Mohamed Dräger (; born 25 June 1996) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for club

Eintracht Braunschweig Braunschweiger Turn- und Sportverein Eintracht von 1895 e.V., commonly known as Eintracht Braunschweig () or BTSV (), is a German football and sports club based in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. They compete in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier o ...

. Born in Germany, he plays for the

Tunisia national football team The Tunisia national football team, controlled by the Tunisian Football Federation (TFF), represents Tunisia in men's international association football competitions. On a continental level, the team competes under the Confederation of African ...

Club career

Born in

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

, Germany, to a German father and Tunisian mother, Dräger played his youth football with local Freiburg Police Sports Club and in 2009 he moved to the youth department of

SC Freiburg Sport-Club Freiburg e.V., commonly known as SC Freiburg (), is a Football in Germany, German professional football club, based in the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg. It plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as champions ...

. With the club's A youth team, he won the DFB-Pokal youth Cup in 2014. They won the final with an 8–7 win on penalties against FC Schalke 04, with Dräger being one of the successful penalty takers. After being the most dangerous player in the Freiburg youth team in the 2014–15 A-Junior Bundesliga with 15 goals during that season, he advanced to their second team in 2015. In the 2016–17 season, they managed direct promotion back to the Regionalliga Südwest as the Baden-Württemberg league champion. Dräger played mainly for the second team, but he made his professional debut for

on 27 July 2017, in a

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qualifying match against Slovenian club

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, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute for

Mike Frantz Mike Frantz (born 14 October 1986) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career In July 2008, Frantz moved from 1. FC Saarbrücken to 1. FC Nürnberg. On 13 June 2014, he joined SC Freiburg. On 22 July 2020, ...

. In 2018, Dräger joined

SC Paderborn Sport-Club Paderborn 07 e.V., commonly known as simply SC Paderborn 07 () or SC Paderborn, is a German association football club based in Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club has enjoyed its greatest success since the turn of the millenni ...

on a two-year loan. In September 2020, he joined Greek club

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós (, Olympic Association of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number of different competitive departments which participate in football, ...

on a transfer fee in the range of €1 million. On 31 August 2021, Dräger joined

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side

Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English football. Founde ...

for an undisclosed fee. On 2 February 2022, Dräger moved on loan to

Swiss Super League The Super League (also known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football league in Switzerland and the highest level of the Swiss football league system. It has been played in its current fo ...

club

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, with an option to buy. After the loan period, Luzern did not pull the option. On 25 August 2023,

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss footba ...

announced they had signed Dräger on a three-year contract. He joined Basel's first team for their 2023–24 season under head coach

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. Dräger played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the

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on 3 September as Basel played a 2–2 draw with

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. He scored his first goal for his new team in the home game on 5 November 2023 as Basel won 2–1 against

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. On 30 January 2025, Dräger signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with

in 2. Bundesliga.

International career

Dräger made his debut for the Tunisia national team on 20 November 2018, in a friendly against

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, as a 79th-minute substitute for

Naïm Sliti Naïm Sliti (; born 27 July 1992) is a professional footballer who plays for Al Shamal as a winger. Born in France, he plays for the Tunisia national team. International career Sliti was born in Marseille, France, to Tunisian parents. He made ...

, and scored on 13 October 2020 his first goal in a 1–1

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draw away to

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. In November 2022, Dräger was named in Tunisia's 26-man squad for the

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dräger goal''.

Honours

Olympiacos *

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Basel *

: 2024–25 Tunisia *

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fourth place:

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runner-up:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Drager, Mohamed 1996 births Living people German people of Tunisian descent Tunisian people of German descent Footballers from Freiburg im Breisgau Tunisian men's footballers German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Tunisia men's international footballers 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players SC Freiburg II players SC Freiburg players SC Paderborn 07 players Olympiacos F.C. players Nottingham Forest F.C. players FC Luzern players FC Basel players Eintracht Braunschweig players Regionalliga players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Super League Greece players Swiss Super League players Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in England Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 2022 FIFA World Cup players 21st-century German sportsmen Tunisia men's youth international footballers