Tunisia went a goal down to Mexico in Rosario on 2 June 1978, then scored three after the break with Dhiab in the number 10 shirt directing them, the first World Cup win any African nation had managed. African Footballer of the Year in 1977, the only Tunisian ever to win it, voted his country's greatest player of the twentieth century in 2000, six league titles and four cups with Espérance, and sixteen years in the national side.
Tunisia legends whose careers overlapped Dhiab's
One rank below: Hatem Trabelsi at #2.
Tunisia's editorial top five: Tarek Dhiab · Hatem Trabelsi · Chokri El Ouaer · Ali Maâloul · Radhi Jaïdi.