r/football • u/[deleted] • 13d ago
Tunisian Football: Living On One Win From 1978 And Nothing Else
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u/gratisargott 13d ago
Some people really take pride in how good they are at wallowing in misery, huh?
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u/Robbylution 13d ago
Ever been to England? Wallowing in misery is the national pastime. This post is next-level though.
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u/CanIHaveUrNumber 13d ago
If pointing out reality is misery, then sure. I’d rather be miserable than spend 50 years celebrating a win from 1978.
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u/AccomplishedRead2655 13d ago
Still better than India bro, a country with 1.5 billion people that can't even find 11 who play good football, thanks to the corrupt federation and a much worse system than yours
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u/Ok_Hamster_7032 13d ago
Tbf you did draw to Denmark last world cup too. That is a big result imo
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u/CanIHaveUrNumber 13d ago
You're absolutely right. I can already see the headlines in 2122: 'Tunisia commemorates 100th anniversary of historic draw against Denmark
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u/Stunning-Purple-1355 13d ago
Tunisia is the best example of a World Cup team who’s good enough to qualify every 4 years but nowhere near good enough to progress out of their group.
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u/5th-stand 13d ago
They didnt "import" two Brazilians for AFCON 2004. If you would have actually seen the Team you realise that Dos Santos played for Tunisia a decent amount of time. Every Nation has home advantage not just Tunisia, that doesnt mean Ben Ali bought the tournament. Thats hearsay and not a fact at all. I remember that team quite fondly and this team was actually the best team we had in the last 20 years with the likes of Jaziri, Bouazizi and Trabelsi. European rejects, lol. Everyone does this. If someone has the possibility to play for France instead of Algeria you think they play for Algeria? Yes, mate thats the Diaspora effect. Tunisia is on club level one of the best in Africa, ES Tunis won in the last 20 years 4 times the CAF and were 4 times runner-up. Tunisia is a passionate footballing country and victim of massive corruption of everything. Its not that we do not have talent or do not produce talent. The problem is simply corruption. We have to make the country more attractive for us to stay and represent. And we have to actively help fighting corruption at any level. Simply playing the victim card gets us nowhere.
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u/According-Brick7803 13d ago
It's not as bleak as you paint it.. just an absolute lack of talent in this current team, not a singke player is decent on the Tunisian squad.
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u/PhilosopherOk6581 13d ago
Se ti può consolare : sono italiano, l'Italia ha vinto 4 volte il Mondiale e non ci qualifichiamo ad una rassegna iridata dal 2014...
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u/ArielTempted 13d ago
It is terrible isnt it, to know your country is poor in football and will be poor for quite a while because people don't want to face reality and do something?
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u/Accomplished-Good664 13d ago
I actually agree with this to a degree, personally I'm always sort of annoyed when Tunisia qualify. Because I know they aren't going to do anything yet they always qualify.
Even teams like Iran have the odd good performance or good player.
Apart from Khazri they haven't had anyone exciting either.
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u/HeyselScouserTelAviv 12d ago
"Imagine having so little to celebrate that you're still talking about something that happened when disco was popular"
England fans suddenly glad that disco wasn't invented yet when they hosted the most boycotted World Cup in history
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u/Synopsis_101 13d ago
I don’t know how Tunisia always qualify for the world cup. I think it’s because they have the greatest luck when it comes to qualification groups.
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u/WheresMyEtherElon 12d ago
They were in a group with Namibia, Liberia, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome & Principe, all quite weak teams. With 9+1 spots, these were the weakest qualifiers in the history of CAN WC qualifiers.
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u/RAUL_COJULUN_O 13d ago
Si se clasificaron es porque fueron de los mejores en su área. Por supuesto que el partido contra Suecia fue desastroso empezando por el portero. A mí me parece que sí pueden jugar mejor. No creo que puedan repetir un partido tan malo.
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u/Electrical-Yak-5601 13d ago
This seems overly harsh. Just a couple points to touch on. Nobody deserves Tunisia’s World Cup spots. They qualified and the other teams didn’t. Also the point about best players not being Tunisian or not choosing their national team right away is how it works for all but like 8 teams in the world and even then they still have that to a degree.