Step 6: Mozambique vs. Tunisia Preview

Go Tunisia!!

Wow i wish our players could read this, i almost shed a tear reading this article Rami heheh

Great work, and i too think we are ready, willing, and able, this is going to be one hell of a match i tell ya

Anyway i think the team that will be starting saturday will be much more solid than the one we had in Rades where our attack was isolated and Coelho took a big risk not having a player like Darragi (who can coordinate it) on the pitch from the beginning.

Dhaouadi as a supersub would be great, question still is what are we going to start with anyways, but having him on from the beginning ain’t that bad either, securing a lead and then sub him off for Mrabet might be good too i personally think Mrabet posses the same kind of qualities Taider has, i saw him play with CSS and after the spectacle in Abuja he definately convinced me he deserves a to play.

Dammit i’m so curious to see our line-up.

Wow, another great Preview Rami, You are on a roll, its amazing!

ART Sport will show the match and cant wait for it!!
I would love to see Allagui-Chermiti up front, that is such a dangerous attack if we use it.

Inchallah Marbooha and hope we will be celebrating on Saturday!!

Inchallah marbou7a…….great preview Rami…….
If we have Darraginho in the match i’m sure we will win he is the best………..Inchallah rabi m3ana

Good luck Tunis! I hope you will make with the Egyptian team to SA

Guys, I’m really so nervous about this match…
I really don’t know what will happen, it’s really so hard to tell. I just hope that we don’t play as bad as we did against Kenya, even though we won that game..
Cause if we do, there is no way we’re ever gonna win this match.
This is very very important and we need to be in our best shape and best form throughout the whole match.. But it will be difficult and I find it very difficult to imagine that we will win this match, but inshallah we will!

i wouldnt worry so much hedi. its true ethat mozambique is a very strong team, but when you take a good look at the the talent in our squad, you’ll see that we have nothing to be afraid of. with darragi, chermiti, allagui and ben khalfallah, we have enough attacking power to score 4 or 5 goals on them, i doubt we will, but they’re that good. with ragued and korbi pressing and not giving an inch of space to their attackers and with haggui ghezel and souissi behind them clearing any danger we’ll be fine. plus we have our secret weapon and arugably most important player, mikari who im sure will be giving them hell down the left flank and completely smothering any attacks they try down the right. if we use the same game plan as we did in abuja, we’ll be fine.

Ben Khalifa scored again, Switzerland is 2-0 up by HT against Colombia http://www.fifa.com/live/competitions/u17worldcup/matchday=14/day=1/match=300102256/index.html

I know but the thing is that everything has to go completely according to the plan. And since this is such an important game, the players will surely be really nervous and just the smallest mistake can cost us the victory… And we are a team that often make really simple faults which often prove capable of being decisive, and we often have difficulties to play a whle match without making this kind of mistake. We have to play just like we did against Nigeria or even better, considering how important this match is for us, and considering that Mozambique hasn’t lost a home game in nearly two years… I am really worried and actually I don’t know how to get myself through the match, I’m going to be a living powder cag as soon as the game starts and I will be one until it ends..

Amir, thanks for supporting us! Best of luck to your squad. I said in my goal.com preview that Algeria will qualify but really anything is possible so we’ll see. I’ll be watching intently and will support either team that makes it to SA.

Mostafa, Abdullah, Adam, Achraf, much appreciated. It was really emotional writing this one and difficult to even approach given the significance of the game. I struggled mightily to begin it but once I figured out what needed to be said it felt good to get it off my chest.

Hedi, I am nervous too. It’s normal but as Thamer pointed out, we have the tools to beat them. Plus, look at our match against Nigeria. We made a terrible mistake in that one. Before the game everyone was saying its over for us. Then we let in a goal at a time that should be a death sentence for any team but we fought back and got our result against all odds. Even if we concede a goal or more in Maputo, if we play with this same mentality we can move mountains. This match is one where heart and determination goes above technique and skill. It’s all about desire and I think these our players have that “glayeb” to make us happy. I do understand you anxiety though, I’m in the same boat. Inshallah labes.

Abdullah, that kid is on a roll! After Chikhaoui they now have another Tunisian fella to support

Not the best news about our right back situation. Both Chahed and Souissi are having issues. Chahed has a sore throat and is a little sick while Souissi’s knee problems have resurfaced with the long flight and new playing surface causing him pain in his knee. I really hope one of them recovers fully because I’d much rather not see Felhi at right back since he’s our only real fall back plan… Not time to panic yet, but something to be aware of.

http://www.mosaiquefm.net/index/a/ActuDetail/Element/8773-Souissi-et-Chahed-s%C3%A8chent-les-entra%C3%AEnements.html

ghezel would be our best fall back option. young boys play with three at the back and hes on the right side so he’d be our best bet i think. if that turns out to happen then haggui would move over one and jmel would take his old spot and we’d be fine.

Yep plus Jmel is really solid as a CB i think Ghezal would manage at the RB position but that’s it he doesn’t bring anything else to the table as a RB, not that Souissi does a lot more but at least he tries, it would be too risky for Ghezal to move up a bit like a wingback.

LOL look at this commentator hatin on us http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xasu13_tunsie-et-algerie-au-coupe-de-monde_sport

Btw Rami i read your article on what happened to the Algerian’s player bus and i can’t believe it, ppl go that far for football?!

I really hope they catch those sob’s! Remember when Etoile players got assaulted because they won 3-1 against Ahly…

Egypt needs to step up their security, cause if Algeria wins in Cairo i don’t even wanna know what might happen.

I didn’t even think of Ghezal as right back. Never seen him play there but I believe you. I just remember Felhi as right back against Cameroon.

Abdullah I saw that video a while ago but decided not to share just to keep things calm.

And yes what happened to the Algerian players is messed up, video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb4kv0_les-joueurs-algeriens-blesses-au-ca_sport

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb4lv2_equipe-dalgeire-caillaissee_sport

Thats what happens when you make a match bigger than it is. And the Egyptian Federation head said a while back “Do with Algerians what you want.” Well, unfortunately they did.

Interviews and pics from Maputo:

http://www.mosaiquefm.net/index/a/ActuDetail/Element/8767-Avec-l-EN–en-direct-de-Maputo.html

well the pics aren’t from maputo actually but interviews yes.

Rami did he really say that, where can i find a source for that.

Btw here are some pics of the training http://www.infosfoot.net/fr/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7091

Thanks for the photos, here’s the link: http://www.goal.com/en/news/1863/world-cup-2010/2009/11/02/1598969/worries-increase-regarding-safety-of-egypt-algeria-world-cup

hi guys, welldone rami what a great preview as usual,you never left a stone unturned which gives us more insight,lots of ppl talking about how strong team mozambique (who?) ohh sorry i hear you >mozambique alright ok lol,btw i am not been disrespectfull or anything but in reality when did mozambique started playing football & what a name have they got in africa or world level even their league is hardly noticed on any stage! guys lets not kid ourselves, we are streets ahead of them in every level, but tunisians unfortunatley have this phobia of making up kenya into dangerous team,botswana a sleeping giant etc…that is why we perform the way we do somtimes,we have to be realistic and play to our potential simpley cos we r among the best in africa on every level,so lets get our heads right.we should win inshaa allah.otherwise we should turn to rugby or sumtin else.lol

I don’t like egyptians, i almost “hate” them, because they are bid-headed they think they’re always the best, in their way of talking too

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Skander, let’s not go so far please. Let’s stick to the issues if you want to get into the egypt situation. It’s a security problem and there’s a precedent for it but let’s not make it personal.

Slah, thank you man and I agree with your assessment but the worry is that on one match anything can happen so we need to be prudent. If we were playing them in a seven game series like the NBA finals I wouldn’t worry because the better team almost always wins those but one match is tricky. We’re still favorites though and I think we’ll rise to the occassion inshallah.

What a cute picture, Mozambicans are a welcoming people and reports from Maputo says our players have been well received: http://www.infosfoot.net/fr/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7151

Rami: just a small correction, Zaher never said that statement, it was made up by the algerian media and he denied it totally…..thanks

good luck for Tunisia isa

football holigans all over the world this days but unfortunatley in the arab world its called backwardsness its ignorance too, we have that in tunisia too among ourselves same blood ppl,its crazy man,but its not love for football its actually hate and racism and the feeling of superiority against the other.its only a game of football for gods sake,yeah remember wot they did to etoile when they won d final there,i think they should be barred from hosting any major games in future.but that will never happen cos we know who runs the caf.lol

Tamim, fair enough buddy. It’s true that I only saw it in Algerian media besides for Goal.com so its quite possible its fake. Thanks for your support. I’ll be interested to see how things transpire on your end after today. Any early word? Is the match still going to be played?

reports said that FIFA isn’t even involved yet in the issues, also primary investigations and bus’ driver said that the windows were broken from inside and thatthey assaulted the driver!!!!!!

Well inshallah we will win and if we do then there’s a big party for us
We just cannot underestimate Mocambique…
Well I hope the line-up will be a good one and inshallah Chahed and Souissi will be okay, so at least one of them can play on saturday…
However I’m still scared that we might play as bad as we did against Kenya, we really need to focus cause if we do we might beat any team in the entire world but if we don’t focus, we might lose against any team in the world, we are that kind of team, a very unpredictable team..
So it’s (as we already knew) win everything or lose everything, play very well or risk to lose the world cup ticket, inshallah everything will go as Coelho has planned for the team we are all behind their backs from the beginning to the end and we will shall never give up on our team! Tunisie ya Tunisie, m3ak Rabbie wa enibi! <3

Ben Khalifa goes from strength to strength, into the final with Switzerland. Draws a penalty and red card, scores the peno, beautiful assist on the second, and provoked the fourth. He’s killing it: http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=253825/match=300102256/index.html

Swiss would be crazy not to select Ben Khalifa for SA 2010. Even at 17 he has more talent than any plays available to the Swiss

BEN KAHLIFA: PLEASE PLAY FOR TUNISIA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope he changes his mind!

