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Sénégal : Pape Thiaw limogé après l’élimination au Mondial 2026
La Fédération sénégalaise de football (FSF) a décidé de mettre fin à la mission de Pape Bouna Thiaw à la tête des Lions de la Teranga. Cette décision intervient après l’élimination du Sénégal en seizièmes de finale de la Coupe du monde 2026. newsindata.com
Réuni en Comité exécutif, la FSF a annoncé avoir analysé le parcours de la sélection durant le tournoi ainsi que les différents rapports liés à cette participation. Après cette évaluation, l’instance a choisi d’engager une procédure pour mettre un terme aux fonctions du sélectionneur et de son staff technique.
La Fédération estime qu’un changement est nécessaire pour préparer l’avenir du football sénégalais et relancer les équipes nationales.
La FSF prépare une nouvelle organisation
Le départ de Pape Thiaw s’accompagne d’une volonté de revoir l’organisation des sélections nationales. Le président de la Fédération a été chargé de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour mettre en place cette nouvelle orientation.
Les raisons de cette décision seront expliquées lors d’une conférence de presse prévue lundi au stade Léopold-Sédar-Senghor. Le président de la FSF reviendra sur le bilan du Sénégal au Mondial 2026 et sur les prochaines étapes.
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DIRECT - Coupe du monde 2026: l'Argentine, rescapée en 8es, s'attaque à la surprise Suisse
L'Argentine traverse le Mondial sur un fil, sauvée jusqu'ici par son funambule Lionel Messi et un mental inaltérable, deux piliers auxquels s'attaque une équipe de Suisse peu habituée à de tels sommets, samedi soir (dans la nuit du dimanche 01H00 TU) en quart de finale à Kansas City. Sur le papier, un océan sépare les champions du monde en titre, et une équipe qui n'avait plus connu pareille fête depuis 72 ans en Coupe du monde. Notre direct à suivre.
England, Argentina set up World Cup showdown after quarterfinal wins
England and Argentina set up a blockbuster World Cup semi-final showdown on Saturday after battling past Norway and Switzerland to book their passage to the last four.
Nervy England
In sweltering Miami, two goals from Jude Bellingham gave England a nervy 2-1 extra-time victory over Norway to send the Three Lions into the semi-finals for only the fourth time in history.
Defending champions Argentina later sealed their place in the last four after a nail-biting 3-1 win over 10-man Switzerland at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium.
Julian Alvarez and Lautaro Martinez scored in extra time for Argentina, who had been on the ropes after a second-half equaliser from Switzerland’s Dan Ndoye cancelled out Alexis Mac Allister’s early opener for the holders.
The two results mean that England and Argentina will renew one of the World Cup’s most iconic rivalries when they face each other in the semi-finals in Atlanta on Wednesday.
The winner of that game will take on the victor of France’s semi-final with Spain, who meet in Texas on Tuesday, in the final on July 19.
Angry Tuchel
Furious England manager Thomas Tuchel said his team would need to make a drastic improvement if they were to have any chance of progressing beyond the semi-finals.
In intense Florida heat and humidity, a shaky England fell behind on 36 minutes through Andreas Schjelderup’s rasping shot from the left.
But England got a huge slice of luck in first-half stoppage time when Bellingham equalised after an attack that began when a goal kick from Norway goalkeeper Orjan Nyland appeared to hit an overhead camera cable.
Norway’s players protested to no avail and the goal stood. The Norwegians also had a goal controversially disallowed before Bellingham then bagged England’s winner in extra-time.
“We made life very, very difficult for ourselves today,” Tuchel said afterwards.
“The result is fantastic. The last four is amazing, but not happy with the performance… we were very lucky today.”
While FIFA later issued a statement saying there was “no evidence” the ball had hit the cable before England’s first goal, Norway coach Stale Solbakken was adamant.
“That was unlucky for for us,” Solbakken said. “The ball fell straight down from the sky, so it changed its direction. But we can’t do anything about that. I don’t think we will play the game again. So, that’s that’s how it is.”
Argentina dig deep
In Kansas City, Argentina were taken to extra time for the second time this tournament before battling to a 3-1 win over Switzerland.
