Comments on: Fahd Ben Khalfallah Refuses African Cup Chance

By: Rami

Rami — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:03:38 +0000

Good looks Skander, thanks for telling me. I’ll check them out for sure.

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Daily Dose 01.03.08 - World Cup Blog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:26:32 +0000

[...] Fahd Ben Khalfallah going to pass on the ACN(Tunisia Blog) [...]

By: Skander

Skander — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:29:06 +0000

It’s like Sami Khedira and Hatem Ben Arfa

By: Skander

Skander — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:28:11 +0000

There’s some videoclips of Ben Hatira in Youtube search =”ben hatira” when he plays for Germany in the U19 european championship, but i’ve heard from an interview when Ben Hatira met a guy from the FTF in a hotel on the island of Djerba that he wants to keep wearing the Germany jersey. I hope he changes his mind before he reaches the age of 21….

By: thamer

thamer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:55:37 +0000

damn, i was looking forward to seeing him play. oh well. even with all these injuries and setbacks, we shouldnt lose hope. don’t forget our best players are still good to go. we’ve got a pretty deep team in my opinion. other than in attack, we have a player on the bench who can play just as well as the person starting ahead of him. the only players who have a guarenteed starting spot are chika, jemaa chermiti, ben frej and haggui. i’m looking forward to some big performances from some of our young talent from etoile (chermiti, felhi, nafkha) although felhi is the least popular of them, i really like him and he put on some great performances in japan, definatly has potential. i’m still not sure what the best possible lineup is for the can, but i know that if lemerre somehow gets lucky and finds it, we have a very good chance of winning this thing.

By: Rami

Rami — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:54:24 +0000

Bman, i’ll look for someone in the tunisian federation, maybe we can get you trial? Start polishing up those skills haha.

Skander, I’m not sure about Tijani yet. I assume there’s still an investigation to be completed so he will probably have to deal with that. Hopefully the latest reports are true and he hasn’t done anything wrong. On Mosaique FM when they started talking about the training camp that started today and the players that are there, they mentioned Tijani saying that he “is fine but still in the hospital and that his return to the team will be delayed.” I don’t know if that really answers the question. Apparently they’re willing to give him a chance and see where his head is at.

Seems like quite a gamble to include someone who just went through such a traumatic experience. Some people react differently to certain situations though and if he is strong mentally then maybe he can bounce back quickly. You would think that the best place to find refuge would be on the soccer pitch. If he does join the group it might serve as a good kind of therapy because people in the team will surely rally around him and offer their support. I don’t know how I feel about him playing. There’s people that can replace him but it’s still not clear what’s going to happen.

By: Skander

Skander — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:44:31 +0000

Rami do you think Tijani are going to play in the can?.

By: Skander

Skander — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:40:12 +0000

I would prefere Mouihbi instead of Dhaouadi

By: Bman

Bman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:41:12 +0000

Hey Rami, ill volunteer to play, it seems no one else wants to. Somebody should tell him, Khalfallah bro, you are in league 2 right now, he cant demand to be in the starting 11 on his club team i suppose let alone national team. He should be happy he got called up. Also a good african nations showing should enhance his chanced to play in a nbetter league like it did for Jaidi and Haggui. If he thinks he should be in the starting 11, he should definitly prove it.

Yeah lets send some hungry players that actually want to play and fight with desire.