Press reports revealed that the Tunisian Football Federation is moving toward making an urgent technical change at the head of the national team’s technical staff, following the heavy defeat that the “Carthage Eagles” suffered against the Swedish team with a score of 5-1 in the opening of their campaign in the 2026 World Cup.
According to informed sources, the Tunisian Federation officials initially decided their position a few hours after the end of the match, as coach Sabri Lamouchi is close to leaving his position, becoming a strong candidate. To be the first coach to lose his job during the current edition of the World Cup.
These developments came after the disappointing performance presented by the Tunisian team against Sweden, in a match that witnessed a clear superiority for the European team, which scored five goals through Yassine Ayari, Alexander Isak, Victor Guikeris, and Matthias Svenberg, so that the Tunisian team finds itself in last place in Group F since the first round.
The “Eagles of Carthage” faces a difficult task during the next two rounds, as They will be required to achieve positive results against Japan and then the Netherlands to maintain their hopes of competing for one of the qualification tickets to the next round.
Lamouchi took over the leadership of the Tunisian national team last January, succeeding coach Sami Trabelsi, but his results did not meet the level of expectations, after he achieved only one victory in the five matches he played at the head of the coaching staff.
After the end of the confrontation, the French coach of Tunisian origins did not hide his disappointment with the result, admitting The situation was difficult after the faltering start, and he stressed that the many mistakes committed by his team directly contributed to the loss to a team that included high-caliber strikers such as Isaac and Jeukeris.
He added that the team was required to show a strong reaction during the upcoming matches, and restore its true image in front of the fans, stressing the need to learn from the mistakes of the first match and work to correct them quickly.
This scenario brings to mind what happened to the Tunisian team in the 1998 World Cup, when the federation decided to The dismissal of Polish coach Henrik Kasperczak before the end of the group stage following two successive losses to England and Colombia.
This step is also reminiscent of what happened during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, when the Côte d'Ivoire national team sacked its coach Jean-Louis Gasset during the tournament, before his assistant Emers Faye succeeded in leading the team towards winning the continental title in one of the most prominent comeback stories in the history of the competition.
The coming hours became decisive in determining Sabri's future. Lamouchi, amid widespread anticipation of the Tunisian Federation’s decision regarding the identity of the coach who may take over the leadership of the national team for the remainder of its journey in the 2026 World Cup.