Ferjani Sassi

Ferjani Sassi
Ferjani Sassi at the 2018 World Cup
Personnel
birthday	March 18, 1992
place of birth	Ariana ,  Tunisia
size	186 cm
position	Defensive midfielder
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2015	CS Sfax	83 (10)
2015-2016	FC Metz	39 0(1)
2016-2018	Espérance Tunis	39 0(7)
2018	al-Nasr	8 0(0)
2018–	Zamalek SC	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013–	Tunisia	43 (4)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 6, 2018 2 As of June 25, 2018

Ferjani Sassi ( Arabic فرجاني ساسي, DMG Farǧānī Sāsī ; * March 18, 1992 in Ariana ) is a Tunisian football player . The midfielder is under contract with Zamalek SC and plays for the Tunisian national team .

Career

society

Sassi's club career began with the Tunisian first division club CS Sfax , for whom he scored 10 goals in 83 league games between 2010 and 2015. With the club he was Tunisian champion in the 2012/13 season . He later moved to the French club FC Metz in Ligue 2 . With the club, he achieved third place in the final table of promotion to the 2016/17 . He scored once for the club in 39 league games.

Sassi moved to the Tunisian first division club Espérance Tunis in the summer of 2016 , with whom he became Tunisian champion a year later. By the winter break of the 2017/18 season, he played 39 games for the club and scored seven times. He then moved to the first Saudi division to al-Nasr in Riyadh and in July 2018 to Zamalek SC in Egypt.

National team

Sassi has played for the Tunisian national team since 2013 . At the Africa Cup of Nations 2015 , he and the team were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the hosts from Equatorial Guinea . At the Africa Cup 2017 in Gabon , he and the team were eliminated again in the quarter-finals, this time against the later third-placed from Burkina Faso . In 2018 Sassi made the leap into the Tunisian squad for the World Cup . In the opening game, the 1: 2 against England , he scored the equalizer with a penalty.

Web links

• Ferjani Sassi in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Ferjani Sassi in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ferjani Sassi in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rédaction: Ferjani Sassi signe à Zamalek . In: L'ÉQUIPE . ( lequipe.fr [accessed August 6, 2018]).