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Coelho’s 23 For Cote d’Ivoire

August 4th, 2009 | By: Rami | 35 Comments »

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 very interested in seeing how Taider fits in, I’m not that familiar with him but I know we tried to get him to play for us before the 2006 World Cup and FIFA ruled it out.

Meanwhile, Coelho has dropped both Chermiti, Belaid, and Jaidi. The first two for insufficient competition apparently and the last because he hasn’t found a club yet.

Can’t say I’m not surprised about the Chermiti omission, I know he hasn’t played in every single game but seems like if we’re going to need him in Abuja (which I think we will) then why not bring him along and help him get more time on the pitch? Unless there’s an injury involved this doesn’t really make sense to me.

Goalkeepers: Hamdi Kasraoui, Jassem Khalloufi, Aymen Mathlouthi

Defenders: Khaled Souissi, Yamen Ben Zekri, Radhouène Felhi, Seif Ghzel, Karim Haggui, Bilel Iffa, Khalil Chammem, Yassine Mikari, Ammar Jemal

Midfielders: Chaouki Ben Saada, Khaled Korbi, Wissem Ben Yahia, Chadi Hammami, Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Houcine Ragued, ~~Jamel Saïhi~~, Nabil Taïder, Oussama Darragi

Strikers: Issam Jemaa, Sami Allagui, Mohamed Ali Ghariani, Ali Zitouni

What do you think? Anyone you really wanted to see called up that didn’t make it?

Update

We may not witness the return of Jamel Saihi after all as he will be missing the first match of the season against PSG on Saturday with an ankle sprain. Not sure if he’ll be ready for our match, he’s going to undergo a scan to determine how much time he needs to rest. Either way, its not good news…

Update 2.0

Jamel Saihi will in fact miss the friendly in Sousse but Aymen Mathlouthi and Ammar Jemal have been called up after Etoile decided to charter a private plane for their Champions League match versus Heartlands in Nigeria. The change in the departure date thanks to the change allows for both of them to be at Humberto Coelho’s disposal.

Tags: Amine Chermiti, Carthage Eagles, Group H, Humberto Coelho, Nabil Taider, Tunisian Football

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By Abdullah | August 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Ben chikha is possibly the new coach of l’esperance this is something look forward to !

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By Abdullah | August 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Aimen Belaid has come to the eredivisie http://www.brabantsdagblad.nl/sport/rkc/5279337/RKC-Waalwijk-begroet-Vitor-Pita-en-Belaid.ece

surely he’ll get enough playing time & he will get noticed fast here by other clubs like in the eredivisie.

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By Abdullah | August 7th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

ben achour is starting vs everton http://www.iraqgoals.net/ch4.html

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By Feedi | August 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Abdullah did he allready sign there.According to the article you send not.He is just on trial (according to the article).That article was posted on the 20th of juli.Maybe he already signed there and according to other websites he did.
http://www.rkcwaalwijk.org/article.php?sid=3432
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/spieler/81952/aimen-belaid/profil.html

By Tunisiano | August 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

The absence of Chermiti or Nouioui doesn’t bother me at all, we still have Jemaa (our topscorer). And Zitouni can also bring an effort to the team.

I am happy with the return of Ben Saada, that compense the absence of Chikhoaui. However I’m dissapointed to not see Camus in the list, who has made a perfect debute at RC Genk.

Defence is quiet solid, not mutch to say about.

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By Abdullah | August 8th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Ben Saada just keeps impressing me, now hes creating the most danger out of the whole OGC Nice team, just now he assisted in a the 1-0 over Saint-Etienne ht now..

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By Nabil | August 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Allagui scored the only goal for Greuther Furth in their 1-2 defeat to Kaiserslautern.

By Feedi | August 9th, 2009 at 8:29 am

http://www.atdhe.net/8367/watch-bordeaux-vs-lens

A link to watch bordeaux vs Lens.Start at 21:00 and 3:00 PM

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By Feedi | August 9th, 2009 at 10:38 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eU2YYUHVSw&feature=related

Nabil Taider scores a beautifull goal.

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By Abdullah | August 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Jemaa just scored the equalizer against bordeaux, unbelievable header and a great run

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By Tahar | August 9th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Jemaa ya bourass
http://videos.sapo.pt/ywTjODkGkdwv2Hff2SmC
Unfortunately Lens got off to a bad start and Kasraoui also didnt play.

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By Rami | August 9th, 2009 at 4:51 pm

If you think about the 3 goals they conceded at the end there maybe its good Kasraoui didn’t play! Also, Jemma got owned by Gourcuff on the 2-1 goal. Totally tripped him up. So it was a mixed bag even if the goal is nice.

Happy for Ben Saada.

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By Abdullah | August 9th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

The 3rd goal was an obvious mistake of dermont i think it was his second mistake leading to a goal, they all ran to one position at the bordeax’s 3rd.

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By bassem | August 10th, 2009 at 2:54 am

I saw the match of Jemaa yesterday, and he was sub. in the 60th minute and wasn’t happy about it, the commentator of sport1 also mentioned that there was a friction between him and the coach, don’t know if it is a rumor or not but there’s more to the sub. The commentator also mentiond that he liked Jemaa as player of the match, that was realy nice to hear. So if some knows whats going on or whats happening? Maby an upcoming transfer?

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By bassem | August 10th, 2009 at 2:55 am

Did some one watched the game of Haggui against Chermiti? How did the play if they played?

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By bassem | August 10th, 2009 at 2:55 am

Does some one know about the developments around Chika?

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By Feedi | August 10th, 2009 at 3:42 am

Bassam I did not watch the game but i know that Chermiti didn’t play and Haggui played the full game.Herta won 1-0.

Here are the highlights: http://www.footytube.com/video/bundesliga-1-spieltag-hertha-bsc-hannover-96-highlights-hq-2009-2010-18483

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By Feedi | August 10th, 2009 at 6:37 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjDN8SQPm5o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fballhype%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2Fbordeaux%5Fv%5Flens%5Fhighlights%2F&feature=player_embedded

Highlights:Lens vs Bordeaux

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By Abdullah | August 10th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Does anyone have info on this player http://team-tunisie.net/Tarak+Jaziri+45 ?

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By thamer | August 10th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

how can you be sure hes tunisian…if i had to guess i’d say he was algerian

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By Rami | August 10th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

I don’t really know much about him myself but saw people on Tunisie Foot openly wondering about him before. Pretty sure he is actually of Tunisian descent. Not sure of much else though. If I find anything out I’ll let you know. Also, Chermiti might be loaned out. So annoying.

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.morgenpost.de%2Fsport%2Fhertha%2Farticle1148054%2FHertha_will_Chermiti_ausleihen.html&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0

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By Abdullah | August 10th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

I knew that was coming, but why not stay in Europe, if he’s going to an arab country he might as well come back to ESS, actually now i think about it it might not be a bad idea to loan him to ESS, but its ridiculous to loan him to another arab country.

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By Rami | August 10th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

I agree, I hope they loan him to European team. Why not the Eredivisie even? At least there they don’t care how young you are…

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By thamer | August 10th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

yea, i agree. he should be loaned out, but to like a dutch team where he’ll be sure to start. if they loan him to an arab club he wont get any better and eventually he’ll be forgotten about. im also hoping benachour gets signed by malaga, all signs show that the coach really likes him and so do the fans. if he can get a starting spot in the team, it would be a big boost for us going into the world cup (inchallah)

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By Rami | August 10th, 2009 at 8:36 pm

Agreed, Cote d’Ivoire preview is uppp btw