{"id":143287,"date":"2024-01-25T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/25\/ivory-coast-fire-coach-despite-last-16-qualification\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T12:17:12","slug":"ivory-coast-fire-coach-despite-last-16-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/25\/ivory-coast-fire-coach-despite-last-16-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast Fire Coach&#8230; Despite Last 16 Qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jean-Louis Gasset<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Africa Cup of Nations host, Ivory Coast, fired coach Jean-Louis Gasset yesterday after their humiliating loss to Equatorial Guinea, despite qualifying for the last 16 stage of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The federation confirmed that Emerse Fa\u00e9, who played for Reading in the Premier League during his career, will take over for the rest of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-0 loss to the Equatorial Guinea on Monday was the heaviest defeat suffered by a Cup of Nations host and left the Ivorians third in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>A statement said the 70-year-old Gasset, who was hired in May 2022, was fired for \u201cinsufficient results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast knew their fate later yesterday when the last group matches were completed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Louis Gasset \u00a0 Africa Cup of Nations host, Ivory Coast, fired coach Jean-Louis Gasset yesterday after their humiliating loss to Equatorial Guinea, despite qualifying for the last 16 stage of the competition. 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