For Cisse, World Cup as coach much harder than as captain
AL KHOR, Qatar (AP) - As captain, Aliou Cisse led Senegal to victory over the defending World Cup 支持する／優勝者s and all the way to the 準々決勝, matching Africa's best run in its first 外見 at the tournament.
As coach, Cisse is finding the World Cup much, much tougher.
The 現在の African 支持する／優勝者s lost to England 3-0 on Sunday in a surprisingly lopsided result and were knocked out in the last 16.
Senegal had arrived with high hopes of at least matching that quarterfinal run of two １０年間s ago, even without 負傷させるd 今後 Sadio Mane, but was stopped by a ruthless 業績／成果 from England.
"We just weren´t as good as we should have been," Cisse said. "But I am not trying to make excuses. We have worked for years to be the best African 味方する but now we were playing a team in the 最高の，を越す five in the world and I think you saw the difference."
Cisse has been a pivotal 人物／姿／数字 for Senegal at every one of the nation's three 外見s at the World Cup - captain in 2002, coach in 2018 and this year.
Senegal's 長，率いる coach Aliou Cisse listens to the 国家のs 国家s 事前の to the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
That team in 2002 （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 defending 支持する／優勝者 フラン in the tournament's 開始 game in a result still seen as one of the World Cup's biggest upsets. Senegal went on to become only the second African team after Cameroon in 1990 to make the last eight.
But Cisse's return as coach of Senegal resulted in his first bitter experience of the World Cup in 2018, when the team was 除去するd in the group 行う／開催する／段階 on a fair play 支配する because it had 選ぶd up more yellow cards than Japan.
In Qatar, there was a pre-tournament belief that Africa´s 最高の，を越す-階級d team would be a dangerous 対抗者 for anyone considering the depth of the squad, and because it finally 実行するd its 約束 by winning its first African Cup of Nations 肩書を与える in February.
The 出来事/事件 that might have had the most 衝撃 on Senegal´s hopes （機の）カム two weeks before the World Cup started, when Mane slipped to the ground in a German league game with an 傷害 to his 権利 脚. It 支配するd Senegal´s かつてない 主要な scorer and the 運動ing 軍隊 behind its 最近の success out of the World Cup, 軍隊ing Cisse to change much of his game 計画（する） with hardly any time.
明確に 妨害するd by the absence of Mane´s attacking 脅し up 前線, and also without 重要な midfielders Idrissa Gueye (一時停止するd) and Cheikhou Kouyate (負傷させるd), Senegal´s challenge faded away against England.
Senegal 行方不明になるd Mane "大いに," Cisse said, but he also 認める his 弁護 struggled 不正に against England and gave an honest 査定／評価 of how far his team still had to go to compete with the best in the world.
"I wasn´t 推定する／予想するing to let in three goals," he said. "We´re at the World Cup here so you 直面する the best teams in the world. One of the big five at world level.
"You 支払う／賃金 for any mistake you m ake and any mistake we made tonight we paid for. Senegal has to keep working."
Senegal may also have to finally 直面する up to going to a World Cup without Cisse. It's never happened before.
But while Cisse has 延長するd his coaching 契約 to 2024, when Senegal will defend its African Cup 肩書を与える, he hasn´t committed to the 2026 World Cup. He said Sunday he wasn't sure how long he'd stay now.
"We´ve just lost a game and been knocked out the tournament," Cisse said, "and I need to draw the lessons and then we´ll see."
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Senegal's 長，率いる coach Aliou Cisse gives 指示／教授／教育s to his players during the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Senegal's 長，率いる coach Aliou Cisse and England's 長，率いる coach Gareth Southgate, 権利, stand by the touchline during the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
England's Harry Kane, left, 得点する／非難する／２０s his 味方する's 2nd goal during the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
England's Harry Kane, number 9, 得点する／非難する／２０s his 味方する's second goal during the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
England's Jack Grealish jumps for the ball with Senegal's Youssouf Sabali, left, during the World Cup 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 16 サッカー match between England and Senegal, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
