The Tunisia Football Federation has appointed former France international Alain Giresse as the new national team coach.
He will begin work on 1 January and has signed a contract until June 2020.
The 66-year-old replaces Faouzi Benzarti who was sacked in October four days after helping the team qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
Giresse has a lot of experience in Africa having coached Gabon, Senegal and Mali twice.
Under Giresse Mali were third at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
He left his second stint in charge of Mali in September 2017 and earlier this year he was linked with the Cameroon post that was taken by Clarence Seedorf.
In December 2017 he was linked with the vacant Benin national team manager's job.
In April 2018 he was one of 77 applicants for the vacant Cameroon national team job.
Alain Giresse was French footballer of the year in 1982, 1983 and 1987.
Nominally an attacking midfielder or central midfielder, Giresse was an intelligent playmaker who possessed fine agility and acceleration due to his short frame.