Coelho is testing many different formations in there trainings. One is with Jemaa- Allagui up front with Bensaada behind them as we see in this photo.
http://www.infosfoot.net/fr/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7125

Here he is got Khallfallah Bensaad Dhouadi, but i know that will not be our 3 offensive middies cause Darragi has to start!!
http://www.infosfoot.net/fr/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=7141

Thanks for the photos, looks like our guys are having a great time!!

Nice Video Rami, For those who did not see it, you cant miss it! I just love Behija. She gave me goosebumps about the match and telling everyone to play “hoojoom, hoojoom, hoojoom” Thats the only way we will win!!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=102876559731457&ref=nf

Hi Guys, i am Nigerian and conceede that Tunisia has a greater chance to qualify. However i am praying that your team chokes in Mozambique. that is tha score and i am sure that your young team will be full of nerves in maputo, and them the mambas won’t make it easy. The eagles will still need to fly in Nairobi though. Overall there will be surprises in this final round in the three remaining groups i hope it’s in this group.

Come Sarturday you will all (including Mr writer) celebrate with SUPER EAGLES.Tunisia has no business in World Cup now coz they are in Nigeria group. See you in Angola.

I want ben Khalifa to play for tunisia. the guy is just too good to be lost to europe.
I can’t wait to see what will happen on Saturday.

whats up big joke. nigeria no longer has any influence on whether tunisia qualifies or not because theye blew their chance. and if you think that the nigeria we played against in abuja would collect a single point if they went to the world cup, then youre sadly mistaken.

IS tunisia u21 going to play against france u21 today? because i saw a stream in myp2p.

Yup, they play today. go to http://www.rojadirecta.com to check what time. Sorry I didn’t mention this earlier, I read about it a week ago but it slipped my mind with all the focus on our Mozambique match.

Big joe equals little brain? Your way of rationalising Nigeria’s poor performances is hilarious, keep up the good work and i hope to hear from you again after we qualify, promise big boy?

Unrelated but this is too hilarious not to share: http://irishsoccerinsider.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/french-and-irish-fall-out-over-box-incident/

Jawhara FM has a probable lineup up (and lots of pictures). I hope its wrong though because there’s no darragi. whatever the case, i hope we win no matter who plays: http://www.jawharafm.com/sport/component/content/article/35-demo-content/780-aigles-de-carthage.html

La formation probable – Aymen Balbouli, Khaled Souissi, Yassine Mikari, Karim Hagui, Saief Ghzel, Khaled Korbi, Houssine El Ragued, Chouaki Ben Sâada, Fahid Ben Khalfallah, Issam Jomâa, Amine Chermiti

i swear to god if jomaa starts im going to lose my mind. and i highly doubt coelho wouldnt start darragi.

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WHAT? I didn’t expect THAT!! But i agree let’s wait and see first, i have confidence in Coelho’s decission making.

Darragi need to play and that’s it…….
He is the best player in the squad and maybe the best tunisian player that has ever been

Plus that’s three lefties in the attacking sector of the pitch. As Mghirbi said on Dimanche Sport the whole field will start leaning that way but who knows maybe Coelho knows something we don’t… And maybe this isn’t even the lineup.

guys its not a bad idea to let darragi come on later on the pitch..he has proven that he could bring a big boost IF the team is not playing well, but when players like ben saada en fbk are playing good then we have nothing to be worried about.

im glad al jazeera sport 2 will broadcast the match tomorrow:D forza tounisssss inshallah marbouha

Adam I love Darragi as well but best Tunisian ever….

Long way to go before Darragi reaches the heights of the likes Dihab, Aggrabi, Hatem Trabelsi, Hamrouni etc etc

tounsi, what are you talking about Darragi is the one that got Tunisia in this good position he should start and jemaa should not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Inchallah marbou7a

exactly, why should we waste one of our subs. i can guarentee right now that if he doesnt start, we wont play well, so darragi should start and we should save our subs for tactics and injuries.

True he should start but best ever? You mean to tell me Darragi is already better than Dhiab, 3agerbi, Hamrouni, Lahzami, Ghommidh etc ?

Very nice analysis Rami. Thanks

Tunisie ya Tunisie Ohhh M3ak Rabbi Wi Nabbi Ohhh …

stream for the U-21 match http://etoilistetv.fr.gd/DIRECT8.htm HT now and they’re 1-0 behind, its clear how much Dhaouadi and Abdennour where bringing to the team.

I actually like this potential formation. I think Jemaa can preform much better as a second striker. Darragi is a very dynamic and versatile player. i think thats why he may be left off. Coelho might be taking a risk but if things don’t go well, Darragi can be subbed in to fix things.

Coehlo is strange sometimes………Darragi not in the line up is just stupid…………
I would love to see Darragi play 90 minutes tommorrow………………………………
And if he do i think he would score a wonderful goal

The new puma outfits looks HORRIBLE! just look at the shorts, they look like those the sprinters wear, very short and wiide… :S:S

Jamel, welcome to the comments section and thank you

I would’ve preferred Darragi to start but if he doesn’t there’s nothing we can do and we’re behind our team till the end. At least we’re not playing with three defensive midfielders… It could work well. Plus Chermiti is in from the start, that’s important. Jemaa might just give us victory, you never know with these things. Coelho has a strategy in mind and he’s lead us this far, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on this. Only thing is I hope that ball moves around without Darragi in and our passing is on point. I hope to see an in form Jemaa inshallah because when he’s hitting his stride he can score the craziest goals that you never expected.

Abdullah thanks for the link, I don’t think I can catch any of it unfortunately. busy at work.

Actually I couldn’t resist. Nice goal by Ayari! My namesake haha.

Goal AYARIIII!!!!!!!!

Damn Iffa is a monster!

Rami, please remove that comment that mentions God and the “F” word in the same sentence

yeah rachid you’re so right, i shaked when i read it. i could barely read it. A very modest combination of words. :S

Done

i apologize if ive offended anyone with that comment. in the states its used commonly so i didnt think anything of it. i’ll try to be more considerate next time.

I’ll be honest and say that I’m just as guilty of it which is why it didn’t strike me as something that needed to be modded but I promise to be more aware of that from now on so as to not offend anyone’s sensibilities because Rachid and Skander, you’re both right, it isn’t appropriate. Apologies for that on my end and thank you Thamer for understanding.

Meanwhile, Tunisian youngsters looked pretty good against les Bleuets in the second half. I caught some of it. Very aggressive young squad and Ayari, Hadhria, Ifa stuck out from the lot. France did miss plenty of good chances though. Good result one way or the other, with Msekni in the squad I think we would have beaten them. That situation with him and the federation needs to be solved, and quick. He’s too good to be exiled like that.

Thamer, no harm done; I just thought we should be in a more serene mode right now! May the Tunisian can-do-ism shine again tomorrow; it will be thrilling!

Goals from Eaglets vs. Bleuets: http://team-tunisie.net/video+Tunisie+143

With Ayari around I feel very good about the future of our attack. Not to mention Jabbari, Msekni and others. Good generation coming up. Hope they can qualify for London 2012 inshallah.

Ayari is going to be big just wait and see, it’s unbelievable how much young talent we’re producing right now

Nigerian fan in peace…. as a patriotic Nigerian, i am 100% positive we’ll beat kenya tomorow. but the big issue is moz vs tuns. i honestly hope the moz players play at the level they played at abuja. if they can hold thiers for the 1st half, then i think Tunisian players will have to do what Nigerians didnt do which is to dig deep. having said that, i believe the best team should represent Africa and honestly i have my reservations about Tunisia at the world cup. we dont just want paticipants, we want teams who can play african brand.
my predictions: kenya 1-3 Nigeria
Moz 2-1 Tunisia.
please brothers, feel free to critisize me bt no bashings. I’ll be back after the match to congratulate the ticket winners…..

Complete change of subject (mostly to calm myself down as I am about to hyperventilate thinking about our game against Mozambique):
I read this statement on the bbc website by Marcel Desailly.
“When you see the likes of Henry at Barcelona, Karim Benzema at Real Madrid, Samir Nasri and William Gallas at Arsenal, France have big players and plenty of quality.”
Does anybody besides me find it extremely amusing?

why…france does have plenty of quality.

Henry…Karim Benzema…Samir Nasri…William Gallas…if these guys were in any other occupation but soccer, how French would they be considered? The U.S elected Obama as president. Would any of these guys have such a chance in France?

i see your point, i noticed that at the beginning of the u-21 match today. i dont think that they had a single white player, all africans or arabs. w/e, its their right. im sure if they comprised a team of all white players it wouldnt have been much worse.

Here in Kenyan capital Nairobi we are all praying for Tunisia to win or at worst draw in Maputo because we are confident that we have the perfect opportunity to beat Nigeria and qualify for Angola at the expense of Mozambique.We are thrilled that a local coach will lead us today after the arrogant German absconded on monday.Good luck Tunisia.

Thx James. Good luck to all of us.

Bricks! Bricks!

