Issam Merdassi (Arabic: عصام المرداسي, born 16 March 1981) is a

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

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. Merdassi played until 2006 for

CS Sfaxien Club Sportif Sfaxien (), known as CS Sfaxien or simply CSS for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Sfax. The club was founded in 1928 and its colours are black and white (Bianconero). Their home stadium, Taieb Mhiri Stadium, has a capac ...

then went on loan to Saudi Al-Nassr before returning to

for one season 2008–2009 and finally he was transferred to

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in summer 2009. He was a member of the Tunisian

2004 Olympic The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group C, behind group and gold medal winners

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and runners-up

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. After managing Sfax Railways Sports, he was appointed manager of AS Rejiche in 2021.

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1981 births Living people Tunisian men's footballers Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Tunisia Tunisia men's international footballers CS Sfaxien players Al-Nassr FC players BSC Young Boys players Misr Lel Makkasa SC players Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players Saudi Pro League players Tunisian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Men's association football defenders Tunisian football managers Sfax RS managers Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 managers {{Tunisia-footy-defender-stub