1998:  Egypt FIBA organises the most famous and prestigious international basketball competitions including the FIBA Basketball World Cup, the FIBA World Championship for Women and the FIBA 3x3 World Tour. Tunisia: Midfielder: 20/03/1951: Hamza Agrebi: Tunisia: Defender: 21/03/1991: Ahmed Akaïchi: Tunisia: Forward: 23/02/1989: Mohamed Akid: Tunisia: Forward: 05/07/1949: Sami Allagui: Tunisia: Forward: 28/05/1986: Belhassen Aloui: Tunisia: Forward: Karim Aouadhi: Tunisia: Midfielder: 02/05/1986: Ghazi Ayadi: Tunisia: Midfielder: 19/07/1996: Anis Ayari: Tunisia: Defender: 16/02/1982: Khaled Ayari: Tunisia… Tunisia's first match at the stadium was played on 8 September 1967 against Libya. CB. In December 2018, French coach Alain Giresse was hired to oversee the team at the 2019 AFCON finals due to his experience in African football and his outstanding record as a player with the French national team. In the same period, Tunisia qualified for the fourth time in its history for the 2004 Olympic Games surpassing after a strong group including Egypt, Nigeria and Senegal overcame itself in Athens in the face of big teams. 202-C-91. Below is a chart of Tunisia FIFA ranking from 1993 till now. Before this match, the two teams had met once in the African Cup of Nations finals in 2013, which was also dominated by the Tunisians. 1986:  Egypt They also managed to get through Iraq and Lebanon before losing in the final against Syria 3–1. These steps led to the creation of the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) headed by Chedly Zouiten, which was approved on 29 March 1957. Tunisia 76–82 Kenya ( OT) Bamako, Mali – July 24, 2019. Most of the matches were played in the FIFA World Cup qualification as they met in the qualifiers of 1962, 1970, 1978, 1990, 1994 and 2006. Tunisia managed to return to the game after Ali Kaabi scored the equalizer for Tunisia to enter history as the first Tunisian player to score a World Cup goal in the 55th minute before adding two goals to finish the game 3–1. The first match took place on 1 June 1957 in a friendly match against the FLN football team when Algeria was a French colony. 1984:  Cameroon Despite the good results in friendly matches by defeating World Cup finalist Croatia 2–1, the start of the competition was poor after three draws in the group stage against Angola 1–1[80] and Mali in the same result 1–1[81] before a 0–0[82] draw against Mauritania to qualify for the Round 16 with great difficulty in second place. The former coach of Côte d'Ivoire Henryk Kasperczak was appointed, and the team's results were gradually improved. Thus, all the wins of Tunisia in the World Cup were against the CONCACAF teams. 2010:  Egypt The four qualifiers for the African Nations Cup were in 1978 (Tunisia won 3–2 after drawing 2–2), 1984 (0–0 draw in Tunis and the Pharaohs won in Cairo 1–0), 1992 (the teams drew 2–2 twice) and 2015 (Tunisia won 1–0 and 2–1 respectively), in addition to the current 2019 qualifiers for the fifth time, which Tunisia won the first game 1–0 in Radès and lost the second game in Alexandria 2–3. The official website of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, and the governing body of Basketball. 1 of 2. Tunisia qualified for the quarter-finals of the competition for the third consecutive time with difficulty after the defeat in the first round of Nigeria and the victory over Congo and draw with Morocco as the team managed to qualify for the semi-final by overcoming Egypt before they lost three to Cameroon and finish the competition in fourth place with a loss from South Africa on penalty shootout. Tunisia's qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and its positive results in the friendlies against Iran[66] and Costa Rica[67] led to its rise to 14th place in the FIFA World Rankings for the first time ever, after being first in African teams and surpassing teams like Italy and Netherlands. Tunisia basketball,stats,player,team,roster,game, schedule, score, result In June 2010, Bertrand Marchand was appointed manager on a two-year contract, with the goal of reaching the semifinals of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations especially after the excellent results he achieved with ES Sahel at the African and international level. [24] Tunisia fared even worse in the following tournament which the qualification was difficult against Sierra Leone,[25][26] falling in the group stages after a big defeat against Côte d'Ivoire 3–0[27] in addition to the draw with Togo[28] despite a 1–0 win over Algeria[29] in which Youssef Msakni scored what was later voted the goal of the tournament. As well as steadying the ship, Lemerre was tasking with winning the 2004 African Cup of Nations, which Tunisia would be hosting because his coaching career entitles him to coach the team as he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup as an assistant, the UEFA Euro 2000 and the 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup. Tunisia will play a quarter-final match... