According to an African football legend, Ivory Coast’s attempt to land Hervé Renard in the middle of the Africa Cup of Nations was a terrible idea.
It’s one of the incredible stories that the African Cup of Nations can sometimes offer us. After having noted the departure of Jean-Louis Gasset in the wake of the humiliation against Equatorial Guinea (4-0), Ivory Coast tried a slightly crazy gamble: that of being “loaned” by Hervé Renard by the French football federation, during the CAN.
The FFF refused, because it did not want the Blue coach to disperse less than a month from the Final Four of the Nations League, less than six months from the Olympic Games. And this vain attempt by the Ivorian Federation is now being singled out by Joseph-Antoine Bell, the former Cameroon goalkeeper, legend of African football.
“It was doomed to failure”
“ To be honest, this couldn’t have been a good decision, denounces the former OM player to RFI. First of all, you had to understand that it wouldn’t work. Then, it sends the signal for panic, and finally, it discredits the internal solution. » This is indeed not what arranged the affairs of Emerse Faé, propelled as interim coach in full competition before the round of 16 against Senegal this Monday evening.
The Cameroonian really does not understand how Ivory Coast could have had such a crazy idea. “ I don’t know who had the idea of taking this step and who encouraged the leaders to contact the FFF, because obviously, it was doomed to failure from the start. And above all, to praise this approach when we could have done it discreetly, received a refusal and remained discreet. But there… Really, it wasn’t a good idea“, he asserted.
