Three weeks after the final whistle of CAN-2019, concluded on the coronation of Algeria, the traditional waltz of the breeders is in full swing. No less than ten breeders have left their posts, including some big names on the continent. France 24 offers a small membership review.
• Florent Ibenge (DR Congo)
After four years at the head of the Leopards, Florent Ibenge ended up throwing in the towel. Resigned, the coach with the double cap - he also coaches the AS Vita Club - paid the price of a deleterious atmosphere within the selection, coupled with results at half mast.
Qualified despite a very chaotic hen course, DR Congo left Egypt in the knockout stages, beaten by a surprising Madagascar. Sufficient to forget the beautiful bronze medal of 2015 and the shifts a little less convincing of the 2017 edition. He finally left his post on August 7, 2019.
• Javier Aguirre (Egypt)
His future will not be in doubt. In the wake of the historic elimination of Egypt in the round of 16 of the CAN-2019, the Mexican coach Javier Aguirre was ousted, as all his technical staff.
A broomstick that also affected several members of a federation that has suffered in this summer 2019, one of the worst sports camouflets in its history.
• Hervé Renard (Morocco)
The emblematic Hervé Renard, double-champion of Africa with Zambia (2012) then Côte d'Ivoire (2015), will not have resisted the premature elimination of Morocco, also swept in the 8th finals of the 2019 African Cup of Nations.
Two days after the coronation of Algeria, he announced that he was leaving his post, an "inescapable decision made well before CAN-2019", explained the technician. He was quick to rebound, since he has since been named head of Saudi Arabia.
• Clarence Seedorf (Cameroon)
On the Cameroon side, it was between the semi-finals and the final that we decided to clean up. Legend of football in the Netherlands, coach Clarence Seedorf was sacked by the federation, carrying in his luggage his deputy Patrick Kluivert.
Holding the title in Egypt, the Indomitable Lions had also left the competition at the stage of the 8th, defeated by a Nigeria yet so far very far from being exciting. If Seedorf has not yet found a new challenge, Kluivert has been entrusted with the leadership of Masia, FC Barcelona's prestigious training center.
• Sébastien Desabre (Uganda)
Another frustrated French coach in the round of 16, Sebastien Desabre also left his bench, not without being satisfied - rightly - with the work done at the head of Uganda.
Party "by mutual agreement" with the federation in the course of July, he immediately rebounded when he was entrusted with the fate of Pyramids FC. A new rich Egyptian football with great national ambitions but also continental.
• Stuart Baxter (South Africa)
The second-to-last resignation is Scottish Stuart Baxter. Not really in the spirit of sanctity in the country despite a miraculous qualification for the quarter-finals of CAN-2019, he dropped the flag in early August.
He remains on a more than mitigated balance at the head of Bafana Bafana, with three defeats for two victories during the great continental raid.
• Emmanuel Amuneke (Tanzania)
That of Emmanuel Amuneke at the head of Tanzania will not have been more convincing. The Nigerian had managed to take his team to the finals of the African Cup, a first for 39 years. But the unconvincing benefits of Taifa Stars in Egypt have finally got the better of his scalp.
With three losses in pools and a general record of two wins, two draws and six defeats since taking office, he saw his contract ended by the national authorities in July.
• Paul Put (Guinea)
The African summer was also fatal to Paul Put's ambitions. Victim like many others of the 8th finals, the Belgian globe-trotter was removed from his position by the president of the Guinean Federation, Mamadou Antonio Souaré.
In question, the "lack of results", but also the "elimination following a climate of distrust created (sic) and maintained by the coach between the players and the technical staff", was learned then in the statement issued by the leader, in mid-July. Atmosphere.
• Sunday Chidzambwa (Zimbabwe)
Less visible than most of the other breeders mentioned above, Sunday Chidzambwa has also paid for CAN-2019. Appointed head of Zimbabwe in 2017, he did the minimum service by qualifying the Warriors for the finals. But his career in Egypt has not really pleaded in his favor.
A point in three games, but especially a very heavy 4-0 cashed against the DR Congo. A correction that has probably sealed his fate, since it constitutes to this day the worst Zimbabwean setback in the history of the African Cup. Sufficient in any case for the federation to accept his letter of resignation with immediate effect, at the end of July.