Abdelmajid Tlemçani (30 November 1937 – 8 July 2020) was a Tunisian footballer who played as a

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Biography

Born in 1937, Tlemçani played for

Espérance Sportive de Tunis Espérance Sportive de Tunis (), known as ES Tunis or simply EST for short, is a Tunisian professional sports club founded on 15 January 1919 in the Bab Souika neighborhood of Tunis. Its football (soccer), football section has competed in th ...

and the Tunisia national team. He is the father of footballer

Ziad Tlemçani Hamed Ziad Tlemçani (, born 10 May 1963) is a retired Tunisian footballer who played for Espérance in Tunisia, Vitória S.C. in Portugal and Vissel Kobe in Japan. He was also a member of the Tunisia national team and scored 2 goals at the 19 ...

. Tlemçani scored the highest number of goals in the Tunisian League twice, with 32 in 1959 and 22 in 1960. He died on 8 July 2020 and was buried in

Jellaz Cemetery Jellaz Cemetery ( ''Maqbara al-Jalāz''; also known as al-Jallaz and Cemetery Djalez) is a large hillside Muslim cemetery in Tunis, Tunisia, established in the thirteenth century. Located next to the bus station, the cemetery is the largest in the ...

the same day.

References

1937 births 2020 deaths Tunisian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Tunisia men's international footballers Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players Espérance Sportive de Tunis players {{Tunisia-footy-forward-stub