{"id":687331,"date":"2026-07-12T08:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:15:33","slug":"senegal-sack-manager-pape-thiaw-in-wake-of-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687331\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal sack manager Pape Thiaw in wake of World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Senegal Football Federation (FSF) said, external<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senegal have sacked manager Pape Thiaw in the aftermath of the country&#8217;s exit at the last-32 stage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}