Sadok Sassi
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sadok Sassi | ||
| Date of birth | 15 November 1945 | ||
| Place of birth | Tunis, Tunisia | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Club Africain | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1958–1979 | Club Africain | 417 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1963–1978 | Tunisia | 110 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 march 2008. | |||
Sadok Sassi (Arabic: الصادق ساسي), nicknamed "Attouga" (born 15 November 1945 in Tunis)[1] is a former Tunisian footballer. He was a goalkeeper and played for Club Africain and the Tunisian national team.[2]
He played both matches for the Tunisian national team at the 1963 African Cup of Nations.[3]
In a sixteen-years career, Sassi earned an impressive five league titles, eight cups, including three for Tunisia and the Maghreb. In 1972, he was goalkeeper for the African team at the mini-World Cup, hosted by Brazil.[1]
The national team's undisputed first-choice goalkeeper for many years, he missed Tunisia's first World Cup appearance in 1978 through injury,[4] and was replaced by Mokhtar Naili. Sassi earned a total of 87 international caps.[5] He was awarded the African Football’s Silver Order of Merit by CAF.
After retiring he has worked as a General Manager for Club Africain.
References
- 1 2 Qu'est-il devenu? SADOK SASSI alias ATTOUGA, Tunisiens du Monde, 7 January 2007. Archived 19 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Faouzi Mahjoub, Le football africain. Trente ans de Coupe d'Afrique des nations : 1957-1988, coll. « Je sais », éd. Groupe Jeune Afrique, Paris, 1988, p. 171.
- ↑ Khaled Abul-Oyoun; Mark Cruickshank; Ken Knight; Neil Morrison & Karel Stokkermans (3 October 2013). "African Nations Cup 1963". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- ↑ Sadok Sassi – FIFA competition record
- ↑ Imed Kilani. "Sadok Sassi "Attouga" - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
External links
- Sadok Sassi at National-Football-Teams.com
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