Comments on: Etoile Overcomes Spirited Stade Tunisien Fightback

By: Rami

Rami — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:34:23 +0000

Thanks for the love guys! I’m glad you are happy with the material. I’ll do my best to keep it coming and hopefully continue to improve on the quality of writing and the content. I wish this was my full time job, I’d have so much more time to dedicate to it. Not complaining though, I’m enjoying every second… And as I’ve said in the past, the feedback, arguments, and debates are what make it even more enriching so I have to thank all of you also!

Abdullah, I grew up in Menzah 7 near Cite l’Emir if you know it. Went to Tunisian primary school at Menzah 7 then College at Menzah 5. Switched to the American School in Aouina for high school. Spent a lot of time in Gammarth and Marsa over the years as many of my foreign friends lived out there. But yea, Menzah and Ennasr are where I’m from I guess. It’s cool to hear where you’re all from. Makes me think of all the places I want to visit (Sousse, Bizerte, Korbus, Hammamet, Djerba, Sidi Bou…aaah don’t get me started!)

To answer your other question, I’ve been writing for World Cup Blog for almost a year now (less month away from the anniversary) and I don’t count on stopping anytime soon. I’m trying to find an avenue to get paid to write eventually…

Rachid, thanks for the kind words. This series you have going with EST is going to be a real joy to watch. Not often you get three classicos back to to back to back

Moni, if we’re all in the same place at the same time a game would definitely be in order. I know Tunisie-foot organizes some in France and in Tunis sometimes. It’s a cool idea I think.

Enjoy the Euro Final everyone!

By: Skander

Skander — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:24:30 +0000

Abdullah, i’m from Sousse.

By: Moni

Moni — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:31:29 +0000

Yo Rami I saw your comment on the Egypt blog with Tamim, over the decision of the Egypt FA, you said about oure FTF suggesting not playing during the rammadan, that playing 2 times a week would be bad.

But my Q to you is, why Englisch premier League players can do this ?
they also play 2 times a week and sometimes more including CHAMPIONS League ore UEFA cup foot. ALso there league consist of 20 clubs like the SERIE A and Primera Divisione, so the have 38 days of competions Football, and the tunisian league only 26 , Is it not possibel to play 2 times a week ore even make Tunisian league consist of 16 ore even 18 clubs in league A ????

I think players would have more playing time ? Ore could we say that 14 clubs is just good for tunisia ?

By: Achraf

Achraf — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:57:15 +0000

Hey Abdullah, I am from menzel jmil in bizerte, and I live in DC in the US.

By: Rachid

Rachid — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:23:55 +0000

Rami ought to be congratulated not just for the number of articles he produces, but also for the high quality and for his continued impartiality. He is a declared CA fan, but consistently reports on news affecting all Tunisian clubs. July is going to be a busy month with three expected matches between Etoile and Esperance. Then, there is the fight for the CAF Cup fight for the group phase involving our other two favorite clubs, CA and CSS. It’s too bad not all can qualify, but we will have at least one and a maximum of 3. Three Tunisia clubs out of 8 would probably be a first in the history of this competition. As you can see, the probablity of the CAF Cup staying somewhere in Tunisia is pretty good!

By: Moni

Moni — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:04:48 +0000

Rami you should organise a tunisian USA vs. EUROPE game, between the visitors of the blog hehehe

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:32:54 +0000

Where are you guys all from in tunis?, My family is from Metlaoui in gafsa its near tozeur, i consider it my real home even though i have been living in Amsterdam all my life, its hot as hell there tho!

And rami i must say since i have been visiting this blog, i have been up to date on all the changes in tunisian football, is this blog gonna stay after the worldcup?

I think if you kept up this good work it might be a real succesfull site, i see you have way more articles about tunisian soccer than any of the other countries i see listed.

By: Rami

Rami — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:59:15 +0000

Thamer that is a really awesome story! Thanks for sharing… It’s not as crazy of a coincidence but when I met up with Tahar to watch France Holland at lucky bar in DC we got to talking and it turns out his cousin lives in my neighborhood and I know who he is. Thats the great thing about being from small place like Tunisia. There’s always a good chance that you know someone through some extended family relation or friendship. Ah man, I miss Tunis!

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:13:38 +0000

Nice story there Thamer , seems like there are tuansa everywhere….their taking over the world w0000t!

By: thamer

thamer — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:53:14 +0000

hey guys whats up. a funny thing happened to me yesterday and this would probably be the best place to share it. so i was at a party yesterday in roosevelt island, the island between manhattan and queens in new york city, and the party was on like the 11th floor of an apartment. so i was chilling with my friends on the balcony which overlooks a giant football pitch. it was maybe like 9:30 so it was dark but the field had strong lights so it was still playable. anyway, in the whole field there was just this one guy playing soccer by himself, and he looked pretty good from what i could tell. i hadnt played in a long time and really wanted to go join him, but i didnt want to be rude and just leave the party, so i just told my friends i would be right back…so i go down to the field and i see the guy playing by himself, turns out hes was a teenager. so i ask him “do you mind if i play with you” and he says, “i dont speak english” he was kinda brown so i thought he was latin american, so i asked him, “what language do you speak” in case it was spanish so i would be able to communicate with him. to my surprise he said french. so i was like “ah bon?, ca te derrange si je joue avec toi?” and he was like “non” so after a little small talk in french i finally asked him “alors, t’es d’ou?” and he was like “de la tunisie”…i dont know who was more shocked that the other was tunisian. turns out he is the cousin of a younger boy in my school who i actually know, after a while he joined us. but how amazing is that…what are the chances that the only two people playing football at 10:00 at night on a friday are two kids from the same country who have never met before. yea, anyway, i just wanted to share, hope you enjoyed the story!