AFCON: Hosts Ivory Coast sack national team coach Jean-Louis Gasset

Jean-Louis Gasset has been sacked as coach of hosts Ivory Coast two days after their 4-0 defeat against Equatorial Guinea in the ongoing Africa Cup of all Nations tournament.

It was the heaviest home defeat in Ivory Coast history and they are the first AFCON host to lose two group games since they did so in 1984.

The Elephants still carry faint hopes of progressing to the last 16 as one of the best third-placed teams.

If they qualified, they will be led by Emerse Fae, one of Gasset’s coaches, on an interim basis.

The country’s football federation said it had “terminated the contracts” of 70-year-old Gasset and his assistant Ghislain Printant “due to insufficient results”.