Adel Sellimi

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Adel Sellimi
Personnel
birthday November 16, 1972
place of birth Le Kram ,  Tunisia
size 182 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1982-1990 Club Africain Tunis
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1996 Club Africain Tunis 144 (61)
1996-1998 FC Nantes 40 0(2)
1998-1999 Real Jaén 48 (32)
1999-2002 Sc freiburg 108 (27)
2002-2004 Club Africain Tunis 51 (29)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2002 Tunisia 71 (20)
1 Only league games are given.

Adel Sellimi (born November 16, 1972 in Le Kram , Tunis ) is a former Tunisian football player .

The club career

Adel Sellimi joined Club Africain , one of the most prestigious Tunisian football clubs, in 1983 at the age of ten . From 1989 he trained in the first team and came in 1990 for his first league game. In 1992 he won the Tunisian championship and the cup. He remained loyal to his hometown club until 1996, won the championship again in his farewell year and was extremely popular with the fans because of his down-to-earth attitude and willingness to run. After the Summer Olympics Sellimi moved to the French club FC Nantes .

Sellimi did not manage in Ligue 1, scored only two goals in 40 appearances and was awarded to the Spanish second division Real Jaén during the winter break of the 1997/98 season . Only at the Spanish club did he find his form again and then moved to the German first division club SC Freiburg free of charge .

At this point in time, two Tunisians were already under contract with the Breisgauers, Zoubaier Baya and Mehdi Ben Slimane . He also confirmed the nickname he had "acquired" at Nantes, the lung , in Freiburg. He went a long way, disrupted the opponent's build-up game early on and thus fitted well into the SCF's tactical concept at the time. Nevertheless, like in Nantes before, he had teething problems in Freiburg. He only scored one goal in 30 games and has already been labeled a bad buy by many. In the 1999/2000 season he was able to improve significantly, shooting nine goals by the winter break and thus leading the list of goalscorers. Due to the expiring contract of the Tunisian, he then became the object of some speculation about a change , which culminated in the fact that Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder announced a change Sellimis to VfB Stuttgart without a contract having already been signed. Despite a poorer contract offer from the sports club, Sellimi ultimately stayed with the Freiburg team. In the second half of the 1999/2000 season, however, he only got two more hits.

The following year he had his most successful season with Freiburg. He himself contributed ten goals to the surprising sixth place in the table and thus achieved a UEFA Cup placement with the SCF . The 2001/02 season, however, was another low point in Sellimi's career. He was injured several times, only scored five goals in 25 games and was relegated to the second Bundesliga with Freiburg.

After further long-lasting injury problems in the first half of the 2002/03 season with only three short appearances in the second division, Sellimi moved back to his hometown club Club Africain for the winter break, where he let his career end. At Freiburg he played 108 times in the Bundesliga and scored 27 goals, making him still one of the most successful goalscorers in Freiburg Bundesliga history.

The national player

Adel Sellimi made his debut in the Tunisian national team in October 1992 in a World Cup qualifier against Benin (final score 5: 1). A year later he played together with his brother Samir at the 1994 African Cup . Two years later, at the 1996 African Cup of Nations, Sellimi played a great tournament, scored two goals, reached the final with Tunisia (2-0 defeat of South Africa) and was one of the best players of the tournament. Not least because of this, he moved to Nantes.

However, he only found his old strength after his move to Real Jaén, which also ensured him participation in the 1998 World Cup . Sellimi was in all three games in his country, but scored no goal and had to travel home after the preliminary round.

Although in 2002 he refrained from participating in the 2002 African Championship at the request of SC Freiburg and was then initially banned from the national team, he was in the squad of the Eagles of Carthage at the 2002 World Cup . Once again, the Tunisian team did not manage to get beyond the preliminary round, Sellimi came to two partial appearances (one substitute, one substitute). A short time later he resigned from the national team.

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personal data
SURNAME Sellimi, nobility
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Kram , Tunis