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Ali Selmi is a football manager from Tunisia.

In the 1998 FIFA World Cup finals, he took charge of the Tunisia national football team for their final group match, after original manager Henryk Kasperczak was fired after two losses and saw the team eliminated from contention. Tunisia played Romania to a 1-1 draw in that match. Selmi himself was fired shortly thereafter. [1] He has later coached AS Marsa. [2]

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  1. "Archived copy". archives.tcm.ie. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Confederation Cup preview". 5 August 2005.