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Sfaxien bank on World Cup winner Clausen
- Updated: December 20, 2016
World Cup winner Nestor Clausen of Argentina will coach Tunisian club CS Sfaxien when they seek a record-extending fourth CAF Confederation Cup title next season. The draws for the 2017 preliminary and first qualifying rounds in the second-tier African club competition are due to be made in Cairo Wednesday, according to several national football association officials.
Now 54, former defender Clausen was an unused substitute when a Diego Maradona-inspired Argentina edged West Germany 3-2 in a thrilling 1986 World Cup final in Mexico City. His coaching career began in 1999 and spans Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Switzerland, Oman, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
The Mediterranean industrial city of Sfax is his first stop in Africa and the Argentine will discover that expectations among Sfaxien officials and supporters are extremely high. Sfaxien came agonisingly close to winning the 2007 CAF Champions League, conceding a stoppage-time goal at home to lose the two-leg final against mighty Al Ahly of Egypt.
They fared better in lower-tier African club competitions, winning the now defunct CAF Cup for national league runners-up in 1998. Apart from winning the Confederation Cup in 2007, 2008 and 2013, they also finished runners-up in 2010 to FUS Rabat of …