Have just arrived at the stadium here in Nairobi and there is real belief that we can beat the Nigerians.Once again good luck Tunisia.

anyone have a link where i can watch the game online?

i hope Darragi will come in to the match as soon as possible…….and score a lots of goals beacuase boys i’m sure that we will win today a beautiful game……………..inchallah marbou7a………

Tounsi, go in to http://www.myp2p.eu. you can watch it there. id u want better quality download sopcast

Official lineup according to Mosaique FM:

* Aymen Mathlouthi
* Yacine Mikari
* Khaled Souissi
* Karim Haggui
* Seyf Ghezal
* Khaled El Korbi
* Houcine Erragued
* Fahd Ben Khalfallah
* Chawki Ben Sâada
* Issam Jomâa
* Amine Chermiti

Rabbi m3ana. Inshallah marbou7a!

thnx skander.. i’m able to watch the game on al jazeera sport 2 but i dont trust our sateliet the signal could go away if it starts to rain and that sucks haha

anyway thnx, hope to see a great match with blood,sweat and tears as the dutch people say!!

The match started!

News! Please News!!!

its not going wel at all!

Here’s a stream if you don’t have a way to watch the match.
http://www.justin.tv/saudiboys15

How?!?!?!?!

our boys lose possesion too fast and they make silly mistakes

What about the Nigerians?

kenya scored i think :D:D

Goaaaaaaaaaaaaal Kenya!!!!!

I really dont like where this is going, we havent made a single good built up attack.

If Darragi were in the match it wouldn’t be like they play now…..they play like they didn’t play football before

Thx for the link Marwen, but the game is depressing…………………..

Np, Ya is is It looks like the players are scared

I dont get why Ben Saada is even playing, Jemaa is trying but Ben Saada is invisible =S

omg ben saada is terrible..

Players are not scared simply a poor attacking formation.

Simply a chasm between midfield and our forwards, again Ben Khafallah and Ben Sadda fail to bring their club form to the NT.

My hope is we can at least maintain 0-0 until 60-65 minutes than sub on Darragi and Dhouadi for Ben Sadda and Ben Khafallah.

Korbi has done nothing as well! We just need Dhouadi and Darragi in the second half!

Why can’t the Tunisians play like the Kenyans. They are trying so hard.
I hope at half time, the coach puts in Darragi for Ben Saada.

Needless to say, it’s already Darragi time.

Nigeria is beeing demolished, Kenya just deserved a clear penalty and Oliech’s gotten in the box 2 times after that!

I think Darragi is going to go in now Nabil for Ben Saada cause we cannot afford not scoring and giving possesion to mozambique!

Good think Kenya Coach left, Good thing Oliech got called up and put in the starting line up!

Kenya is playing for the African Cup, and we are playing for the World Cup, yet they are putting a much better Effort..LOL

My guess is Cohelo was hoping for at worst 0-0 at HT.

He does not feel either Darragi or Dhouhadi are 90 minute players, Cohelo got lucky as we could easily be losing at this point.

Sorry but Ben Sadda and Ben Khafallah just do not produce for the NT, time for Darragi and Dhouhadi to pull the strings as Jemma and Chermiti have had not a single decent pass to exploit Mozambique.

Credit to Mozambique as they’re no push overs but there is no excuse to concede possession so easily.

didnt i predict that this would happen if darragi didnt start?…coelho needs to start reading this blog, it appears that we know his players better than he does.

http://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=90278
Khalifa news,if you can read dutch.Barca want him!!

Dhaouadi and Darragi have to come in this is very bad from tunisia!

Tahar told him about the blog when he met him briefly in Tunis Godamn, the stress is killing me. I hope we play some football in the second half!

Time for the second half Hopefully they are not scared any more

This is why Africa SUCKS! MyAfricanFootball.com is the only place you can pay to watch the matches LIVE online. They have exclusive rights through some French run company that also sells the feed to other channels in Europe and Asia. In the US we are stuck paying to watch it online.

So I go there to pay the $5.98 to watch the match and low and behold server down, server overloaded, server poo poo… just as it was for the last game in the African Cup last time (that time I got through, but was unable to watch the game uninterrupted AND I PAID FOR IT) — now they are pulling all the P2P feeds b/c of COPYRIGHT, but the A-HOLES don’t have enough servers to even allow you to order the game live — which is why I was watching it P2P in the first place BECAUSE despite putting my CC number in 3 times the confirmation page failed to load…

I can’t wait for the CHARGE on my card — perhaps! GREAT! I pay 3 times to watch a game and their DUMBASS system can not even support MY ORDER. Way to go AFRICA!

If anyone has a link to watch the last 10min let me know! SHIT!!!!!

nigeria 2-1
damn
we have to play better andwin

NOOOOOOO Nigeria is winning We must Score now!!!
Moussa, here’s a link
http://www.justin.tv/saudiboys15

Oh Nvm, it doesn’t work Sorry

We are in trouble…

we don’t deserve the world cup boys……

justintv has NIXED all links due to copyright… woudl of been nice to just pay for the game…

we are out of WC if we do not score… way to go SUB chermiti out…

should have subbed out some of the defunct midfield and just put in 3 STRIKERS and keep the strong defense… just play kickball and score already… no passes have connected in the midfield the entire game.

we deserve it… we are just not going to get it because DEFENSE does not win games, but lack of offense can lose a game.

of course everyone is going to claim this was rigged… and it very well could be. knowing tunisia is level at ZERO with the game coming to a close how much would it cost to buy the KENYANS… i bet they come cheap.

The goalkeeper is whats saving us.
Yes, that club african guy is in now

kenya scored yes….
but what the fuck are our players doing?

kenya scored!!!

My world is crashing

Motherfuck Coehlo

Kenya tied it, and we just got scored on..I think we might miss the world cup
Kenya is saving us

Can we change the rules so tha matches end afer 83 mins!!!!

we are out

We’re out, nigeria scored…

Until we get a manager that understands YOU PLAY TOO WIN THE GAME!!!!!!!

Tunis will always come up short.

Kenya can’t tie it, I don’t think

wow wow wow thats all i got to say, tunis is justtt pathetic!!!

Echhkara wel B7ar.
All of them with no exeptions!!

Motherfuck them all….bunch of pussies all of them. Fuck it they might as well play table tennis. They would probably still suck at it. Who the fuck goes into a game playing defense every time??? Holy shit i’ve never been soo pissed off in my life.

Hard enough to swallow throwing it all away so late but the fact we played by far our worst game when it mattered most is just sicking.

Rami dont you dare write something nice about this one

I think, even if we here in the blog were playing with them, we wouldn’t be losing..

Nigeria are just wasting time, Good luck to them in the worldcup!!!!!!!!Tunis match is over, we are done

i hope coelho gets fired i want to slap him!!

better stay home than going with bunch of pussies. Jem3a, Souissi, ou ras zebbi.
ya3tini ena 3asba illi tfarrajt fil match wou dhayya3t wa9ti.
not a one fuckin game they played good bunch of Fuckers.

I HOPE HE DIES!!!!!

FACK HIM FACK THAT FOCKING BASTARD SUNOFABITCH THAT HE IS!

ZOK OMMU IL KAHBA DINE OMMU IL KAHBA YA3TIH MOUTA!

All they had to do is score a goal. Tunisia just doesn’t know how to score, they are all scared of everyone they don’t deserve to play in the african cup either!

NIKOMMU IL KAHBA DINE WAALDIEH

What the hell ever happened to all out attack??? Holy shit, i should have known better. All my family in Tunisia told me they never watch the games cuz they know they’re going to lose. I should have listened. Fucking waking up early in the god damn morning to watch this shit.

Coehlo is a idiot he should get fired right away……….we should have Faouzi Benzarti as our Coach………………………………….I’m very dissapointed to be tunisian i just hope that Algeria will win today and forget about Tunisia……

WHAY DID HE WANT TO SCORE BY FOCKING DEFENDING FACK HIM I WANT TO FACKING KILL THAT MOTHERFUCKER!!

Happy with a draw 2-2 in Nigeria and celebrating the players and the coach like we did bring Essid min wedhnou. Fuck it I always said that team sucked.
I always said they should change their fucking game. I always said I will never watch them again. But like I said . ya3tini 3asba illi tfarrajt fihom marra okhra.

DINE OMMU IL KAHBA WHATTHE FAK!

i’m not exaggarating when i say i feel like dieying right now.

INSHAALAH HE GETS FIRED!

I HOPE HE DIES

Cohelo got is all qwrong today jut as he did in Rades against Kenya.

Quite sad that whilst we went all out in Abuja for a victory we seemed content with 0-0 until we knew Nigeria were winning in Nairobi.

Was stated time and again that we had to win in Mozambique, that we had to play the game with the mind set that anything less than 3 points would ensure failure. Yet from the line up it was clear we yet again went defense first and that just does not cut in a must win game.

Rather lose playing a quality game than this hit and hope crap.

Victory belongs to the brave, just tired of waiting for the NT too finally grasp that concept.

Balbouli is the MAN!!!! The rest all played horrible, Souissi hope this is ur last game cause you do not know how to play, Jemaa I hope this is the end we will see u in a tunisian jersey, Korbi become a man and stop falling everytime u are touched!!

That’s it guys, they wanted it more then us and they’ve got what they deserved. Total loss. Big big fight in the dug out don’t know if you saw it? Coelho fighted even with a couple of players totaly disaster this.

Its not the end of the world, we saw a game that was exciting and there was a lot of tention in the sky. The vodoo ritual of Nigiria worked out this time great for them and we need to wait another 4 years to develope a team that doesn’t have troubles winning from countries like Mozambique with all due respect.

Better to snooze this World Cup out then go and make a hole nation a shamed like they’ve played today’s match. A sore heart for a couple of days and it will be forgoten. We are going to get a reminder this summer when the World Cup will be played and wonder what it have could been.

hello my Tunisian brothers. i was here yesterday to tell you to forget about beating moz. they play some real good footy. Well, hope to see you guys in Angola for the world cup. Meanwhile, we Nigerians are going to take some rest. phew. you were on top till the last day. thanks for making it tough for us.
peace

up super eagles…up Nigeria…better luck next time Tunisia…we showed u guys there is pedigree and experience in soccer….NIGERIA ALL THE WAY…nevertheless..i thank the Tunisians for making us qualify for the world cup cuz i dont understand why they could not beat mozambique…OMG..this sucks but i cant stop LOL

I’m gutted but I thought I’d be crying and I’m not. Based on today’s performance, we don’t deserve to be at the World Cup pure and simple. Congratulations to Nigeria, I will be supporting you and all African squad when I attend next summer’s World Cup in South Africa.

