PARIS (FRANCE) (ITALPRESS) – No step back. Gabonese Sports Minister Simplice-Desiré Mamboula, following the elimination from the Africa Cup of Nations, confirmed “the dissolution of the technical staff, the suspension of the national team until further notice, and the exclusion of players Bruno Ecuele Manga and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.” A series of drastic measures due to the players’ “shameful performance” in Morocco.
Moreover, already on December 28, after the defeat against Mozambique, Gabon President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had spoken of a “lack of method and waste of resources” and a “worrying erosion of patriotic feeling in the management of sport.” On X, Aubameyang, who had been sent back to Marseille even before the last match, made his voice heard: “I think the team’s problems go much deeper than the small person that I am.”
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