Radhi Ben Abdelmajid Jaïdi is a Tunisian former footballer who played as a centre back. He was previously head coach of the under-23 team at Southampton, head coach of USL Championship team Hartford Athletic, assistant coach at Belgian side Cercle Brugge and head coach at Espérance de Tunis.
Espérance Sportive de Tunis, known as ES Tunis, and nicknamed “Mkashkha”, The Elder of Tunisian Clubs, The Blood and Gold Club and The Beast of Africa is a Tunisian professional sports club. It was founded on 15 January 1919 in the Bab Souika neighborhood in Tunis. Its best known football section has been active in the first Tunisian Professional League 1 since 1936, during which it played 63 seasons, except for the 1970–71 season.
The Etoile Sportive du Sahel, known as Etoile SS or simply ESS for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Sousse in the Sahel region of Tunisia. Their home stadium, Sousse Olympic Stadium, has a capacity of 40,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1, the Tunisian top-flight football league.
Khaled Badra is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Chokri El Ouaer is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Andrea Zorzi is an Italian former volleyball player, won two World Championships with the Italy men's national volleyball team. A 201 cm athlete, Zorzi was an effective spiker who played as an opposite hitter. He was popularly known as "Zorro". In 1991, he was declared World's Best Player by the FIVB. In 2024, Zorzi was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.
The Tunisian Professional League 1, previously called the Tunisian National Championship between 1956 and 1994, is the top division football tournament in Tunisia under the organization of the Tunisian Football Federation. The first edition was held during the French protectorate of Tunisia, the 1907 season, under the auspices of the Federation of Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, and it was played in a knockout system, and the first official match was played on 9 June 1907.
Football is the most popular sport in Tunisia. The most watched sports in Tunisia are football, handball, basketball, volleyball, tennis, and rugby union.
Yoandy Leal Hidalgo is a volleyball player who plays as a wing-spiker for Russian club Lokomotiv. Born in Cuba, he is a former member of the Cuban national volleyball team (2007–2010), and currently represents Brazil after gaining Brazilian citizenship in June 2015.
In Tunisian football, the Tunis derby is the local derby between the two major clubs in the city of Tunis, Tunisia – Club Africain and Espérance de Tunis. The derby is played in Tunis in the Hammadi Agrebi stadium due to its larger capacity of 60,000 seats. Before the construction of this stadium, the derby used to be played in the 45,000 seat-capacity Stade El Menzah.
Faouzi Benzarti is a Tunisian professional football manager and former player and current manager. He spent his entire career as a player at his home club US Monastir without any achievements. His coaching career began when he was only 29 years old, making him the youngest Tunisian coach at the time. He is considered one of the most successful coaches in Tunisia. He usually uses offensive play and a high-pressure plans as he is known for his toughness in training and his excessive anger towards his players and referees. During his managerial career, he was in charge of two national teams: the Tunisian and Libyan national football teams, he was also close to signing with the Moroccan team in 2016 before appointing Hervé Renard.
Henry Bell Cisnero is a Cuban volleyball player. He is 188 cm and plays as spiker. He plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv He was part of the Cuba men's national volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship in Italy. He played for Santiago de Cuba in 2010.
Haythem Jouini is a Tunisian footballer who plays for Dibba Al-Hisn as a striker.
Amir Ghafour is an Iranian volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for Iranian club Shahdab Yazd. He is a former member of the Iranian national team.
The 2014 African Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship was the 33rd staging of African's premier club volleyball competition held in Sousse, Tunisia over 20–29 March. The champions of the tournament will qualify for 2014 FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as Africa's representative.
Mehdi Ben Cheikh is a Tunisian male volleyball player. He is part of the Tunisia men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain. He played with E.S. Tunis in 2012 and competed at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.
Reda Haikal is an Egyptian male volleyball player. He plays the position of opposite spiker. With his club Zamalek he competed at the 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. He has previously played for the Talaea El-Geish and Tomis Constanta teams.
Elyes Garfi is a Tunisian male volleyball player. With his club Esperance Sportive de Tunis, he competed at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship.
This article presents the participation of Tunisian clubs in African and international football competitions. The Tunisian teams are among the best African teams with a total of 24 titles. 12 Tunisian teams in total played in African competitions.
The Espérance Sportive de Tunis Women's Volleyball is one of Espérance Sportive de Tunis club's sections that represent the club in domestic competitions in Tunisia as well as in international Women's volleyball competitions, the club team section based in capital Tunis since the year 1956. Following a decline in results in the 1990s as well as poor funding the club was dissolved in 1994, but after almost 27 years the Espérance Sportive de Tunis Administration Decided to revive again the team in 2021, The team Win the Tunisian Second Division in 2021/22 and gain promotion to play again in the Tunisian Women's First tier League.