I love this sport but it can be so cruel.

Did anyone else see the players fight?

Well said Bassem

You look at Egypt and Algeria and they leave it all the pitch, they play too win.

We were really lucky in the first half, easily could have been down at least a goal, that wa the time too make some adjustments and go for the jugular against a Mozambique team that was hardly clinical in attack.

Cohelo simply was hoping too nick a narrow victory rather than earn it. Can’t do that at this level particularly on the road, simply a recipe for failure.

Guys Since fucking Lemerre came in as a coach until today we play with a fucking system of pussies and we never changed it. Before Fucking lemerre we didnt have the best players compared to other african countries but we still played good football and tried our best.
There is Such a Fucking big difference about the spirit of that team who pulled the world cup ticket against Egypt and this fuckers. They have no heart, no spirit and no fucking balls.
you tell me Coelho is better than lemerre at least he let our domestic players play and dont count just on foreign players. I tell you there is no fucking difference between both. they play the same fucking system with the same fucking Idea ( we cant play football so let s play defence and see how far we come)
Fuck both of them. and fuck the tunisia mentality of (at least he is still better than the other) why dont those fucking people get up and ask for the best.
Fuck it man : I will never watch those bunch of pussies. and I more tunisian than anz mother fucking pussz of them and thez dont fucking represent me.

Same thing here Rami, i want to cry but i just can’t, i’m traumatised.

i agree with rami. we dont deserve to be at the world cup if we cant beat mozambique, who, after watching that game, i believe are a better team than us. i dont think nigeria deserve to go either, but thats life. we have a young squad, hopefully in 4 years we can actually call ourselves a giant of african football. anyway, its been a pleasure following this campaign with all of you and i hope you’ll all be around to blog for the next wc.

Man oh man is Coelho in for some heat when we get home. The guy totally bungled everything. I was hopeful maybe he knew something we didn’t but clearly Darragi and Dhaouadi should have started!!!

I hope Coelho get’s sacked today, and Benzarti gets appointed tomorrow, the mistakes he made today are unforigivable.

Tough way to miss out for the Tunisians but I’m glad Nigeria made it instead. Judging by the comments Tunisia played the same boring style they played under Lemerre that I was dreading seeing at South Africa.

commiserations guys…you gave it your best

Well I’ll say this you put Eserance out there even sans any non Tunisians we win today. The style and character of a Benzarti led Esperance is soooooo much more inpsired than the NT same goes for the Chika led CA of a few seasons ago.

Simple don’t care if it’s Spain or Mozambique, you must play too win and time and again our foreign managers just can’t grasp that and neither can our technically staff. Seems the ghost’s of ANC 94 still haunt the NT, we simply rarely take the approach of “this is our ball come get it”.

I cant wait to see what happened in the Tunisian bench, All i saw was Coelho and Khallfallah yelling at each other and some other players and the training staff were also fighting about something! Wonder what happened there.

I doubt that Coelho will be fired now, I think if he is going to get fired is after the African Cup and when Esperance’s season is over and hopefully we will get Benzarti!!

Rami and co. I am terribly sorry for what we had to endure. This is one of the biggest disappointments I have had to deal with in my entire life, but with that said I can honestly say hamdullah. I’m thankful that this is a big let down for me. One way to look at it is, at least its only soccer and on the other hand at least we won’t have to deal with what the world cup could have brought had we played like this. We arent good enough, no use getting angry and bothered.
One by one, our entire Tunisian national team pool (staff included) need to look at themselves and realize what they have just done and come to terms with how competent (or incompetent) they really are.
At this point, as hard as it is to say, I don’t see myself getting involved with soccer for quite a while. Needless to say its going to be really tough for me to follow this blog, more so watch the tunisian sports shows.
Im guessing Ill prolly come back, but again at this point I doubt it will be soon.
I feel like my soul has been removed. But as they say, the show must go on. Again Rami, Im sorry about what happend with the team, but inshallah you still have the eagerness to partake in what will be a great world cup. I unfortunately have just abandoned my plans to attend.
Salam

Benzarti would be perfect but he is not the type too put up with the crap from the “know it all” FTF.

Foreign managers don’t care, win, lose or draw they get paid and spend a few years in beautiful Tunisia. Benzarti will demand to do things his way and that rarely flies in the ever political FTF.

Really don’t know how hard it is too just play your most dynamic players, sucked against Kenya, horrendous against KSA yet we learned nothing from those displays and put in by far our worst performance of the campaign.

There is no excuse for Coelho’s tactics today, he miscalculated big time, why would you let Jemaa and Ben Saada play, then take off FBK for Zitouni, then Bring on Darragi for Chermiti(why not Jemaa?) but lets overlook that one.

But WHY THE HELL WAIT SO LONG TO SUB BEN SAADA!!

it all doesnt make sense when we don’t controll midfield.

hi guys,i think we should cool down first,but i should tell my self that cos in one hand im very angry & upset & on the other thank god that we found out the hard way, as i said before if you are a national team player & u get a bad game once is acceptable but see the same think over & over again,simply u r not fit to put the shirt on,but the roots of the problem lays in their heads they simply can not play football,national team can

Rami and all Tunisian brothers……Hard luck :S:S

crazy last 10 minutes!!!!!

i guess this only increases the pressure on Egypt and Algeria; man, 120 thousand are in the stadium now and 300 million arabs watching; i don’t know if i am going to survive this game!!!

ma3lesh….tet3awad el marra elly gaya isa.

I can take losing, when we lost to Cameroon in Ghana 2008 it hurt but we played some damn fine football, what hurts is this is another disappointing result because we played not to lose.

It was KSA in Munich all over again, poor tactics, poor line up, as if this was the first game this squad had ever played together.

Any success we have enjoyed be it the NT or at the club level comes when we play to WIN, Benzarti led Esperance, CSS confed cup, ESS CL success, NT 1996 and 2004 ANC etc All cam,e when we waked n too the pitch wit our best players and with the mentality WE MUST AND WILL WIN.

That some how dissipated after Abuja, poor against Kenya, KSA and than today’s horrendous display.

hi guys,i think we should cool down first,but i should tell my self that cos in one hand im very angry & upset & on the other thank god that we found out the hard way, as i said before if you are a national team player & u get a bad game once is acceptable but see the same think over & over again,simply u r not fit to put the shirt on,but the roots of the problem lays in their heads they simply can not play football,national team can not make 5 effective passes,basic ball control,simple movements that 10 year olds i coach can do lol,is simply lucky to be where they are & we all knew it.welldone nigeria & good luck cos they deseve it more they knew wot they wanted & got it,for us the broblem is deeper that most think,hopefully they realise & fix it but i doubt it sadly cos i know football in tunisia & d ppl who run it,just cool down guys as allah knows better 4 us.but it hurts not 2 b there.

WTF was that game about? Kawafel Gafsa　would have played better. Coelho decisions not withstanding, the players seemed to be out of it. Anyway, I hope Algeria makes it, and if all else fails, I still have my American citizenship.

We should have seen this coming after the Kenya game.

Slah not that simple.

Football is about tactics and execution of said tactics.

Cohelo section ensured our forwards would be toally isolated , it ensured our midfield would be penned in against a quick, organized and hard working Mozambique.

The reason why we had too start Darragi and Dhouadi was in order to counter Mozambique strategy we required pace to exploit a pressing Mozambique and quality on the ball too feed our attackers be it Jemma, Chermiti, Mikari, Dhouadi etc etc.

Cohelo never gave us a chance today, such a shame since SA 2010 was in our hands.

Taking out Chermiti for Darragi made no sense at all too. Needed those two guys on the field together from the very start. Not to mention Dhaouadi. Ah damn it, it sucks coaching decisions have hurt us so much. But even the players were invisible besides Balbouli.

we probably would have won with an u-23. if all of our players had msakni’s technique and passing abilites we would have won that 3-0. they actually made us look like fools cuz their technique was so much better than ours, it was like playing against a brazilian 4th string team.

There were a lot of bad plays but the play that pissed me off most was when ragued gave a pass to jemaa and jemaa did not manage to settle the ball and got pissed at ragued because he thought the pass was to hard, I got so pissed at him because i could have trapped that ball and took it up field. He was defintetly out form.

Tahar, I share your sentiments exactly! The formula we have adopted simply does not work. Bringing various players from Europe and the constant trying of strategies simply says the technical staff do not know what they’re doing. Unfortunately, everyone, the FTF included, sat on the sidelines doing nothing when the warning signs are loud and clear. There has been a lot of sugar coating, especially in this blog (with all due respect to the great work Rami does). That was evident today by the poor performance of Ben Saada in particular. He really has no business in the NT, but folks on this blog keep telling us how wonderful he is. He is just one example of many failures that we keep boasting about. We need to go back to the basics and forget about these sons of bitches that really do not care one way or the other. They’re just in it for personal fame and better contract deals in France. Were it not for Balbouli today, we would have been humiliated in Mozambique and this is in game they know damn well that we need to win. I am very sorry and disappointed about this rude awakening today, but we should have seen it coming. Sticking your head in the sand and wishing for the best ain’t no way to make it; you simply get your ass kicked. Today, we did not just get our asses kicked, we got RAPED!

nabil ya 5oya i agree with you 100%, but as u know football is built on the four corners,thecnical,psychological,tactical & social,if any of this missing on indivual or collective level then you guaranteed failier,the coach can not tell u how 2 pass or control the ball or make the run or exchange positions or make combination play,its down 2 u 2 use ur intellegence on d pitch,sorry bro but ther was no soul at all,4 me player who can not sing d anthem or ashamed 2 do so,sould not be in a position 2 defend that flag.

wow tunisia got pwned by mozambiqueee 1-0 and thats just sad not qualifying

Rachid, I accept your criticism. Sometimes love and hope can blind you. I saw signs that this was not to be but I my personal desire to see Tunisia at my first World Cup I’ll be attending certainly had a bearing on my perspective. Nevertheless, this is a lesson to everyone on multiple levels.

