{{The burial of Bruno Metsu took place in Senegal on Monday, with President Macky Sall among a host of people who paid tribute to the Frenchman.}} <\/p>\n
Former Senegal national team coach Metsu died from cancer aged just 59 and was laid to rest in Dakar.<\/p>\n
Sall described the Frenchman Metsu, who led Senegal to the 2002 World Cup quarter-finals, as “an example of humanity and virtue”.<\/p>\n
He also called him a “hero among Senegalese heroes”.<\/p>\n
“In this time of grief and sorrow for our country, I would like to express the ineffable compassion of the Senegalese nation,” Sall said.<\/p>\n
Leeds United forward El Hadji Diouf and former Bolton Wanderers midfielder Khalilou Fadiga were among a number of past and present footballers at the ceremony at a hospital in the capital.<\/p>\n
Wellwishers waved posters of the coach and wore T-shirts bearing the message “Thank you Metsu” outside the funeral, attended by his widow Viviane Dieye Metsu (pictured )and his children, as well as leading Senegalese politicians.<\/p>\n
“Today, a true Lion went to sleep,” the president said, in a reference to Senegal’s nickname, the Lions of Teranga.<\/p>\n
Metsu’s coffin was draped in the Senegalese flag and the green flag of Islam, a religion to which the coach converted several years ago, taking the name Abdou Karim Metsu.<\/p>\n
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