Ali Maâloul vs Tarek Dhiab
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.
Tarek Dhiab
Tunisia · 1977–2000 · CM
- Almanac rating
- 88
- Rank in Tunisia
- #1 of 33
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.
The verdict
The almanac puts Tarek Dhiab ahead by 5 rating points, 88 against 83.
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