Comments on: It’s Official: Lemerre is Addicted to Couscous!

By: Moni

Moni — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:53:40 +0000

Fahd your right about the occupation !!
By the way FTF fucking sucksss

By: Fahd

Fahd — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:36:04 +0000

Rami,

As you know Le Grand Maghreb is still occupied by France from cultural and economic point of view. No surprises here!!!

Anyway today very good News SANTINI REFUSES TO COACH THE NATIONAL TEAM OF TUNISIA!!!! YOUR DREAM HAS COME TRUE YA RAMI!!!!!!1

As for the championship this weekend will be decisive!!! let’s hope for the best team to capture the title ( Ican’t say this enough))))

Ciao

We need benzarti to coach our National team ya rabbi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rachid

Rachid — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:22:06 +0000

Rami, it looks like your wish became true! No Santini! But, then what??? Not sure how these folks back home work? This ain’t no way to run a national team!!! They should be fired for blatant incompetence!

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:44:05 +0000

Welcome back Rachid, don’t feel too down about Etoile, these things happen to even the biggest clubs in the world. Both our teams will be back in the Champions League next year and hopefully we both fare much better. For now the CAF is not such a bad consolation. Especially since, as you noted, our big four are in there. I’m actually excited about that.

As for Lemerre, it’s just a gut feeling I have. Everyone is laughing and feeling bad for Moroccans on Tunisie foot and mosaique FM, saying that he’s gonna drive them crazy and they’re partially right but Lemerre does good things at the beginning when he takes over teams. He took over for France after the World Cup and won the Euro, took over for us before the African cup and we won it. So 2010 in Angola could be a good year for Morocco and they might just qualify for the World Cup too. Eventually the guy gets too strict in his selections and starts having run ins with the press that lead to a crappy mood around the federation and then the results will turn sour. He has the personality to whip an underachieving team into shape and then make everyone in the country hate his guts once they start doing badly. That’s just how I see it, obviously I could be wrong.

Whatever the case, it’s not the issue I’m most concerned with. I just heard on Cafe Sport (mosaique fm) that Santini is gonna be in Tunis on Tuesday to finalize the deal. I hope it’s not true…

By: Rachid

Rachid — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:50:23 +0000

Rami, I’m finally feeling a bit over l’Etoile’s unexpected loss. Good luck to our big four in the CAF.

When Morocco did badly in the very recent games in Ghana, their main conclusion was that they should rely on a Moroccan coach along with more local players. Now, their decision to hire Lemerre goes COMPLETELY against that theory. I’m very interested to see if he gets good results with them, although I highly doubt it. I don’t think he’s going to change his ways; he’s 66 years old, after all! As for our NT, things are really being done in a very lousy way by our FTF. Hopefully, they’ll stumble on the right person that meets their criteria (speak French and require little money!).