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Les Aigles de Carthage<br>(''The Eagles of Carthage'')
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Fédération Tunisienne<br>de Football
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CAF ( Africa )
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Roger Lemerre
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Riadh Bouazizi
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Sadok Sassi "Attouga"
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Ezzedine Chakroun
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Stade 7 November
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Tunisia 1 - 2 Algeria <br/>( Tunisia 25 June , 1957 )
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Tunisia 7 - 0 Togo <br/>( Tunis , Tunisia 7 January , 2000 )<br> Tunisia 7 - 0 Malawi <br/>( Tunis , Tunisia 26 March , 2005 )
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Hungary 10 - 1 Tunisia <br/>( Hungary 24 July , 1960 )
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The (), 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 Cup s, 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 , when they hosted the tournament.
Head coach:
Roger Lemerre
Issam Jomaa had to withdraw through injury, and was replaced by
Chaouki Ben Saada on 7th June
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.
