Tunisia coach Hervé Renard open to staying on with national team after a chaotic World Cup stint

KANSAS, USA: Tunisia coach Hervé Renard is open to the possibility of leading the African nation’s program beyond the end of the World Cup.
The 57-year-old Frenchman had been watching the tournament from Senegal when Tunisia abruptly fired their coach, Sabri Lamouchi, following a 5-1 loss to Sweden.
With the team in chaos, Renard was asked to lead the Eagles of Carthage the rest of the way, beginning with a 4-0 loss to Japan last week and concluding with Thursday night’s game against the Netherlands.
“I’m open to any discussion. I’m ready to, you know, listen to the project,” Renard said Wednesday, “but this is not what I’m here for.”
The losses to Sweden and Japan mean Tunisia already have been eliminated from the knockout stage.

It is the first nation since Greece at the 1994 tournament to lose each of their first two matches by at least four goals.
But even though Renard has only just joined the team, he still feels a sense of pride in competing on the world stage.
“We prepared for the match with Japan as good as possible,” he said. “I’m not used to trying to find excuses, and blame and shame the others.

I take these things to myself, and after Japan, I was a bit ashamed, and I was ashamed especially as regards to the Tunisians.
“Let’s concentrate on the next game and try to find something difficult to reach.”
The Netherlands and Japan each have four points in Group F, making the match between Tunisia and the Dutch an important one.
“The group is still solid. It’s still united,” Tunisia goalkeeper Aymen Dahmen said of his team.

“The only thing we need is to carry ourselves, carry our responsibilities. Everyone needs to be responsible.”
Renard has coached numerous teams across Africa, including Zambia, Angola, Ivory