Attouga
Sassi with Club Africain
Personal information
Full name Sadok Sassi
Date of birth (1945-11-15) 15 November 1945
Place of birth Tunis, Tunisia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Club Africain
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1979 Club Africain 417 (0)
International career
1963–1978 Tunisia 87[1] (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sadok Sassi (Arabic: الصادق ساسي), nicknamed "Attouga" (born 15 November 1945 in Tunis)[2] is a Tunisian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Club Africain and the Tunisia national team.[3]

He played both matches for the Tunisia national team at the 1963 African Cup of Nations.[4]

In a sixteen-years career, Sassi earned an impressive five league titles, eight cups, including three for Tunisia and the Maghreb. In 1972, he was goalkeeper for the African team at the mini-World Cup, hosted by Brazil.[2]

The national team's undisputed first-choice goalkeeper for many years, he missed Tunisia's first World Cup appearance in 1978 through injury,[5] and was replaced by Mokhtar Naili. Sassi earned a total of 116 international caps; however, only 87 matches were considered as A-international by FIFA.[1] He was awarded the African Football's Silver Order of Merit by CAF.

After retiring he has worked as a General Manager for Club Africain.

References

  1. 1 2 Imed Kilani. "Sadok Sassi "Attouga" - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
  2. 1 2 Qu'est-il devenu? SADOK SASSI alias ATTOUGA, Tunisiens du Monde, 7 January 2007. Archived 19 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Faouzi Mahjoub, Le football africain. Trente ans de Coupe d'Afrique des nations : 1957-1988, coll. « Je sais », éd. Groupe Jeune Afrique, Paris, 1988, p. 171.
  4. Khaled Abul-Oyoun; Mark Cruickshank; Ken Knight; Neil Morrison; Karel Stokkermans (3 October 2013). "African Nations Cup 1963". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. Sadok SassiFIFA competition record (archived)


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