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images PRE Preliminary squad. It hosted also the 1965 and 1994 African Cup of Nations and the 1977 FIFA U-20 World Cup before it was replaced after the construction of El Menzah Stadium (45,000) in 1967 for the 1967 Mediterranean Games. Two of them ended in a draw in 1978 and 2000 and the other two matches with the victory of the Tunisian team in 2004 and 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. 1982:  Ghana The victory gave birth to the Tunisian team's present nickname, the "Eagles of Carthage", and accordingly, the team's badge was changed to its current design, which incorporates an eagle. 32. It hosted also the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations. The following year, Scoglio departed to rejoin Genoa CFC, sparking a period of severe instability. In the finals, Tunisia could not do better than 1998 performance, drawing 1–1 with Belgium but losing 2–0 to Russia and co-hosts Japan making the federation look for a big coach before the start of the 2004 African Cup hosted by Tunisia. 1963:  Ghana Of the fans that kept supporting the squad in bad times, Bechir Manoubi was one of the most loyal. info Januar 2000) Tunesien 7:0 Malawi (Tunis, Tunesien; 26. In 1965 Tunisia was allowed to act as host country and made it to the final, where they lost 2–3 against Ghana. Before the World Cup, Tunisia competed in the African Cup and won Uganda to find themselves in the semi-finals before losing to hosts Ghana to play third place match with Nigeria. Tunisia's biggest success in the tournament came 8 years later, when as hosts they reached the final for the third time and were victorious, defeating Morocco 2–1. Tunisia have reached 5 FIFA World Cup final competitions (1978, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2018), and have also appeared at the African Cup of Nations on 13 occasions, winning once . The team represents both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Tunisia is notorious as being one of the most successful and frequent participants in major African competitions, yet failing to deliver the same expectations outside Africa. 1988:  Cameroon, 1990:  Algeria But that did not prevent them from reaching the last round of the World Cup qualifiers by beating Nigeria before being defeated in front of Algeria, which qualified for the second time. Sunday, 12 Nov 2017 © AFP. Frane Matošić was appointed to coach the team as the second Yugoslav coach of the Tunisian team after Kristić led Tunisia to qualify for the Olympics. The Tunisian squad was the following: Zine el-Abidine Chennoufi, Sadok Dhaou (then Mohieddine Zeghir), Azaiez Jaballah, Driss Messaoud, Hassen Tasco, Abdou Béji, Ali Hannachi « Haj Ali », Amedée Scorsone, Hédi Braïek, Noureddine Diwa, Khemais Ghariani. Tunisian national football team players take part in a training session in Bongoville on February 3 during the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament. After confirming the decline of the Tunisian football, it was decided to hire a coach who knows the African football well. They have since qualified for three World Cups in succession, in 1998, 2002 and 2006, before returning in the last edition held in Russia in 2018. Located in Radès, the stadium has an all-seater capacity of 60,000. Coach Youssef Zouaoui was appointed to oversee the team and had a good start by winning friendly matches against Nigeria 5–0 and Canada 2–0 and also surpassed Benin and Guinea in the first rounds of the World Cup qualifiers in 1986. Against this turbulent backdrop, and with little preparation under new coach Sami Trabelsi, the team surprisingly won the 2011 African Nations Championship, following wins against Senegal,[15] Angola[16] and Rwanda[17] in the first round as well as DR Congo[18] and Algeria[19] in the playoffs and defeating Angola 3–0[20] in the final making the federation extend the Trabelsi's contract. They played their first official match at the 1957 Pan Arab Games where they won Libya 4–3 after scoring the first Tunisian goal in an official competition by Farzit. 1980:  Nigeria player/ position Goals; Ali Maâloul Left-Back : 1 : Anis Slimane Central Midfield : 1 : Saîf-Eddine Khaoui Attacking Midfield : 1 This choice comes after the great attendance of the Tunisian masses, which turned to Russia in large numbers between 15 and 20 thousand fans, attended and supported the Tunisian team in their three group matches of the World Cup. In 1960, the Yugoslavian Milan Kristić to be the first foreigner to coach the national team so Tunisia qualified for 1960 Summer Olympics which was their first international event after beating Malta, Morocco and Sudan; on 24 July 1960, the team experienced its biggest-ever defeat, losing 10–1 against Hungary. After the independence of Tunisia in 1956, the Tunisian national stadium was Chedly Zouiten Stadium which has a capacity of 18,000 and hosted all the matches of the Tunisian team. There are 0 players who played in that national team. 1978:  Ghana Most of Tunisia's home matches are played at the Stade Olympique de Radès in Radès since 2001. Tunisia Season Results. 