The world champions took the lead after just 10 minutes, with Lionel Messi’s outswinging corner finding the head of Mac Allister.
The Liverpool midfielder leapt up behind Switzerland defender Manuel Akanji and steered his header past Switzerland goalkeeper Gregor Kobel.
Yet Switzerland rallied after that early setback, with their physicality and well-organised defence frustrating the Argentina attack.
As the match wore on, Switzerland grew in confidence and enjoyed their best period of pressure in the second half against increasingly weary-looking opponents.
On 67 minutes the Swiss breakthrough came.
Ndoye worked a deft one-two with Ricardo Rodriguez down the left and then shot past Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez to make it 1-1.
But with Argentina rocking the momentum swung back in the South Americans’ favour when Swiss forward Breel Embolo was shown his second yellow card and sent off in tears after a VAR review.
Switzerland bravely held out to take the match to extra-time, and looked to be poised to take the game to penalty shoot-outs.
Alvarez – ‘You have to know how to suffer’
But Alvarez curled a magnificent screamer into the top corner in the 112th minute to break the deadlock, and then in the dying moments Martinez finished a counter-attack to complete the win.
“Obviously you have to suffer, you have to know how to suffer,” said Alvarez after scoring his first goal of the tournament. “That’s how the matches are playing out right now.”
Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni admitted his team had had “many many difficulties”.
He added: “Sometimes we couldn’t find the solutions, but today we had luck on our side because one of their players was sent off.”
Drug watchdog defends SA rugby
The latest positive doping test involving a South African rugby player should not be viewed as evidence of a systemic problem in the game, according to SA Institute for Drug-Free Sport CEO Khalid Galan.
The comments follow news that Junior Boks prop Kai Pratt returned an adverse analytical finding for an anabolic steroid after being tested in April. The 18-year-old has requested that his B sample also be tested.
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Galant rejected suggestions that South African rugby has a widespread doping culture.
“Systemic assumes that, as was the case with Russian sport, there is alleged involvement of either the government or a governing body, such as SA Rugby, which of course insinuates complicity,” he told Rapport. “However, this is not the case in South Africa. The statistics prove it.”
Galant said the number of positive cases reflected the strength of Saids’ testing programme rather than a failure of the system.
“We don’t like to catch an athlete,” he said. “It’s not like we’re cracking the champagne every time someone tests positive. As a regulator, we’re simply carrying out a task that’s been assigned to us, and this is not a witch hunt at all.
“The high number of positive cases we’re dealing with is simply because of the robust testing programme that we’re running.”
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Galant added that South Africa is one of the few countries to conduct drug testing at school level, helping identify problems early while also discouraging doping.
“We carry out tests and identify specific issues,” he said. “However, the testing also serves as a deterrent. To use Craven Week as an example: The number of players who test positive annually at the tournament has decreased significantly since 2010.”
MORE: Sixfold drop in SA rugby drug testing
Responding to criticism over a reduction in testing in recent years, Galant said financial constraints, rather than any conspiracy, were to blame.
“We are receiving limited funding from the government, while sending samples to laboratories in places like Barcelona, Belgium and Qatar for analysis is becoming increasingly expensive,” he said.
“The European media, especially those in Britain and France, have started making such allegations mainly because the Boks have won back-to-back World Cup titles.”
Photo: Steve Haag/Gallo Images
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Bok debuts beckon in Dragons duel
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus is set to hand Test debuts to several promising youngsters and seasoned campaigners against Wales in Durban next Saturday.
Rapport understands that flyhalf Vusi Moyo and winger Jaco Williams, both instrumental in the Junior Springboks’ Junior World Championship triumph last year, are among those in line for their first caps at Kings Park.
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Moyo made his senior Bok bow in the non-cap season opener against the Barbarians on 20 June, while Williams starred for South Africa A in a 40-0 rout of Zimbabwe in the curtain-raiser at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
Lock Ruben van Heerden (28) and tighthead prop Carlü Sadie (29) are also reportedly in line to face the Welsh Dragons, having both spent time in the Bok camp and featured against the Sables and Baa-Baas, respectively.
Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images
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