Tunisia national football team
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| Nickname(s) | Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage) |
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| Association | Fédération Tunisienne de Football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederation | CAF (Africa) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach |  Humberto Coelho |
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| Captain | Radhi Jaidi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | Sadok Sassi "Attouga" (110) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Francileudo Santos (22) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home stadium | Stade 7 November | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA code | TUN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIFA ranking | 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest FIFA ranking | 19 (February 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest FIFA ranking | 56 (March 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elo ranking | 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest Elo ranking | 24 (June 1978) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest Elo ranking | 103 (July 1988) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Tunisia 2 - 1 Algeria  (Tunisia; 25 June 1957) |
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| Biggest win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo  (Tunis, Tunisia; 7 January 2000) Tunisia 7 - 0 Malawi  (Tunis, Tunisia; 26 March 2005) |
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.png/22px-Flag_of_Hungary_(1957-1989).png){kind=small} Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia (Hungary; 24 July 1960) |
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| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 4 (First in 1978) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 1, 1978, 1998, 2002, 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African Nations Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 13 (First in 1962) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | First place, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Confederations Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 1 (First in 2005) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | 1st round, 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tunisia national football team (Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة القدم), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage), is the national team of Tunisia and is controlled by the Fédération Tunisienne de Football. They have qualified for four FIFA World Cups, the first one in 1978, but have yet to make it out of the first round. Nevertheless, they created history in that 1978 tournament in Argentina by becoming the first African side to win a World Cup match, beating Mexico 3-1. They also held defending champions West Germany to a goalless draw before bowing out. It took them 20 years to return to the finals but they have since qualified for the past three tournaments in succession, in 1998, 2002 and 2006. They were the only African team to appear at 2002 and 2006. 2002 qualifiers Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa were replaced by Ivory Coast, Angola, Ghana and Togo who would all qualify for the first time. Tunisia were knocked out of the 2006 World Cup after coming third in their group after drawing with Saudi Arabia and suffering successive loses to Spain and Ukraine.
Tunisia also won the African Nations Cup in 2004, for the first time in their history, when they hosted the tournament.
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[edit] World Cup record
- 1930 to 1958 - Did not enter
- 1962 - Did not qualify
- 1966 - Withdrew
- 1970 - Did not qualify
- 1974 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Round 1
- 1982 to 1994 - Did not qualify
- 1998 - Round 1
- 2002 - Round 1
- 2006 - Round 1
[edit] African Nations Cup record
- 1957 - Did not enter
- 1959 - Did not enter
- 1962 - Third place
- 1963 - Round 1
- 1965 - Second place
- 1968 - Did not qualify
- 1970 to 1974 - Did not enter
- 1976 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Fourth place
- 1980 - Withdrew
- 1982 - Round 1
- 1984 to 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Round 1
- 1996 - Second place
- 1998 - Quarterfinals
- 2000 - Fourth place
- 2002 - Round 1
- 2004 - Champions
- 2006 - Quarterfinals
- 2008 - Quarterfinals
[edit] Famous and Retired Players
- Tarek Dhiab
- Sadok_Sassi
- Hamadi Agerbi
- Mokhtar Dhouib
- Mohamed Ali Akid
- Tmim Hzemi
- Ali Kaabi
- Najib Ghommidh
- Mokhtar Naili
- Faouzi Rouissi
- Jameleddine Limam
- Chokri El Ouaer
- Nabil Maaloul
- Adel Sellimi
- Zoubier Baya
- Skander Souayah
- Tarek Thabet
- Hatem Trabelsi
- Mehdi Ben Slimane
- Imed Ben Younes
- Hassen Gabsi
- Raouf Bouzaiene
- José Clayton
- Khaled Badra
- Riadh Bouazizi
- Kaies Ghodhbane
[edit] 2006 World Cup
At first many Tunisians criticized the coach for not putting in Selim Benachour who many considered the best player for the country who currently plays for Vitoria SC
Tunisia managed to draw their opening game against Saudi Arabia. They took the lead at half time thanks to Ziad Jaziri, but Tunisia didn't start well in the second half and Saudi Arabia equalized from Yasser Al-Qahtani. Substitute Sami Al-Jaber came on and scored with 4 minutes to go to put the Saudi's 2-1 up, but in added time Bolton defender Radhi Jaidi headed in an equalizer.
Tunisia lost their second match to Spain. Jaouhar Mnari put Tunisia in the lead with a goal in the eighth minute that kept them up until halftime. However, Spain came back in the second half scoring an equalizer that came from Raúl(72') and two additional goals from Fernando Torres(76', pen 90') that defeated Tunisia with a final score of 3-1.
Tunisia lost their last group match to Ukraine with a 1-0 defeat effectively ending their 2006 World Cup. Andriy Shevchenko(70') scored the only goal from a penalty kick.
[edit] Current Squad
Squad for the friendly match against Côte d'Ivoire on March 26, 2008.
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[edit] Defenders
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[edit] Midfielders
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[edit] Strikers
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[edit] Recent Call Ups
The following players have also been called up to the Tunisia squad recently:
- Players
| Name | DOB | Club | Caps (goals) | Most recent callup |
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| GK Adel Nefzi | March 16, 1974 | Club Africain |
0 (0) | 2008 African Cup of Nations , January 2008 |
| DF Wisam El-Abdi | April 2, 1979 |  Zamalek |
? (?) | 2008 African Cup of Nations , January 2008 |
| DF Wissem El Bekri | June 16, 1984 | Espérance de Tunis |
? (?) | 2008 African Cup of Nations , January 2008 |
| DF David Jemmali | December 13, 1974 |  Girondins Bordeaux |
6 (0) | 2008 African Cup of Nations provisional squad , January 2008 |
| MF Mohamed Ali Nafkha | January 25, 1986 | Etoile du Sahel |
1 (0) | 2008 African Cup of Nations provisional squad , January 2008 |
| FW Ali Zitouni | January 11, 1981 |  Antalyaspor |
40 (12) | 2008 African Cup of Nations provisional squad , January 2008 |
[edit] Recent Call Ups
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[edit] External links
- Tunisian FA official site
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