2004 African Cup of Nations win qualified them for the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, where they were drawn in a difficult group including host Germany, Argentina and Australia. Caps and goals updated on 17 November 2020 after the match against Tanzania. Both Egypt and Tunisia also share a similar dubious record in the FIFA World Cup, with both teams being unable to progress beyond the group stage despite Tunisia qualifying for the World Cup five times, while Egypt qualified only three times. The website features live and on demand videos, basketball news, over 70,00 players … Tunisia are colloquially known as Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage). In the finals, they failed to advance from the group stages, losing 2–0 to England and 1–0 to Colombia, and drawing 1–1 with Romania. The independent Tunisia played their first match against Algeria on 1 June 1957, in the midst of the Algerian War; Tunisia lost 2–1. The two teams are similar in terms of both having a single African Cup and the two teams have also qualified for five World Cups, despite their numerous World Cup qualifying matches. The Eagles scored 42 goals in the Pharaohs' goal, while Egypt scored only 35 goals against Tunisia. Players of the Tunisian national football team celebrate reaching Russia 2018. Players of the Tunisian national football team run during a training session at Saks Stadium in Schweinfurt, 09 June 2006, ahead of the Fifa World Cup 2006. Currently, the Algerians dominate the head-to-head record and international achievement, nonetheless, in official competitions, Tunisia proves to be more dominant than Algeria. The beginning of 2011 saw tough political events in Tunisia. Early results were positive, including a (1–1)[37] draw against Colombia and a 1–0 win over South Korea,[38] both in friendly matches. Das erste von der FIFA anerkannte Spiel fand am 8. Radhouane Slimane. On 30 June 2008, Roger Lemerre left Tunisia after six years, the longest reign of any of the team's coaches. At the finals of 1996 African Cup of Nations, Tunisia began badly after a draw against Mozambique and a defeat from Ghana, but they finished second in their group, putting them through to the quarter-finals surpassing the first round for the first time since 1978 after winning Côte d'Ivoire 3–1. [127] However, he failed to qualify for the 1986 African Cup of Nations after the defeat to the Libyan team, which was strong in that period. In 2001, the 7 November Stadium was inaugurated as Tunisia's national stadium ahead of the 2001 Mediterranean Games. 2017:  Cameroon You can find here movies, news, places in tournaments and match scores of that team. Tunisia national handball team. In the finals they failed again in the group stage after a draw in the first round with Saudi Arabia 2–2 in Munich. Tunisia created history in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina by becoming the first African side to win a World Cup match, defeating Mexico 3–1. The Tunisia national football team, is the national team representing Tunisia in association football since their maiden match in 1957. Tunisians and Moroccans have played 50 games since their independence from France in 1956. In addition, there are many other venues that host the Tunisian team, such as the Olympic Stadium of Sousse, which hosted a friendly match between Tunisia and Switzerland in November 2012 and also hosted a match in the 2012 AFCON qualification between Tunisia and Chad which was won by Tunisia 5–0. The teams also met three times in the qualifying phase of the World Cup in 1970, 1978 and 1986. In that period, the team qualified for the second round of World Cup qualifiers after beating Rwanda. Belgian coach Georges Leekens was appointed in early 2014 to try and revive the team's fortunes. Tunisia participated in the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 1962. 1979 … One of the greatest moments for the Tunisian team was when the Tunisian delegation at the Tunis–Carthage International Airport received a warm "welcome home" after the 1978 epic that delighted the Tunisians, who still remember the details, and the brilliant performance of the team was credited with adding a new berth of qualification to Africa for the World Cup. Tunisia had to wait until 1939 for their first match win: a 4–1 victory over a team of amateur footballers of Paris. In the next round, the results improved by beating Ghana on penalties,[83] to qualify for the quarter-finals and also beat the surprise of the tournament Madagascar 3–0[84] to qualify for the semi-finals for the first time in 15 years when Tunisia won the AFCON in 2004 before they narrowly lost to Senegal 1–0[85] in extra time after a referee dispute of Bamlak Tessema because of not giving a clear penalty to Tunisia 4 minutes before the end of the game to complete the competition in fourth place behind Nigeria. Appearances for Tunisia National Team; Goalscoring for Tunisia National Team. Marchand was sacked in December, only six months into his two-year term. Tunisia won the match 3–0. In the second round the team played with Spain