Tunisia national football team

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The Tunisia national football team (Arabic: ‎), 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. As of 23th June 2006, Tunisia has been knocked out of the 2006 World Cup, 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, when they hosted the tournament.

Contents

1 World Cup record
2 African Nations Cup record
3 Famous and Retired Players
4

5 External links

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

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

Famous and Retired Players

Head coach: Roger Lemerre

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Issam Jomaa had to withdraw through injury, and was replaced by Chaouki Ben Saada on 7th June

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.

External links

[Tunisia FA] official site

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Asia: AFC – Asian Cup

Africa: CAF – African Cup of Nations

North America: CONCACAF – Gold Cup

South America: CONMEBOL – Copa América

Oceania: OFC – Nations Cup

Europe: UEFA – European Championship

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|- style="text-align:center;" | Champions: Italy

Runners-up: France

Third place: Germany

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