So Shuaibu Amodu dropped his list. Notably absent are Yakubu and Martins who aren’t fit enough… It’s only 21 players but he will be adding two more on Monday. The Nigerian coach is giving himself until then to decide between Bolton’s Danny Shittu and FC Sion’s Obinna Nwaneri as well as between Club Brugge striker [...]

I’ll update this article with a full match report later tonight but in the meantime I wanted to provide a fresh post where we can discuss the game further.
It was great to see the team play in font of a packed house yesterday. A nice sendoff before our departure for Abuja next month.
Lots of justified [...]

We’re two days away from our August 12th matchup versus Drogba and company and you know what the means: Preview time. Yup, even though things have been unusually quiet on the blog recently there’s still a little thing we call the Tunisian National Team which we all care about quite a bit and it just [...]

The list dropped today somewhat unexpectedly (thought it was coming out tomorrow) and the biggest story is Nabil Taider’s callup as well as the return of Chaouki Ben Saada. Saihi is back too after an extended absence due to a pretty serious knee injury. Hopefully he can blast another one like he did against Holland.
I’m [...]

Vahid Halilhodzic has announced a list of 32 players from which he will be selecting a smaller roster (around 23 usually) which will travel to Sousse to take part in our August 12th friendly.
No real surprises here, just happy to see they’ve called up the big guns so we can really use this as [...]

Infosfoot.net and Mosaique FM are both reporting that the technical staff of the national Olympic team which is composed of Skander Kasri, Lotfi Hsoumi, and Slim Ben Othman will not have their contracts renewed after our participation at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara.
While that’s not altogether surprising, what remains a mystery is why Esperance’s [...]

Modeling wasn’t enough of a side gig for our striker apparently because according to Amine Chermiti, his club (and more specifically his coach Lucien Favre) is interested in quite a number of Tunisian players. The list reportedly includes Aymen Balbouli, Youssef Msakni, Ammar Jemal, and Oussemma Darragi.
Here’s what he said word for word after naming [...]

The headline of the article basically sums it up. We just couldn’t find that finishing touch today in a match that we dominated from start to finish. A few defensive lapses could have cost us but thankfully no such thing happened.
It’s hard for one to hide their disappointment when we were rather close to putting [...]

It’s two days before the match and things are already heating up for our potentially decisive encounter versus the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Ever since the draw was announced the two matches circled on the calendar were the home and away ties between the two African powerhouses.
A lot has happened since then and Nigeria’s misstep [...]

Wish I didn’t have to write this but weeks ago I read on a Tunisian newspaper (I believe Assabah Edit: It was Assahafa) that there was a chance Yassine Chikhaoui wasn’t completely recovered from his injury and that his comeback was being hampered by continuing pain in his knee.
I was concerned and posted the information [...]