which was one of the most powerful teams in the world led by Raúl, Iker Casillas, Carles Puyol and Sergio Ramos and Tunisia managed to progress in the result in the 8th minute through the goal of Jawhar Mnari, but the team conceded 3 goals in the last minutes to defeat hard 3–1. It was at this time that the matches were the most regular. The 2006 World Cup qualifying match on 6 October 2005 between Tunisia and Morocco, which was just days before his death, was the last event he ever attended. Nations. With Maâloul having already resigned, the Dutch coach Ruud Krol took over for the two-leg playoff, but Tunisia lost 4–1[35][36] to Cameroon and Krol himself then resigned let the Tunisian team go in a bad way. In 1973, however, the team entered the Palestine Cup of Nations and won in dominant fashion, winning all six of their matches overcoming Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Yemen and Iraq, scoring 19 goals, and conceding only three with the Tunisian coach Ameur Hizem. Before independence, an unofficial team was formed in 1928, comprising the best Tunisian players from the Tunisian League. 1959:  United Arab Republic [3] Their next friendlies, against the same team on 23 March 1930 and 26 March 1933, also resulted in heavy defeats: 0–5 and 1–6 respectively. On 27 April 2017, Nabil Maâloul returned as coach despite the disapproval of the Tunisian supporters following the failure at the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, but this time he qualified Tunisia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia for the fifth time in the history of Tunisia and the first since 12 years after winning against DR Congo,[60][61] Guinea[62][63] and Libya[64][65] in the qualification. WD Player withdrew for personal reasons. 2000:  Cameroon He was immediately sacked. The Tunisian Football Federation was founded on 29 March 1957 and became affiliated to FIFA and the Confederation of African Football in 1960. The Tunisian A' national basketball team ( Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة السلة للمحليين ‎), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), is the national basketball team of Tunisia . This page documents Team Tunisia, the representatives of Tunisia at the IeSF World Championship. Tunisia's national team players take part in a training session in Rades on March 22 a day before their friendly football match against Iran. They also lost to Argentina 2–1 before being defeated again, this time against Denmark 3–1. / Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images In the second match, the Tunisians fought back to the 74th minute where they accepted three goals from the German team to finish the score 3–0, while in the third game they managed to beat Australia 2 -0 to leave good impressions. The Tunisian handball League was founded in 1953. 1994:  Nigeria Kulesza failed also to qualify for the 1984 African Cup after the defeat against Egypt, which precipitated his departure. Under Leekens, the team climbed from 49th to 22nd in few months in the FIFA rankings so the team regained its continental luster after the emergence of a new generation of players. Profile of Tunisia volleyball national team. 2012:  Zambia 1996:  South Africa The Tunisian team also played a match with the Austrian team FC Admira Wacker Mödling on 30 December of the same year and managed to win 4–1 thanks to two goals from both Dهwa and Braïek and the Tunisian squad was as follows : Mohamed Bennour (then Houcine El Bez), Youssef Sehili, Azaiez Jaballah, Mokhtar Ben Nacef, Mehrez Jelassi, Abdou Béji, Ali Hannachi « Haj Ali », Abderrahman Ben Ezzedine, Hédi Braïek, Noureddine Diwa (then Khemais Ghariani), Hammadi Henia. / Erstklassige Nachrichtenbilder in hoher Auflösung bei Getty Images Tunisia. Indeed, the two teams met six times, between June 1957 and May 1958, with eight victories for the Algerians. Club Africain Tunis 11 0 0 0 0 0 Fadhel, Khaled: 1976-09-29 Goalkeeper … He also achieved catastrophic results in the Football at the African Games with defeats against Cameroon, Madagascar and Kenya. He attended the team's matches worldwide since 1960, he was famous for wearing the Mexican hat and his suit with thousands of slogans and cards for the various events he covered. 80. Tunisia's national team has participated in three quadrennial major football competitions. Country: England ## England ; Tunisia ; Worldwide; Europe; South America ... 