[Official] Five months before the World Cup, the coach will be replaced, and Tunisia will make an unexpected decision to be in the same group as Japan

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Tunisia, a team that qualified for the 2026 FIFA North American World Cup finals, has newly appointed Sabri Ramushi (55, France). It is only five months before the World Cup finals.

The Tunisian Football Association announced the signing of a two-and-a-half-year contract with Ramushi on its official channel on the 15th (Korea Standard Time). Earlier, Tunisia dismissed head coach Sami Travelsi and was looking for a new head coach last year, citing poor performance in the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup (group league elimination) and the Africa Cup of Nations (round of 16 elimination).

As a result, Tunisia's national soccer team will play in the finals after preparing for the World Cup for only five months under coach Ramushi. This is Tunisia's third consecutive and seventh career advance to the World Cup finals after the 2018 Russia Games and 2022 Qatar Games, and it is aiming to pass the first group stage ever.

Earlier, Tunisia under Tarvelsi was eliminated from the group stage with only one win, one draw and one loss in Group A, losing to Syria and drawing with Palestine in the FIFA Arab Cup in December last year. In the African Cup of Nations, he passed Group C (1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss) in the group stage, but was eliminated early after losing to Mali in the round of 16.

Ramushi is a new coach who played for France from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. As a player, he played for AS Monaco, Inter Milan, and Marseille. After retiring as a player, he led the Ivory Coast national team and Nottingham Forest.

Tunisia was in Group F with the winner of the Netherlands, Japan, and the UEFA Playoff (PO) Pass B (Ukraine, Poland, Albania, and Sweden) at the North-China World Cup in June. As he belongs to the same group as Japan, Japan is also paying attention to the news of the replacement of the Tunisian national team head coach. In addition to his career playing with Japanese legend Hidetoshi Nakata in Parma as a player, his history of leading Ivory Coast and beating Japan 2-1 during the 2014 Brazil World Cup is in the spotlight.

Tunisia, meanwhile, is one of the teams that is being discussed as South Korea's opponent in the warm-up match against the World Cup, led by head coach Hong Myung-bo. For South Korea, it is a virtual match against South Africa, and for Tunisia, it is a virtual match against Japan, and the pre-World Cup warm-up interests can match. Previously, the possibility of a warm-up match between Korea and Tunisia in June, just before the World Cup, was predicted.

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