Aliou Cissé, who captained and coached Senegal, has been roped in by world football controlling body, FIFA.

FIFA has unveiled the Technical Study Group (TSG) that will provide cutting-edge analysis of all matches across the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup, while increasing and developing the understanding of the game worldwide.

Led by FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsène Wenger, the TSG line-up features Aliou Cissé (Senegal), Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina), Tobin Heath (USA), Jürgen Klinsmann (Germany), Roberto Martínez (Spain), Gilberto Silva (Brazil) and Pascal Zuberbühler (Switzerland).

“The role of the FIFA TSG – an expert panel comprising national-team coaches and former players – is to observe matches, pinpoint tactical trends and innovations, and illustrate them using insights and data provided by the FIFA Football Performance Insights team,” stated FIFA.

“The trends that it identifies are published on the FIFA Training Centre, where they are accessible to all free of charge. In addition, the TSG is responsible for selecting individual award winners and the team awarded the fair play prize at FIFA tournaments.

“Besides analysing the on-pitch action, the TSG studies trends and benchmarks for the future of the game and their impact on coach education and talent development. The group poses questions such as: how is football evolving? What are the trends moving forward? What are the key elements involved in the game? Statistical analysis enables teams to delve deeper into what they see with their eyes alone and backs up those impressions with metrics and numbers to help them to analyse the opposition and themselves,” added FIFA.

During his time in charge of the Senegalese national team, Cissé oversaw a triumphant CAF Africa Cup of Nations campaign in 2022 before guiding his nation to the last 16 at the FIFA 2022 World Cup. He is currently coach of the Libyan national team.