Ziad Jaziri ( ar, زياد جزيري) (born 12 July 1978 in

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) is a

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n former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

striker. He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the

national team A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...

, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. He was also in the

2002 World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams organized by ...

squad. In addition, Jaziri was on the winning Tunisian team at the 2004 African Cup of Nations. He scored the first goal for Tunisia in the 2006 World Cup against Saudi Arabia on June 14, 2006. On July 14, 2011, he was arrested with former Tunisian international

Hatem Trabelsi Hatem Trabelsi ( ar, حاتم الطرابلسي, Ḥātem Ṭrabelsī; born 25 January 1977) is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a right-back for CS Sfaxien, Ajax, Manchester City and Al-Hilal Riyadh. At international le ...

and

Club Africain Club Africain ( ar, النادي الإفريقي) is a Tunisian football club based in Tunis that competes in the Tunisian Championship. It fields several sports teams, including football, handball, basketball, swimming and volleyball. The foot ...

player Oussema Sallemi for questioning in a drug possession, consumption and trafficking affair.

International career

International goals

:''Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first.''

Honours

Tunisia *

Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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* * 1978 births Living people Footballers from Tunis Tunisian footballers Tunisian expatriate footballers Tunisia international footballers Association football forwards 2000 African Cup of Nations players 2002 FIFA World Cup players 2004 African Cup of Nations players 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2006 Africa Cup of Nations players 2006 FIFA World Cup players Étoile Sportive du Sahel players ES Troyes AC players Kuwait SC players Expatriate footballers in Turkey Gaziantepspor footballers Expatriate footballers in France Ligue 1 players Süper Lig players Expatriate footballers in Kuwait Kuwait Premier League players Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in France Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey {{Tunisia-footy-bio-stub