23 Players/Coaches: Tunisia: World Cup 1998 France: 23 Players/Coaches: Tunisia: World Cup 2002 Japan/South Korea: 24 Players/Coaches: Tunisia: World Cup 2006 Germany: 24 Players/Coaches: Tunisia : World Cup 2018 Russia: 24 Players/Coaches: Tunisia: WC Qualifiers Africa … It took only one point to qualify before the 83rd minute defeat in Mozambique to leave the place for Nigeria,[10][11] Coelho was sacked immediately and coach Faouzi Benzarti was hired to oversee the team at the 2010 African Cup; he too was sacked after Tunisia were eliminated from the group stage, drawing all three of their matches against Gabon, Cameroon, and Zambia finishing in the bottom of the group. The overall record is slightly favorable to the Tunisians as they won 16 matches and Egypt won 12 matches and ended 11 matches with a draw; however Egypt has achieved more successes in Africa than Tunisia. In the first game, Mexico managed to advance through a penalty in the first half to end the break 1–0 for the Mexican team. References This article about sports in Tunisia is a stub. Fans of the Tunisian national team display the country's national flag, usually with an emphasis on the red element. Tunisia gained independence from France on 20 March 1956. Under Maâloul, the results worsened because Tunisia failed to make the World Cup qualification playoffs after a 2–0 defeat to Cape Verde national football team although the results of the World Cup qualifiers were good initially by beating Equatorial Guinea[30][31] and Sierra Leone,[32][33] but Cape Verde were found to have fielded an ineligible player and Tunisia were awarded a 3–0 victory,[34] putting them through to the playoffs. The following players have been called up to the squad within the last 12 months. [128] Only official FIFA matches are included. Lemerre became the first coach to win two different continental tournaments, having previously won Euro 2000 with France. [70] Francileudo Santos and Ziad Jaziri scored the goals for Tunisia. They managed to qualify for the African Cup for the first time in 14 years through the qualification after overcoming Liberia and Senegal. Despite this, in the World Cup, the performance of the team did not rise to the expected level, and was once again eliminated from the group stage after losing 1–2 against England because of Harry Kane's goal in the last minute[71] and a complete 2–5 thrash against Belgium,[72] before winning the last game 2–1 against Panama,[73] the first World Cup win for Tunisia since beating Mexico 3–1 in 1978. In that year the country came in third by defeating Uganda in the third place match 3–0. In 1957, the Tunisians founded the Tunisian handball Federation, which was later admitted into the International Handball Federation in 1962. National team. Because of this dismal performance, Tunisian squad was heavily criticized for its unpromising performance and the team's dubious record in World Cup, and fell out of top 20 teams on FIFA ranking. In fact, Tunisia qualified for the African Cup hosted by neighbor Libya with Polish coach Ryszard Kulesza after being banned in 1980 African Cup but achieved negative results: drew with Cameroon 1–1 in the first game before being defeated against Libya 2–0 and Ghana 1–0 to withdraw by only one point. Ahmed Addami. Nach der Unabhängigkeit Tunesiens im Jahr 1956 folgten weitere Spiele, die aber von der FIFA noch nicht anerkannt wurden. Hossam Hassan is the most of Egyptian players participating in the games of the Pharaohs against the Eagles of Carthage with 12 games, while Wahbi Khazri comes as the most of Tunisian players to participate in their matches against Egypt by 3 games. Tunisia went on to beat Gabon in the quarter-finals and Zambia in the semi-finals 4–2 to reach their first major final in 31 years, but lost to host country South Africa 2–0. They qualified for the same tournament in 1998 in France and 2018 in Russia. The emergence of skilled players and the rise of a new promising generation in addition to good results in the second term of Henryk Kasperczak, increased fans' enthusiasm and belief in a successful World Cup campaign. Municipal Stadium of Gabès was also chosen to host a friendly match between Tunisia and Mauritania which ended with a draw in October 2016. Tunisia advanced unbeaten from the group stage, beating Rwanda 2–1 in the opening match of the tournament before winning the second game against DR Congo 3–0, and drawing 1–1 with Guinea. Source: CAF, First match(es) will be played on June 2021. The Tunisian national basketball team ( Arabic: منتخب تونس لكرة السلة ‎), nicknamed Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage or The Carthage Eagles), is the national basketball team of Tunisia . Between 2008 and 2014, local journalists accused the Tunisian team for their poor performance. He managed to qualify the team for the 2017 African Cup in the lead with victory over Liberia,[49][50] Togo[51][52] and Djibouti.[53][54]. Their first match was for the 1962 World Cup qualification, took place on 30 October 1960 in Casablanca. The overall record is slightly favorable to the Algerians with sixteen wins, fourteen draws and fourteen losses. They appeared in the end stages of five FIFA World Cups and nineteen Africa Cup of Nations, and featured at four Olympic football tournaments. Tunisia was placed in the group 2 with Egypt, which was a strong candidate for the qualification, but Tunisia managed to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup for the second time in its history and the first since 20 years after winning Egypt, Liberia and Namibia. Tunisia have faced the Egyptian team 7 times in qualifying for either the World Cup or the African Nations Cup. 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