I need to watch and report on Egypt vs. Algeria so I won’t be putting up a match report on this until later and maybe not even then. I probably need more time to digest this but we’ll see how I feel later.

Thanks to everyone who reads and comments on this blog. You guys make it worthwhile and I would not be doing this without you. We’ll bounce back from this guys, tomorrow is another day and if we learn from this inshallah there is good things on the horizon. But only if we learn from this. Coelho being the number one person who should be rethinking how he appraoches football.

I JUST CANT BELIEVE IT!!ALL WE NEEDED WAS A WIN!! IS IT THAT HARD TO WIN AGAINST MOZAMBIQUE??THEY HAD A STEP IN SOUTHAFRICA BUT LOST THE OPPURUNITY!!I THINK HAGUI SHOULD HAVE BEEN YELLING AT HIS PLAYERS AND WAKING THERE ASSES UP WHEN HE HEARD MOZAMBIQUE CHEER FOR NIGERIA GOAL, THAT IS THE JOB OF THE CAPTAIN!!AS SOON AS MOZAMBIQUE SCORED I STOPPED WATCHING CAUSE I KNEW THE ONLY WAY WE WERE GOING TO QUALIFY WAS IF KENYA WON OR TIED SO I WATCHED KENYA-NIGERIA THE REST OF THE GAME! NIGERIA GOT LUCKY THAT THEY GOT THAT LAST GOAL CAUSE KENYA FORGOT TO GET BACK!!
INCHALLAH WE WILL SEE MANY CHANGES FROM NOW TO 2014!!

First we have to upgrade at manager.

Let Cohelo staty until we are ousted from Angola 2010 and than try too see if we can hire Ben Zarti

1998 was a virtual all domestic squad as was 2002 and we failed miserably at the WC. The likes of Mikari, Ragued have bought a lot to the NT, can’t scape goat foreign based players, far too simplistic.

Again tactics matter, look at what Maradonna has done to Argentina, super squad who have been horrendous.

If Cohelo was hell bent on Ben Sadda and Ben Khafallah than we has better be prepared to run the midfield, which means he must sacrifice one of Chermiti or Jemma for Darragi or even another CM ala Taider in Abuja.

This the top level of football, if you do not dictate the tempo than you are playing wih fire. Today due to the line up Cohelo handed Mozambique the right to dictate the tempo of the game from the first minute, once you do that it will always be an uphill battle particularly on the road.

Tunisia should have went balls out for the first goal, but if you don’t have possession you sure as hell won’t score.

I swear the u21 attackers with Hadhria, dhaouadi, msakni, ayari, jdaied would have scored goals. FUCKING PUSSIES. fuck jemaa, he was afraid in the whole fucking match. i could see his dark face turn YELLOW!. Where’s was the heart and grinta as they say. THEY WERE HORRIBLE. the only players that made me proud was Mikari and balbouli. The only two who showed heart. THE PLAYERS IN THE DOMESTIC LEAGUE IS BETTER THAN these pussies who’s benched in there respecive teams. OMG I’m going to kill someone. But in the end i can only laugh. I mean they looked like a bunch of scared juniorplayers on the field. NO TALENT AT ALL. from now on they should play with these u21 players that i mentioned above, with mikari, haggui and chikhoui, chermiti. FUCK THE REST FUCKERS.

Skander understand the anger bu it’s bigger issue at hand which is another piss poor tactical plan by the manager of the NT It was Lemerre all over again and it predictably we failed.

If you do not get your tactics spot on at this level you’re destined to fail. Now we escaped in Rades against Kenya with such a mundane, lackadaisical approach but a far more ambitious approach was required today against a Mozambique side that has not lost in their house in two years and did not concede a goal in Maputo since the second phase of CAF WCQ began.

Again not just about talent, Maradonna and Domenech are prime examples of the vital importance of a sound tactical pan.

Luck shine on us…….
From the list i know that ceolho tactics will back fire..
Am so drained out, Am just happy that we qualified…..
My opinions will be known later…

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

FUCKKKKKKKKK PLAAAAAAAYYING DEFENSIVE !!! GET A COACH WHO PLAYS ATTACKING FOOTBALL WHATEVER THE SITUATION!! COZ THAT IS WHAT OUR TECHNICALLY GIFTED PLAYERS SHOULD BE DOING! USE THE FUCKING PACE OF JEMAA DARRAGI AND CHERMITI AND WE WILL GET SOMEWHERE. FUCK IF WE LOSE GAMES AT FIRST. I GUARENTEE U THAT IF WE FIX UP THE MENTALITY TO ATTACK WE WEILL BEAT MOST TEAMS ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA. WHEN CHIKHA IS BACK IN THE FOLD HE WILL PUT THE SHITTY PLAYERS IN OUR NATIONAAL TEAM TO SHAME!!!

IN MY OPINION WE STILL HAVE MORE POTENTIAL THEN ANY OTHER AFRICAN TEAM EVEN IVORY COAST.ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE AINT GOT BALLZ AND HEART SOMETIMES.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t a lack of heart or courage was the problem today.

Dutch manager simply tooled Cohelo. That is something that just can’t happen in the penultimate WCQ.

Simple just play your best players and trust them to deliver the required result. Bad enough we took such a negative approach but once we heard Kenya were winning we were just going through the motions. Only when we heard that Nigeria had taken the lead did we even attempt to up the tempo.

Time build around the likes of Darragi, Dhouadi, Ayari, Mekseni.Mouhibi and hopefully Chika. Need to reinvent our footballing philosophy in the NT. negative rubbish needs to end, play to win the game and play real football, FFS we played like we were Wales or Scotland today.

I agree Nabil! I think the players that are age 28 should not be called up anymore since they will be old in 4 years and should build our team with new young talent, Msakni, Ayari, Dhouadi, Darragi, Chikha, Chermiti, Ben Khalifa(If he chooses us but i am sure he wont embarass himself coming here)Chahed, Jemal, Abdennour, etc!

But the veterans we have that really stand out are
Hagui
Mikari
Balbouli

Egypt were saved by the referee today! That second goal should not even be there; the ball cleared the back line a little before that! What a shame! The Algerians did a terrific job and they only made a big mistake when they decided to conserve the 1-0 score. Too bad for them, byt they still have a 50% chance in another game against Egypt in Sudan.

I’m not sure what happened but i was VERY surprised that Darragi didn’t start the match and where was Allagui? I just couldn’t understand either why Jemâa was on the starting 11. Anyway a very disappointing match which just makes you wander how will they play in ANC next year.

As for coaching i guess Tunisia should hire either domestic coach or a coach who’s played either as an attacker or a midfielder in their active career and not as defender like Lemerre and Coelho. At least then they will play more attacking football.

Tunisia got complacent. From all the comments here, it is clear that you thought a win in Maputo was a given. Mozambique are an improved side and are due some respect on the evidence of the games they played leading up to today’s game. They were unlucky not to take points away in all of their away games. And to think that a straight forward win was in the cards for Tunisia was misguarded. The only question today was, will Nigeria benefit from a Tunisia slip-up? And they did. You have to question some of your fans who in the past have commented that this is your best all time team on the back of a 2:2 draw in Abuja. I couldn’t help but laugh, because only then did I realise that Nigeria has a real chance of qualifying. You have yourselves to blame!

What a crazy match in Egypte. I had a lot of fun in mind at the begining of the day to watch this match after our own match but that was taken away, during the match my mind was still in maputo

Still thinking about the match and i am going to wake up with it. I need some time to digest this lose. Realy if we played our hearts out then i would have more peace with this but this you guys………

The most hurtfull thing is that we have to wait another 4 years to another worldcup….. now this going to take a while. Well enough time to think about this one.

Guys do you think we should try it out with an Tunisian coach? Whats your opinion. Lets comment on the match tomorrow and the day after, we are to emotional to comment about the match…..

Hi all From Brazil,

Well just be glad we did not make it to the worldcup, because it was clear we are not supposed to be there with the current team and tactics.

THIS IS A WAKEUP CALL!!!

We were toooo arrogant and we do not have THE WINNERS MENTALITY. LOOK AT EGYPT basically with local players they play attacking football and do not have any complex what so ever. As we are alway bitching that we need players in the european league always finding an excuse

Twensa seem to lost this glaiib a long time ago since 1978.

FACT is Nigeria deserves to go they won their mathes and we did not. FTF has a loot of cleanup to do.

Mabrouk Limasr they palyed Excellent, if we were to score two goals we would have never managed to do that.

@james you gave yourself false hope hope that kenya will beat nigeria but at the end Kenya won’t even play at the nation cup.

This was ticket that the Tunisian had in their hand, but they blow it.
my question is why didn’t the coach stick with the tried and trusted 4-5-1?? I guess he counldn’t handle the pressure.

