Recent researches into sports team's performances has shown that across many sports and league competitions, a team that changes its coach after a decline in performance do in some ways rebound. Particularly, every club or national teams have strategies consisting of three choices; the length of the honeymoon period during which it will not consider sacking a new manager, the level of the performance trapdoor through which the manager gets the sack and the weight, the owners give to more recent games compared to earlier ones.
In the ongoing 2019 AFCON games, most that have participated have sacked their coaches following their results at the competition. For instance, Cameron became the latest country to sack their coach Clarence Seedrof and his coaching staff. South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Morocco and Guinea Bissau have also sacked their coaches. From the teams that bowed-out, all four top earning managers in this year's Africa cup of nations have already been knocked out of the tournament.
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