- Tunisia hired flamboyant coach Hervé Renard after sacking Sabri Lamouchi following a 5-1 loss to Sweden — Renard has only four days before Tunisia faces Japan, and the group campaign could be over within 10 days.
- This will be Renard’s third straight men’s World Cup with a third different team (he also coached France’s women in 2023) — yet he’s never managed to get a side out of the group stage.
- Renard is a well-traveled, charismatic figure — suntanned, often in an open-necked white shirt — famous for big upsets (Saudi Arabia’s 2-1 win over Argentina in 2022) and two Africa Cup of Nations titles (Zambia 2012, Ivory Coast 2015).
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