Former Kaizer Chiefs head coach Nasreddine Nabi is among the leading candidates to succeed Sami Trabelsi to lead the Tunisia senior national team who are 2026 FIFA World Cup bound.
Nabi has been without a club since parting ways with Chiefs back in September, where during his tenure, ended the club’s decade-long trophy drought with the Nedbank Cup triumph over fierce rivals Orlando Pirates.
It brought the club back into CAF inter-club competitions this season and viewed as a potential turning point for the rebuild of Amakhosi, where his former technical staff Khalid Ben Youssef, Cedric Kaze, Ilyez Mzoughi and Majdi Safi still remain.
Nabi’s exit was confirmed as a mutual agreement and while there’s been links to several clubs in the Gulf and North Africa, the lure of the Carthage Eagles could be too good to refuse.
Trabelsi was fired after their last-16 exit at the hands of Mali last week, which ended his 18-game tenure that saw the North Africans coast through the World Cup qualifiers unbeaten, with nine wins and one draw, scoring 22 goals and conceding none in the 10 games played.
The Tunisian Football Federation, however, viewed the AFCON exit as unacceptable and pulled the plug and are now set to hire their sixth head coach in the past four years, in a major period of instability.
RS Berkane’s Mouin Chaâbani, who won the Botola Pro and CAF Confederation Cup, as well as two Champions League titles with Esperance Sportive de Tunis was mooted as one of the major candidates.
Maher Kanzari, currently at Taraji, Nabil Kouki and Khaled Ben Yahia have also been discussed by the FA, but Nabi has been made one of the priority candidates for the job.
It remains to be seen whether the two parties will agree terms for the role, which is considered of one the most sought-after jobs on the continent, with Tunisia heading to North America in June for the Mundial.
Story by Lorenz Kohler (@Lorenz_KO).
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