Sacked Senegal coach demands unpaid wages

Dismissed Senegal coach, Lamine Ndiaye, is claiming all unpaid wages from Senegal government after he was fired by the Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee currently running Senegalese football on Monday evening.

The under-fire coach whose contract was due to expire at the end of the month, was dismissed by the Normalisation Committee following the team's failure to reach the final phase of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations.  The Teranga Lions could only finish third in Group 6 following their 1-1 draw at home to The Gambia Scorpions.

After being showing an exit door even before his contract ends, coach Ndiaye now wants the Senegalese government to pay him all his dues before he could say good bye. This amount, Wal Fadjri Sports revealed, represents the sum of 13 Millions of Cfa, on the basis of 500 000 frank Cfa a month.

Shortly after his expected sacking, some officials, such as Sports Minister Bacar Dia, wanted to keep Ndiaye in his post - simply to avoid any legal wrangling since his contract was due to expire at the end of October. But it seems the Normalisation Committee were in no mood of keeping the coach after their shock exit which prompted intense violence in the former French colony.

Ndiaye, a former international, took charge of Senegal during January's Nations Cup in Ghana following the shock resignation of Henri Kasperczak midway through the tournament.  His early months in the job were anything but easy as some 30 Senegalese football federation members resigned in the wake of Senegal's disastrous Nations Cup campaign.