Head coach of the Madagascar national football team, Nicholas Dupuis has officially left his job less than three weeks to the country’s 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ghana.
On May 25, Ghana’s leading sports website ghanasportspage.com reported that Dupuis will quit his job effective June 1, 2023, and the former French International has done just that following woeful failures in the ongoing AFCON 2023 qualifiers.
The 55-year old French tactician was appointed head coach of the Madagascar national team in March 2017, and qualified the nation to their first ever Africa Cup of Nations tournament in October 2018. He led Madagascar to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt where they defiled all odds to reach the quarter finals of the tournament.
He was in 2022 given another mandate to qualify Madagascar to the 2023 AFCON in Ivory Coast, but due to the might of Ghana, Angola and Central African Republic in the Group E as opponents, the Barea have woefully failed to make impact and have already been eliminated after losing three of their last four matches in the Group and drawing just one.
Dupuis confirmed his decision to resign to GSPI Media earlier. “I will no longer be the coach from June 1. I decided to quit and move on”, Dupuis confirmed exclusively to ghanasportspage.com.
According to Dupuis, his exit was on a mutual agreement with the Malagasy Football Federation.
“We have decided by mutual agreement with the MFF to stop the contract at the end of May“, he confirmed.
A new coach is set to take over the Berea head coach job to play the remaining two matches of the ongoing AFCON qualifiers.
