Published Jun 25, 2026, 12:28 PM ET · Updated 5 months ago · 1 source
Senegal’s World Cup is hanging by a thread after comedy of errors on and off pitch
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A s the most successful president in Fédération Sénégalaise de Football (FSF) history, Augustin Senghor was looking forward to overseeing the Lions of Teranga’s World Cup campaign, after doing the same for those in Russia and Qatar. But the 60-year-old lawyer, who doubles as the mayor of Gorée island – the point from where large numbers of Africans were shipped to the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade – surprisingly lost his job in last August’s FSF elections. “After losing the elect