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Fahd and Rachid, definitely agree with both of you on this. Not only did he not rely on Chermiti like he should have in the second match, he played Chikhaoui out of position for the entire tournament. The guy just doesn’t think about offense. All he focuses on is defensive stability. Ironically, it causes us to concede goals because we give too much possession away…

First I would like to say that Tunisia has a lot of talented players. No doubt about that. What they miss is the confidence of being better than the so called professional European based star players. This means that they need to get rid of their complex and prepare their matches diffrently.

Unfortunately coach lemerrde was never able to do that as he alway made the opponent better and bigger than the tunisian players. His defensive game plan kills the talen of players such as Chikhaoui chermiti and other offensive players.

Tunisian Football federation need to instal a national coach who will implement an offensive game plan on the pitch. WE HAVE THE PLAYERS FOR IT.

I do not consider the succes the Tunisian team had in 2004 as his. Any Tunisian traine with the EXACT resources as Lemerde had, would have done it., this I am sure of.

Tunisia has a very strong leaugue with good players and good trainers let’s build a foundation that can support future national succes on an international level.

inshallah the future is better.

regards and thanks for the Nice BLOG

NL. Bassem, if you check back in the archives you can find the coverage of the U17 team. That was one of the highlights of my summer. I fell in love with that team and can’t wait to see how these youngsters develop (especially Nour Hadhria, Bilel Ifa, Youssef Msekni, Mossaeb Sassi, Rafik Dkhil, Khaled Ayari etc. actually everyone hehe). They all have bright futures, not to mention the senior squad that is progressing nicely. It’s a beautiful time to be a fan of our country’s number one sport! Do stay tuned and keep sharing, I love hearing different and even opposing opinions. It’s what this is all about!

Rami you will writght more and more because the developments aint over yet. A lot to come and a lot to wright, keep up the good job and keep us informed. The latest news around the Netherlands is that Ajax Amsterdam is realy interessted in Chikoui and they know they are not the only one’s that are interessted. If i know more i will post you!

Last thing i want to say is, Thanks Coach’s even if you didn’t agree a lot of times but you are a great duo! Lemmre even when you go we will always remeber you as the best coach Tunisia ever had!

Concerning our national team, I think that the players gave it all they had and I can’t be more satisfied by their performance. Meanwhile, I don’t think that Lemerre has anything to add to this team. This result as a whole could be seen as satisfactory if he only had a few months to prepare the team. However, given that he’s been on this task for almost 6 years, I would say enough is enough.

Thank you and I hope that this won’t be the end of it.