"It's hard to do better next time," says the boss of Madagascar

The islanders of the Indian Ocean have seen their dream come to an end with Thursday's 3-0 defeat against Tunisia, a country ranked 83rd above their ranks in the world.

"I am very proud of what players have been doing since the beginning of the tournament and I take my hat off," said Dupuis, whose contract expired at the end of the competition in Egypt.

"Today, the pace was too high.As for my future, it does not matter.I am someone of faithful and my priority is in Madagascar."

Dupuis took up his duties as Madagascar coach in 2017 and transformed a nation that was once ranked 190th and had to go through a preliminary round just to take part in qualifying for this tournament, in the surprise package of this year's final. .

"I do not know if Madagascar's priority is to keep me," said Dupuis. It will be difficult to do better next time. There is a lot of work to do in Madagascar. We must use what we have done to show that the work is paying off.

"We have to keep working, otherwise it could be an ephemeral thing, we have to go back to work."

"I have no regrets," he added. "We were against a very good camp."