#8220;taking a break&#8221; from playing for Senegal while the current management remained in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fsfoot.sn\/actualites\/cessation-des-fonctions-du-selectionneur-national-pape-thiaw\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">The Senegal Football Federation (FSF) said<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> that &#8220;after a thorough evaluation of the sporting results and prospects of the national team&#8221; it had dismissed Thiaw &#8220;in the best interests of Senegalese football&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cq81l29lj2zo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal have sacked manager Pape Thiaw in the aftermath of the country&#8217;s exit at the last-32 stage of the 2026 World Cup. The Teranga Lions, who had been managed by Thiaw since December 2024, were beaten by France and Norway in their opening two group games. They thrashed Iraq 5-0 to qualify for the knockout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44785,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions\/44785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}