Can I commiserate with you my Tunisian brothers. Having watched your team, I believe you did not qualify for the following reasons:

[1] Your team is too cautious
[2] Tunisia plays very much like a European team, defenmding soundly but lacking in flair
[3] Your players appear to lack the confidence to attack
[4] That 2-2 draw in Abuja lulled the team into a false sense of security
[5] Your defence is suepect. I only really trust Haggui at the back
[6] You need a playmaker in the middle of the park
[7] Mozambique are a good team. It appears you underated them
[8] Given that Ivory Coast and Nigeria could not beat Mozambique in Maputo, I did not expect Tunisia to either
[9] I am sure most neutrals would rather Nigeria go to the World Cup because Tunisia always chokes. Nigeria is more likely to represent Africa better. I get the impression that the likes of Mozambique and Kenya were happier to see Nigeria top the group
[10] In all fairness to Tunisia, this was a hard group. You may have qualified had you been in an easier group.

Re.. NIGERIA GOT LUCKY THAT THEY GOT THAT LAST GOAL CAUSE KENYA FORGOT TO GET BACK!!(By Achraf)
WTF..NIGERIA deserves the spot 100%, check the tables again to know, they had highest gaols in the group and never lost a game, they worked had at trailing Tunisia only as a result of an early away draw against Mozambique.
Whereas TUNISIA LOST at the same Maputo.

AYo, think your over rated your self with the post, hard group??? With all respect this wasn’t a hard group. The only compatator of Tunisia was Nigiria so leave all the gibberish to your self please. I don’t think that we underrated Mozambique at all, every one was on guard for them. I agree with you that we need some one in the middle that can devide the game and controle the ball more offent.

But the rest Ayo no. If you don’t qualify you don’t deserve to go to a World Cup, besides that don’t see the Nigirians go further in a world cup with these nations, poor team poor players. Hopes for Ivory and Ghana but further don’t think other African Nations are ready to compete in a World cup.

1. tunisia cant play under high pressure
2. tunisia play like cowards
3. tunisia doesnt know how to create danger with a strategy
4. tunisia have a big mouth but they throwing stones without their hands
5. tunisia needs a TUNISIAN COACH

i feel really bad but i kind of dont care also..it was a big shame:)

We have too be honest this has been on the cards for quite a long time.

Really had the opportunity to push the NT to another level after our 2004 ANC success but we failed to take it. Finally won the ANC, ghost of 1994 was finally exorcised, the era of cautious football should have been dead and buried after that.

Yet nearly six years later despite some genuine quality at our disposal we still have a manager and an FTF that refuse to embark n path of real success.

Real success is not simply qualifying for the WC or reaching the qt finals of the ANC but rather wining the ANC and making a real impact on the World stage i,e WC and confederation cup.

Hate all we want but I truly feel there is a lottttt we can learn from the Egyptian mentality and footballing philosophy.

Hard luck to our Tunisian brothers, from your Egyptian brothers.

How did you guys lose to Mozambique? And then you say you have a good team. Face it Nigeria is a better team than Tunisia…

Honestly how could they let the ticket slip away from there hands like that?? why the hell did they play so cautiously? and like other pll said why didnt daragi start? why did jomaa start? We can hold nigeria to a 2-2 draw in abuja and almost beat them but we cant beat mozambique? seriously? whatever man, im done supporting tunisia for a while, im not gonna even gonna bother watching the ACN… im just gonna root for some european country like everybody else…..

Cohelo tried to get to cute for his own good.

Simply wanted to keep it at 0-0 until at least HT, when we heard Kenya were winning he simply sat on his hands and assumed we would qualify regardless of the happenings in Maputo. Only when Nigeria took the lead did we see any sense of urgency against Mozambique. At that it was too late as Mozambique had all the momentum and we had only roughly 20 minutes to find a decisive match winner.

Cohelo and the FTF deserve the axe, you simply do not walk into a must win games and not start you’re most lethal and dynamic players i.e Darragi and Dhaouadi. Sick to death with this cautious philosophy that is embedded into our NT, we truly do not deserve to qualify for another WC until this cowardly, self defeating approach is extinguished.

Once we’re ousted from Angola 2010. we can send Cohelo on his way and put all our efforts into hiring a manager with character, imagination and some balls i.e Ben Zarti. I know nothing can guarantee success but Tunisians would rather lose playing real football than be humiliated as we were in Maputo.

Great day for Nigerian football! Even then, I feel some sympathy towards Tunisia. Forget that Nigeria won today……the real problem for Tunisia was in Maputo. I had always felt that we still had a chance of qualifying since I expected Mozambique to do well at home. What I wasn’t sure of was our ability to actually win in Nairobi. In the end we barely did. And I was a bit surprised that Tunisia lost, even if I had not been expecting them to win.

The fact is that Mozambique has a really good team…..period! All the anger I’ve seen on this blog neglects to acknowledge this! Not Senegal, nor Cote d’Ivoire, nor Nigeria have won in that stadium in the last 2 years, and there was still so much optimism among Tunisian fans. In addition to having a really good team, that Maputo stadium is also a potential banana peel for any visiting team. I don’t know the prevailing conditions there during yesterday’s game, but when we played there earlier this year, not only did our players struggle on that artificial surface, there were also high winds that made it very difficult to play there. And the Mozambicans have mastered the art of playing on that turf. So don’t be too hard on your team…….they gave their best, but it seems that Tunisia have just learnt what other teams learnt about Maputo….

You have a relatively young team of high quality. I think your football Association should avoid a knee-jerk reaction. They should sit down and plan towards the future. Coelho may have got this one wrong, and a few players may have had a bad day, but there’s no reason why they can’t bounce back, starting from Angola 2010.

For us, we have to start planning for a good representation at both Angola and SA. The first thing would be to get rid of Amodu! Even though he has qualified us for the WC, in over one year of tinkering the Eagles he has not managed to build a good team formation. We need a higher quality coach, period! I feel for Amodu because this will be the second time that he would qualify us for a WC and not preside over the team at the actual event. In 2002 he probably deserved to go to Japan, but was ousted by politics. In 2010 he does not deserve to go to the WC. Will we perform well there? I truly don’t know. It will depend not only on our preparation and the form of key players, but also on which countries the draw pits us against. Ghana do have a good team presentyl, but I have niggling doubts about their ability against high quality opposition. At this point in time, only Cpte d’Ivoire has a team that I would consider excellent on this continent. Right now however, it’s time to sit back, relax, and dream dreams……. Cheers brothers!

Well said Nabil!!!
Benzarti is the guy I wanted before Coelho came and then I saw some positives from Coelho and started to like him, Its probably because I was so used to a lame Coach Roger “che pas” Lemerre.

Benzarti is the guy that will make them men and take their fears away as he did with many Esperance players!

He wont take them to Djerba to train, he would take them to the Sahara in the mountains and make them run! Thats the kind of Coach I want because I am tired of this same old Bull Shit that we have to deal with “Defense”

Go home Tunisia!! Nigeria goes to South Africa!!!!

Obinna first mabrook bro, good luck in South Africa, make us proud.

Not just about the result, it’s about our last three games i.e Kenya, Saudi Arabia and finally Mozambique. If Cohelo intention was to be ultra conservative in Maputo than we should have went all out to topple Kenya by two or three goals in Rades, that would have ensured a draw would have sufficed in Maputo.

Problem was Cohelo went conservative against Kenya and that ensured we had to win in Maputo. Of course nothing can guarantee success but you don’t sit your two most dynamic players i.e Darragi, Dhaouadi, you don’t start Ben Sadda and Ben Khafallah in the midfield with only two CM’s and leave your forwards totally isolated and allow Mozambique too completely dominate and you sure as hell don’t sit on your hands with just 25 minutes left in a must win game.

It’s no exaggeration if not for our GK Balbouli we lose 0-4, it was a game we had to win and Cohelo never gave us a chance, it was Roger Lemerre all over again and Tunisians can’t tolerate any more of it shit.

Guys, in the first round the right result was 2-0 against nigeria in maputo (bad referee) and not 0-0. we lost against nigeria at 90+2 minutes. So guys I love my NT, I love Mozambique. we gt the balls, we hv a real good team. and in God we trust.

Lionel Messi was right afterall.

Hey Tunisie,
you too jambla mouth saying you are a better team when you always play like chicken at every WC and have been used as a bonus in any group you are drawn. who told you you can win in maputo since your BIG seniors – nigeria, CIV, senegal all came out without victory in maputo? you will smell a rat in Angola that you may not even leave the groups stage. I pray they still pitch you against nigeria and mozambique to come and take your pound in the flesh. arrogant arabians.

Jy what did Lionel Messi say?

Nigeria now needs to appoint a proper coach and start working on the team. Amodu Shaibu is a right joke. WEith him at the helm, that team might as well pass on Angola 2010 and the World Cup.

Look at how pathetic Cameroon were until they appointed Paul Le Guen. He managed to turn the team around and make them a force once again. Kind of similar to what Fabio Capello did with England. He had the same players as MacLaren but it looks like a totally different team.

Nigeria needs a top flight coach like Luis Van Gaal, Leo Beenhakker, Klaus Toepmoller, Jacques Santini, Amie Jacquet, Jean Tigana, Otto Raehaggel, etc and we will see a different team. Who is appointed will be key as to whether Nigeria does well at the World Cup or not.

Back to Tunisia, you play like most North African teams. Very organised, European and cautious but youlack that African flair and creativity. I believe this is why we have not seen a North African team do well at the World Cup since 1986.

If Nigeria can get her act together with a new coach, she will join the likes of Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Ghana as real contenders next year. It is Africa’s time to win the World Cup!

Gio, why will you be supporting a European team and not an African one? I find it difficult to understand why you cannot find it within yourself to back Africa’s representatives.

