It is the Tunisia National football team (Arabic the name is mntkhb Twns Lkr@ LQDM; French: Equipe de Tunisie de Football) is Tunisia's national football team of Tunisia in international football for men since its first match on June 1957, against Libya and ended with Tunisia taking a 4-2 victory. It is a team member of FIFA internationally and also the Confederation of African Football (CAF) across the continent. It is managed by the Tunisian Football Federation, which was formed on the 29th of March 1957, following Tunisia's declaration of independence. Jalel Kadri is the coach the team since the 30th of January 2022. He is accompanied by two team members Ali Boumnijel and Selim Benachour. This Tunisian National team has been referred to as"the Eagles of Carthage The team's colors are white and red like that of Tunisian flag. Its logo is the Bald Eagle. There has been a time of regular Tunisian representation at the most prestigious international level, from 1962 until 1978, and from 1994 to 2008 and in 2014 and beyond. The majority of games have been played since 2001 in the Stade Hammadi Agrebi which is situated within the town of Rades in the suburbs to the south of the capital city, Tunis. It is able to accommodate 60,000 spectators.
It was the Tunisian national team took part in three major football events each year, and was during the closing stages of five FIFA World Cups and twenty games at the Africa Cup of Nations, and took part in four editions of Olympic soccer tournaments. But, Tunisia created history in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, in which it was one of the only African or Arab team to take home the World Cup match by defeating Mexico 3-1 in its first match at the competition as well as a tie against the current champions West Germany, before being eliminated from the group stage that eventually led to the inclusion of another team from Africa at the world Cup.
Following that, the team was able to participate in three consecutive tournaments: 1998 in France and 2002, in South Korea and Japan and 2006 in Germany and Japan, before returning for the 2018 tournament in Russia. However, despite this record, Tunisia has never succeeded in qualifying for the second round of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics.
In terms of competition In terms of rivalry, the Tunisian national team of football plays with North African teams such as Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria. In actual fact it is true that the Tunisian national team has played the teams in a variety of matches, be it via friendly games, World Cup qualifiers, Africa Cup of Nations, African Nations Championship and African Nations Cup qualifiers. Tunisia is among the teams that has had the greatest success in African tournaments, having taken home the Africa Cup of Nations at home in 2004 after losing to Morocco during the semi-final. It also reached the final in the year 1965, hosting and in 1996 at South Africa. The team also placed third during the edition of 1962. It also won third place in the 1962 edition. Tunisian team also took home an award at the African Nations Championship its first participation in the 2011 edition which occurred in Sudan.
The Tunisian national team is recognized by all sports organisations. The team was recognized in 1960. Tunisia was admitted to both the FIFA as well as the CAF as well as in 1978 the UAFA in 1978 and then the UNAF in 2005. The most devastating loss for the Tunisian team was on the 24th of July 1960 in the match against Hungary which was a loss with the score being 10-1. The biggest win was on June 12, 2015, against Djibouti with the score of 8-1. Radhi Jaidi, who played more than 105 international games has the most matches in the most number of games that were played in Tunisian nationals. Tunisian National team. While Issam Jemaa, who scored 35 goals and 36 points, has been the highest goal scorer of all time throughout the time of team. The highest position that the team has achieved on the FIFA World Rankings was 14th position in the months of April and May of 2018 and the lowest ranking of 65th was achieved in July of 2010. 17 November 2020 after having secured a qualification spot for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, the Tunisian team became one of the best African team to be able to qualify for consecutive times during the course of tournament by participating for 15 consecutive times as it has not missed this tournament until 1994 and broke record. Egyptian squad's previous record for consecutive 14 appearances.
