Aubameyang returns as Gabon lifts team’s suspension after AFCON exit

Star players Aubameyang and Manga are backmost but the shot relation volition proceed its hunt for a caller caput coach.

Gabon’s ‌football relation has announced the suspension of authorities measures ‍imposed connected the ‍national squad and the lifting of those against players Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bruno Ecuele ‌Manga, pursuing their aboriginal exit from the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025.

Both players were removed from the Gabon team; the coaching staff, including caput manager Thierry Mouyouma, was fired; and the full squad was suspended by Gabon’s authorities successful an announcement made connected nationalist tv aft Gabon failed to triumph a crippled astatine the tourney successful Morocco.

The shot federation said the “government measures suspending the nationalist team” and excluding the 2 players were lifted connected Monday. Mouyouma and his coaching unit remained fired.

“The authorities measures suspending the nationalist squad person been lifted, arsenic good ‌as the exclusion of players Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Bruno Ecuele ‌Manga pursuing the unsatisfactory results ⁠of the nationalist squad astatine the Africa Cup of Nations,” it said successful a statement.

“The Minister of Sports Paul Ulrich Kessany highlighted the urgency of upcoming deadlines, notably the ‍draw for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations,” it added.

Gabon ⁠lost their Group F games against Cameroon, ​Mozambique and rubric holders Ivory Coast.

The suspension could person led to the suspension of the shot association, arsenic satellite football’s governing assemblage FIFA takes ​a hard stance against ‌government interference successful the moving of shot associations.