18th October, 2013
Former Senegal national team coach Bruno Metsu, who died of cancer on 15 October in France, aged 59, is to be buried in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on Monday.
His family said on Friday that the body of Metsu, who changed his name to Bruno Abdou Karim Metsu when he became a Muslim, is expected to arrive in Dakar on Sunday.
His remains would be buried at a Muslim cemetery the following day.
The people of Senegal, led by President Macky Sall, have been paying tribute to the Frenchman, under whose tutelage Senegal reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea.
Senegal also reached the final of the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali.
Only two other African nations, Ghana and Cameroon, have ever reach the last eight of the FIFA World Cup.
Metsu was married to a Senegalese woman with whom he had three children.