33·Legends

Hatem Trabelsi vs Tarek Dhiab

Tunisia against Tunisia. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.

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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.

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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 2 rating points, 88 against 86.

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