The Africa Foot website reported that the Senegalese Football Federation was late in paying the salaries of first team coach Aliou Cisse and the rest of his assistant technical staff for 6 months.
This comes less than a month before the start of the 2023 African Cup of Nations, which Ivory Coast will host from January 13 to February 11.
The “Tiranga Lions” team, which plays in Group C alongside Cameroon, Guinea and Gambia, is trying to maintain its title, which it won last edition, for the first time in its history.
According to Africa Foot, Cisse – the former player for Paris Saint-Germain, Montpellier and Lille – did his best to prevent the news from leaking in order not to disrupt the atmosphere of the national team and the players who are preparing to defend their title in the 34th edition of the continental World Cup.
– “We must take an example from what Senegal is doing”
Senegal: the coach and his staff not paid for 6 months
— Mansour Loum (@Mansour_Loum) December 23, 2023
On November 7, 2022, Sisi (47 years old) signed an amendment to his monthly salary worth 30 thousand euros, net of taxes, and a signing bonus of about 18 thousand euros.
Cisse has been coaching the “Lions of Teranga” since 2015, and led them to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but they were eliminated in the group stage. In the African Nations Championship in 2019, he brought the team to its first final since 2002, losing it to Algeria with an unanswered goal scored by Baghdad Bounedjah, and in the Qatar World Cup, he succeeded in taking them to the eighth final of the world championship.
