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Tunisia

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Life is looking up for Tunisian football as the national team have qualified for their third World Cup finals in succession and are African Champions to boot.

Wily French coach, Roger Lemerre, who took France to victory at the 2000 European Championships, has created a strong, hard-running unit which is difficult to break down but possesses potency in attack and on the counter in the shape of Brazilian-born striker Francileudo dos Santos and local hero Haikel Gmandia.

Tunisia scored more goals than any other team in African qualifying - netting twenty five times but they also conceded more than any of the other four qualifiers - shipping nine goals in ten games.

Tunisia Matches

Match # Date & Time Group Teams Result Venue
16 Wed 14th Jun 18:00 H  TUN  KSA 2 - 2 Munich
31 Mon 19th Jun 21:00 H  ESP  TUN 3 - 1 Stuttgart
48 Fri 23rd Jun 16:00 H  UKR  TUN 1 - 0 Berlin

Match times shown are local times for Germany (CEST/GMT+0200). Click on match date/time to view match statistics.

Past World Cup performance

Key Players

World Cup 2006 Qualification

Squad

Total World Cup 2006
# Posn Name DOB Club Caps Goals Pld Goals OG YC RC
1 GK Boumnijel Ali 13-04-1966 Club Africain TUN 52 0 3 0 0 0 0
2 FW Essediri Karim 29-07-1979 Rosenborg NOR 9 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 DF Haggui Karim 20-01-1984 Strasbourg FRA 30 4 3 0 0 1 0
4 DF Yahia Alaeddine 26-09-1981 Saint-Etienne FRA 14 0 1 0 0 0 0
5 FW Jaziri Zied 12-07-1978 Troyes FRA 65 15 3 1 0 2 1
6 DF Trabelsi Hatem 25-01-1977 Ajax NED 60 0 3 0 0 1 0
7 FW Guemamdia Haykel 22-12-1981 Strasbourg FRA 14 5 1 0 0 1 0
8 MF Nafti Mehdi 28-11-1978 Birmingham City ENG 33 1 3 0 0 0 0
9 FW Chikhaoui Yassine 22-09-1986 ES du Sahel TUN 3 0 1 0 0 1 0
10 MF Ghodhbane Kaies 07-01-1976 Konyaspor TUR 93 6 3 0 0 0 0
11 FW Santos Francileudo 20-03-1979 Toulouse FRA 29 18 1 0 0 0 0
12 MF Mnari Jaouhar 08-11-1976 Nuremberg GER 41 2 3 1 0 1 0
13 MF Bouazizi Riadh 08-04-1973 Erciyesspor TUR 89 4 3 0 0 2 0
14 MF Chedli Adel 16-09-1976 Nuremberg GER 42 4 3 0 0 1 0
15 DF Jaidi Radhi 30-08-1975 Bolton Wanderers ENG 93 7 3 1 0 2 0
16 GK Nefzi Adel 16-03-1974 US Monastir TUN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 FW Ben Saada Chaouki 01-07-1984 Bastia FRA 12 0 1 0 0 0 0
18 DF Jemmali David 13-12-1974 Bordeaux FRA 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
19 DF Ayari Anis 16-02-1982 Samsunspor TUR 26 1 2 0 0 1 0
20 MF Namouchi Hamed 14-02-1984 Rangers SCO 18 1 3 0 0 0 0
21 DF Saidi Karim 24-03-1983 Lecce ITA 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 GK Kasraoui Hamdi 18-01-1983 Esperance TUN 6 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 MF Melliti Sofiane 18-08-1978 Gaziantepspor TUR 14 1 0 0 0 0 0