Adel Chedli

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Adel Chedli
Personal information
Full name	Adel Chedli
Date of birth	16 September 1976
Place of birth	La Ricamarie, France
Height	1.76 m
Position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	none
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1994-97 1997-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-	AS Saint-Etienne FC Sochaux FC Istres FC Nürnberg FC Sion	33 (1) 152 (3) 24 (0) 5 (0)
National team**
1996-	Tunisia	41 (4)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 June 2006. ** National team caps and goals correct as of 23 June 2006.

Adel Chedli (Arabic: عادل الشاذلي) born 16 September 1976 in La Ricamarie, France) is a Tunisian football player currently playing for FC Sion.

He was born and raised in France and has both Tunisian and French citizenship. He earned his first professional football experience with AS Saint-Étienne after going through the club's youth system. In 1997 he was transferred to FC Sochaux for whom he played several years in the Ligue 1. It was during that time that also earned his first cap for the Tunisian national team. Before his move to Germany Chedli played for FC Istres. He left the club on a free transfer after they had been relegated to Ligue 2 after playing in 88 games.

At Nuremberg Chedli had a rough first year and a hard time breaking into the first squad, at the end of the season he had played in only six Bundesliga matches and was at times demoted to the club's Bayernliga reserve team. His situation did not improve when Chedli was sent off twice in a short span, once with the reserves and once in friendly against the Kansas City Wizards. After the latter incident in which Chedli had kicked a Wizards player in the shins, he left the field cursing at Nuremberg first team coach Hans Meyer, an event that the Nuremberg press interpreted as insubordination and predicted an early release of the left midfielder whose contract with Nurember still runs until 2007. That prediction became true in July 2006, when player and team agreed on a termination of the contract.

In his youth he played for the French junior national teams. Nonetheless he decided to play for the country of his parents' origin on the senior level. He's been a regular with the Tunisian national team since 2003 and won the 2004 African Nations' Cup with the "Carthage Eagles". He was also a member of the Tunisian Confederations Cup team in 2005 and will be a member of the squad for the 2006 World cup.

As of May 15, 2006 Chedli has been capped 33 times, scoring 3 goals in the process.

He is known for his striking resemblance to France's Zinedine Zidane and Portugal's Luis Figo.

	Tunisia squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Boumnijel | 2 Essediri | 3 Haggui | 4 Yahia | 5 Jaziri | 6 Trabelsi | 7 Guemamdia | 8 Nafti | 9 Chikhaoui | 10 Ghodhbane | 11 Santos | 12 Mnari | 13 Bouazizi | 14 Chedli | 15 Jaïdi | 16 Nefzi | 17 Ben Saada | 18 Jemmali | 19 Ayari | 20 Namouchi | 21 Saidi | 22 Kasraoui | 23 Melliti | Coach: Lemerre