Everyone in the world knows nigeria has too much talents that takes a credible coach to select the best and that Amodu Shuaibu is the greatest error in this round of qualifiers. stupid amodu was berated by monzambiqan coach even in defeat. it is him that gave this useless tunisians mouth that they are going to world cup ahead of nigeria when nigeria should have qualified 3 games ago.
i m pretty sure nigeria will not do well with their tactless coach who looks told naive and heavy to display any plausible football coaching character. The earlier Amodu goes the better – even next week is too far for him to go. halahalahala

wow ur bringing race into this? lol id rather be arabian, than black…

Hey nigirian go the fock out this blog if you want to say anything dont say it here but on your blog so get the fack out of here.

Gio, if I have got you, what you are saying is that you will never support a black African nation on the football pitch. I guess one must respect your views but at least it is nice to know where ione stands with you.

If you said you would support another Arab nation like Egypt/Algeria, I would have understood that but what you are saying here is that rather than support Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon or Nigeria, you will back a European nation. I wouldlike to believe that most North Africans do not feel the same way as you.

If you are so disdanful of Africa, do you not think one option would be for the North African teams to for a Magrebian Football Confederation or team up with your fellow Arabs to create an Arab one? Personally, I think the earlier option is the better one.

Africa curently has five slots. Fifa should allow you to create a Magrebian federation and offer you one of the slots.

Was watching the Egypt vs Algeria game again…talk about two teas that left every ounce of blood, sweat and tears on the pitch.

Gee…both also retain the services of local managers….

Really hope the FTF is simply purged, need people whom truly desire to make Tunisia the best NT in Africa, we need a real in depth evaluation of why we have yet to make the next step.

Save the odd performance i.e Cameroon 2008 ANC, Nigeria in Abuja last September we’re still the same old ambition less Tunisia on the green grass. Maputo was KSA and the Ukraine all over again, almost 4 years since and little has changed in terms of the quality of our performances.

Heads must roll, need the input of all comers esp people whom are not afraid too tell it like it is i.e Zied Jaziri, Dihab, Chetali, Chiboub etc etc.

Maputo must equal the end of conservative football in Tunisia. Both on the pitch, expectations and accountability amongst the powers that be in the FTF.

Nabil, you have to bear in mind that Tunisia has always played that way. Is it easy to change a footballing tradition just like that? Tunisia have always been a well organised, disciplined and defensive team. You are reknown as the most organised team in Africa.

I really cannot see Tunisia ever playing with flair and flambouyance like sub-Saharan African teams. It is simply not you. Italy will never play like Brazil and Germany will never play like Holland.

nigerian fellows why the need to taunt the tunisians in their time of grief? please leave their site for them okay…if nigeria didnt qualify u wont be here chatting all this…and yes i am nigerian! so guys stop this at once!

Chikhaoui, chikhaoui…

Thanks very much MOD for that timely admonition to fellow Nigerians. I can’t understand the need to gloat, when our Super Eagles only qualified because Mozambique lent us a helping hand!

Up to this match, I’ve always been impressed by the civil nature of discourse on this blog, and even though some of our Tunisian brothers descended (understandably, given the disappointment at Coelho’s tactics) to gutter language after their loss to Mozambique, I don’t think we Nigerians should come here to deface this blog with our own brand of irresponsible language! This in-your-face attitude is what has marked us out for hatred all over the world…..we would do well to stop it!

If you cannot make civil and reasonable comments, please don’t make any comment here.

This was faith, i onestly felt it weeks before the match and told my fellow brothers in the Netherlands that its going to be very very hard to qualify. Our young players didn’t coop with the huge presure of this match and thats not something to be a shamed of.

There where a couple of tacktical things i don’t agree with Coelho on it but who am i? We need for starters to stop playing a defence strategy all the time and start a couple of new tacktical play’s so we can suprise countries more offent. We played very predictable and static. I couldn’t find any midfielder that put his foot down and tried to controle the match and give it balance. Shoots on target where 2. Yes 2 hole shoots on target during the game by Ali Zitouni.

Kenya played there ass off to try to hold Nigiria and they did for severale minutes. After that Nigiria took controle of the match by playing very comfetrable and with surtenty of own players and strenght.

If you take a look of the match in Maputo and analyze the passes that where given, it looks like our players never played on a pitch like that. Balls bouncing of feet, no controle, to hard passes in the depth and no secure factor in midfield.

For me the man of the match was Balbouli no doubt because it could have been worse then this. And worst man of the match was no doubt Chouki Ben Sadaa. A total loss of form and a lack of controle in midfield. I can ad Isaam Jomaa to it but i will leave him out of this game because he was never in it you guys. That guy struggels with his self at the moment.

I try to talk my self out of dissapointment but i realy can’t. Still feel a lot of pain and hurt because we didn’t even try. If we played good soccer and gave our full best in the match my peace with the lose was more oke,but it isn’t.

And to my African brothers over here, off course the hole good thinking nation of Tunisia will be cheering for Africa during the World Cup, me myself also will cheer for the Netherlands beeing born in the Netherlands of course, but also when Ghana youth took the World Cup it made a lot of Tunisians prowed to be an African.

I think Ben Amor is also making a pretty big mess at the moment and will be totaly not amused with this results. But again i will say it again yes:

The way we played our last two matches, the Saudi match and this match in Maputo, i realy realy rather stay at home then be a shamed of Tunisia that humiliate it self during a World Cup in Africa with soccer like that.

Its maby a good thing to not go, so the hole nation can debate and talk for it during these long 3 years, so we can make sure the qualification of the World Cup in 2014 will not have mistakes like these. Because you can bet your ass of this will be a giant topic in every news paper and every cafe in Tunisia for a couple of months till the end of the World Cup in south africa.

To maby players of the Tunisian squad that read this blog I think you better book a summer holiday else where then in Tunisia, if not no problem but expect the full load of critics on your body because you deserve it! People can and will ask you more then a hunderd times for an explanation for this failure.

Nigeria are lucky, no where as good as yesteryear.cameroon and nigeria will fade in the years to come u will see.chikha will become the jewell of africa. Tunisia need to try 4-3-3 with jemma chikha and chermitti or darragi. My point is to introduce a coach with an attacking mentality so that at least if we concede our approach will be the right one still.just look at egypts approach yesterday.they are not technically or physically superior, just that they have that mentallity that “YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STOP US SCORING” and just went for the throat. even tho i wanted algerians to win i admired the fact the pharoes go for it attitude.just wish we could do the same and forget this cautious “italian”approach we have. I stand by my word we have more potential than any other team in africa!!!!

I apologise to all Tunisians who were offended by some of my Nigerian countrymen. Tunisia is a great african footballing nation with a bright future and a worthy opponent. Tunisia made our group the most competitive and interesting and both teams fought to the end with a passion that we can both be proud of.

Assil bare with me…, see what kind of coach Egypte has, see what kind of coach Nigiria has, if you ask me… we’ve got to stop with all due respect to the forgein coaches, stop getting them in to Africa.

Mozambique has a dutch coach that for crying out loud didn’t even achieve promoting to a fourth division or has skills in the Netherlands. He is going to take all the credit of yesterdays match instead of the players that deserve all the credits of this achievement.

We’ve got to develop some coaches from our own countries that carry the same passion, skill and tacktical experience as the coaches of Nigiria and Egypte. A hole lot of more passion to the nation and the flag.

Moha: No problem bro, we will recover from this tragedy but it will take some time. What doesn’t kill you, will make you stronger. I rather have it like this then otherwise. The only thing i see developing wich i am very proud of in Africa is that every compatator and every nation is making a giant leap forwards and can be very hard to play against at home and away. This is something that developed it self during the years. This will make African soccer even better and respected all over the world. We will hope to see this in South Africa 2010. Hope it will be a World Cup to remember for a long time even without Tunisia.

ITS A SHAME THAT CLOWNS WHO ARE PURPORTEDLY SUPPORTERS OF THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL TEAM HAVE POSTED COMMENTS HERE WHICH PROVES THEIR LACK OF INTELLECT AND CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND SIMPLE BASICS OF THE GAME NOT TO MENTION STUFF SUCH AS TEAM SELECTION, TACTICS AND FORMATION. SHUIABU AMODU REMAINS THE ONLY COACH TO HAVE QUALIFIED THE NATIONAL TEAM TWICE FOR THE WORLD CUP. HE TOOK THE TEAM THROUGH AN UNBEATEN RUN IN THE JUST CONCLUDED QUALIFIERS! YET, MORONS WHO CHOOSE TO IGNORE FACTS, ARE FOAMING IN THE MOUTH AND CALLING FOR HIS SACK! WHAT IDIOTS! FOOTBALL IS ABOUT HOW GOOD YOU ARE ON THE DAY. WE WON YESTERDAY ON THE BUMPY PITCH IN NAIROBI WHILE THE TUNISIAN NATIONAL TEAM DID NOT SHOW UP FOR THE PARTY IN MAPUTO!

In the end, Coelho will not feel the same as us, i think he’s bummed that we didnt make it, but he won’t have sleepless nights about it.

Unlike him i see myself waking up each day only to find myself thinking about it the 1st thing in the morning.

The only thing that maybe can make me forget this huge loss is if we win the ACN next year, and even then i still don’t feel like watching the damn World Cup.

The biggest emotion i’m feeling right now is not sadness, not anger, not envy, no none of those are bugging me as much as the SHAME i feel right now.

My only wish now is to sack that bastard, coelho and give the responsibility to a tunisian coach. Benzarti for example but i don’t even think he wants the job because the FTF never let them do their job. I have nothing to look forward too now. He should have trusted the 4-2-3-1 formation in the end.

Other then Benzarti, who are other great Tunisian Coaches that would be available for the job? The only great coaches in Tunisia I know are:
Benzart
Y.Zouaoui

Ayo from the 6o’s to the early 90’s Tunisia was anything but a conservative nation footballistically. 1994 ANC demise brought in an era of conservatism that at the time was very much needed as our football had little to no discipline or organization. It brought a historic era of success as went from a nation that could not even quality for the ANC to one the top nations in CAF, perennial WC reps and finally ANC winners in 2004.

