Ali Maâloul vs Hatem Trabelsi
Tunisia against Tunisia. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Ali Maâloul
Tunisia · 2016–24 · LB
- Almanac rating
- 83
- Rank in Tunisia
- #4 of 33
- Clubs
- CS Sfaxien, Al Ahly SC
Left-backs do not usually wear number 10, and they do not usually finish a season as the leading scorer in their country's league, which is what Maâloul did for CS Sfaxien in 2016. Four CAF Champions League titles with Al Ahly in 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024, the Egyptian league in each of his first four seasons in Cairo, a place in the CAF Team of the Year in 2017, and World Cups with Tunisia in 2018 and 2022. Career record: club career at CS Sfaxien, Al Ahly SC.
Hatem Trabelsi
Tunisia · 1998–2004 · RB
- Almanac rating
- 86
- Rank in Tunisia
- #2 of 33
- Caps
- 66 · 1 goals
- Clubs
- CS Sfaxien, AFC Ajax, Manchester City
Ajax gave him the number 2 in 2001, and by 2003 he was among the fifty candidates on France Football's Ballon d'Or list, a right-back from Sfax in company usually reserved for forwards. The 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, Tunisia's first, then two Eredivisie titles and two KNVB Cups across 145 games at Ajax, a Champions League quarter-final in 2003 lost to the eventual winners Milan, and the CAF Cup with CS Sfaxien in 1998. Career record: 66 caps and 1 goals for Tunisia; club career at CS Sfaxien, AFC Ajax, Manchester City.
The verdict
The almanac puts Hatem Trabelsi ahead by 3 rating points, 86 against 83.
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