That said football like anything else requires change, the conservative philosophy has run it’s course. We have seen it in our WC debacle in Germany 06, our disappointments at the last two ANC’s and finally our failure to qualify for SA 2010, conservatism is hindering us far more than it’s propelling to the next level, as a matter of fact we have taken a significant step backwards.

Any nation must pay to it’s strengths and for too long we have not, the likes of Zied Jaziri have been trying to get the FTF to comprehend that fact since we were humiliated in Germany nearly four years ago. Clubs such as Esperance, Club Africa nor our youth teams i. U 17 Wold cup in Korea in 2007 play so rigidly, we’re hardly Brazil or Spain but we definitely can play the sort of football that the likes of Egypt, USA, Turkey etc have employed to propel them to great success.

The starting eleven and the subs he made are just ridiculous, how can you trust a coach who made such a fuckup on such a crucial occasion?

I mean i really liked the guy up till this point, i just can’t forgive him for this.

Rami what do you think sack or give him more time, imo opinion he made a unforgivable mistake but on the other hand he has brought a lot to this team, does this mistake outweigh the total efforts of Coelho?

Abdullah, I like him to up until this point! And I think now we have to look at the plus side, This is a young team and has only 3 players that were at the 2006 World Cup (Kasraoui, Hagui, and Ben Saada), So we did change a whole team and were building around Hagui and brought in Younger players that are developing. So I really see improvement in our future, and I really see Darragi, Dhouadi, and Chermiti becoming stars in years to come! Also I like what I saw in Taider in the short span he was with us. We also have great young players in the domestic league with Msakni, Ayari, Hadhria, Ifa, Abdennour, Jmel, etc!

But we really need to find a RIGHT BACK, Souissi is not the solution, he made so many mistakes in the game that were preventable.

So we should not blame all of it on Coelho even though it was his fault and the players in maputo. But I just dont know right now, I think I am going with a wait and see what happens in Angola if I watch it of course!

The one move I dont understand most about the move Coelho did with putting Darragi on the bench, Darragi won you the game in Kenya by assisting jemaa’s goal in March, He scored you a goal against Mozambique in June, He Won you the game in Abuja with his game winning goal, he won you the game against Kenya by assisting jemaa in the first minute of the game last month! What else do you want him to do?
We would have never been in first place without Darragi the whole time we would have been out already in June!

Rabbi yidi wika haw!

Achraf Cohelo outsmarted even himself.

Clearly Cohelo underestimated Mozambique, yet another unforgivable error by him.

Cohelo simply figured 0-0 HT, bring on Darragi, bing, bam, boom, we take control, score a few goals and SA 2010 is in the bag.

I don’t think sacking him at the moment is an option. The best thing to do is let him sing his contract out and not extend it before we lose more money on him. We wasted enough money on him lets not make it more. Don’t know till when he signed, but let him finish.

After the African Cup of Nations we will make an rapport of what he produced untill now and sack him then. Even a coach can make mistakes but, good and bad coaches make a difference between themselfs in crucial times and crucial decision making. And he proved him self pretty damn wrong a couple of times.

So lets sing this one out and wait till after the AC and then we’ll talk further about the coach issue. No its time for rest and debat. We know that we fucked up big time and even players we thought that would produce more didn’t ( Chermiti ) for instans.

What could go wrong went wrong and i woke up this morning still thinking it was a bad dream, but when i saw teletext and this blog again i realized it was defenatly over. Feel sick and can’t get nothing through my stomach at the moment. Tomorrow hit the gym for a couple of hours and beat the shit out of the boxing ball.

Is Coelho fired yet?!

Well said Bassem.

We really have no option but to wait until Angola 2010 is finished.

After that sadly with no WC we will have well over 6 months before qualification for the 2012 ANC in Libya begins. At that time a complete overhaul of the FTF should be well underway, the services a real manager ala Ben Zarti can be retained and inshAllah we can and will develop a real long term strategy to take the NT to another level.

As the cliche goes “the night is darkest before the dawn.”

We have the ability to bounce back from great disappointments ala ANC 1994 and 2002 mess. This latest failure whilst extremely painful is yet another opportunity to tackle the issues that have hindered the NT for nigh on 4 years.

I realy hope that what you say will come true Nabil, i would also like Ben Zarti as coach with maby Zoubayer Baya and Adel Sellimi with him on his side.

Worth watching lads.

http://www.zshare.net/video/684884650a6ae4e3/

Coelho is the man to blame. He is the person who made the misstakes that didn´t take our country to a new World Cup for us. But I still think that Coelho is the right man to coach our Carthages Eagles.

Above I read that many bloggers are furious with his defensive formation, and that he don´t have an idea in how to attack. But if u compare him 2 Roger Lemerre, I think that time will do him well. He brought in the hole squad, a squad that is very young. He believed in his own vision, and said goodbye 2 players like Mnari, Benachour,, Chedli, Jaziri, dos Santos and instead Korbi took a place in the middle, Taider to, Souissi (that can be the new Trabelsi) and last but most important Darragi. A player that if he just don´t psycical collaps can be one of the greatest player in the hole world.

In a few years, when the players have the right age, Tunisia will be a incredible team and probably Africas best. Players like Darragi and Chikhaoui are still young. If Yassine played yesterday, we would probably see a new tunisiann team on pitch. And that´s really depressing, that we can´t play good fottball without our stars. But there is other teams just like us. Look att Bosnia example, without Dzeko and Ibizevic there will not be a World Cup for them. Or Portugal? Without Deco and Ronaldo, they feels like Kenya..Ukraine with Shevchenko..

I can´t describe my dissapointment with yesterdays performance in Maputo. But fact is, we dont have our best players at the moment. When next World Cup is going to take stage in Brazil 2014, Darragi will be 25 years old and Chikhaoui 26. Lassad may be a starting man in the team, Chermiti will also grow up and maybe find the happiness to play for his country. Other players that i want to see more about is the new rising star on the left flank Z. Douahadi.

Cote d’ivoire (that i Think is the best country i Africa at the moment) are playing the last World Cup, beacause without Drogba, Toure, Zokora, Eboue (the generation that play at this era) they will be the same team like they where 7 years ago.

So my tunisian brothers all over the world. Don´t stop hoping..beacuse the future is ours!

Unlucky Tunisian brothers.
That can suck big time. Now you need to see what lessons could be learned and next time INSHAALLAH you will make it.
Greetings from an Egyptian.

You can have Zidane, Ronaldo, Pele and Maradonna but they’re worthless if you do not build a system that caters to their quality.

Cohelo has been too damn conservative, yes we grinned out results, important results against Burkina Faso, Kenya and Nigeria but generally it’s been another Tunisian hit and hope, sneak a result, conservative approach that has failed to take us too the next level.

Tunisians want too see football, My eyes can’t be any greener when I watch Egypt. Pre Sheehta they were boring as hell at the 2000. 2002 and 2004 ANC but via the quality at Al-Ahly built my Manual Jose, Sheehta turned Egypt into an outstanding NT.

Why can’t Tunis follow suit????

We have four top clubs in Taraji, Njem, Afriki and Sfax and unlike Egypt an call upon more quality in Europe, yet our football identity at a national level is still skewed. We’re still built to nullify the opposition rather than taking the game by the throat and trusting our quality too see us through.

A foreign manager does not know Tunisian football, does not understand whom are the elite players and do not trust in our quality. If we’re going to hire a foreign manager give me a Hiddink if not it’s high time to hand the reigns over to a local manager whom understands playing not to loss will not suffice and will almost always fail in leading any NT in fulfilling their aspirations and in the case of Tunis that is winning the ANC and making a real impact at the WC.

Due to yet another conservative approach we won’t even get the chance to achieve anything at the WC and as it stands the odds of us winning the ANC in Angola are quite remote. Need a drastic change in out football philosophy ASAP.

Mabrook Amir.

My word what a game that was in Masr yesterday, just a shame both Egypt and Algeria can’t qualify for the WC. Odds are definitely in your favor and being back-back CAF champs no logical person can begrudge Egypt qualifying for SA 2010.

Can you guys imagine Zied Jaziri as a head coach of national team!!
Wow he would be a mini Benzarti, Jaziri does not play when it comes to his country!

He has a future and we will see him one day coach!

Achraf that would be entertaining too say the least.

Jaziri & Dihab are two men I would love too see have a prominent role in Tunisian footnball. Both say what they mean and mean what they say, both could also not care less about taking on anyone, honest, stand up and fearless men, precisely the type of character we are lacking in the FTF.

To Nabil..

How can ju say that Tunisia don´t need a foreign manager?? Roger Lemeree took Tunisia to their first win in CAN2004?? Tunisia have been brought to 4 World Cup´s in a row..and all those times we had foreign managers..and maybe you can ask yourself why they always have those managers from other countrys? Because Tunisian coaches isn´t so good as you think.

Our strength is the organisation, our team is build from defense to attack. And organisation isn´t something that tunisian managers are tactical good in..do you really think that Tunisian would have been beating Maroc in th qualifiers without Lemerre? So u wanted us 2 play attacking football those matches!? Pleace..we all have to think deeper..they wont sack Coelho at the moment..that´s fact!

Assil,
You said nigeria are lucky, i agree with u. there is always an element of luck in soccer. but you showed that u re naive & blind to say cameroun and nigeria will fade very soon. these 2 countries have youth stars that participated in U-20 WC in egypt last month and you saw a nigeria U-17 side this month reached the final out of 24 teams. Did tunisia participated in any of these tournaments? where is your african future ahead of nigeria and cameroun?
always think before u talk.