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Adel Chedli
Personal information
Full name	Adel ben Bechir Chedli
Date of birth	16 September 1976 (1976-09-16) (age 33)
Place of birth	La Ricamarie, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Midfielder, sweeper
Club information
Current club	FC Istres
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994–1997 1997–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2007 2007–2008 2008–	AS Saint-Etienne FC Sochaux FC Istres FC Nürnberg FC Sion Al-Shaab FC Istres	033 (0) 153 (3) 024 (0) 008 (0) 027 (1) 036 (1)
National team2
1996–	Tunisia	045 (4)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 23 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Adel Chedli (Arabic: عادل الشاذلي‎, born 16 September 1976 in La Ricamarie, France) is a Tunisian football player currently playing for FC Istres.

[edit] Football career

He was born and raised in France and has both Tunisian and French citizenship and the hope to pass on the talent of the Chedli's(family) is his two second cousins Skaandar and "Wael" Khaled Ayari who plays in Inter's youth organization respective Skaandar unknown in Stockholm, Sweden. He earned his first professional football experience with AS Saint-Étienne after going through the club's youth system. In 1997 he was transferred to FC Sochaux for whom he played several years in the Ligue 1. It was during that time that also earned his first cap for the Tunisian national team. Before his move to Germany Chedli played for FC Istres. He left the club on a free transfer after they had been relegated to Ligue 2 after playing in 88 games.

At Nuremberg Chedli had a rough first year and a hard time breaking into the first squad, at the end of the season he had played in only six Bundesliga matches and was at times demoted to the club's Bayernliga reserve team. His situation did not improve when Chedli was sent off twice in a short span, once with the reserves and once in friendly against the Kansas City Wizards. After the latter incident in which Chedli had kicked a Wizards player in the shins, he left the field cursing at Nuremberg first team coach Hans Meyer, an event that the Nuremberg press interpreted as insubordination and predicted an early release of the left midfielder whose contract with Nürnberg would have run until 2007. That prediction became true in July 2006, when player and team agreed on a termination of the contract.

[edit] International career

A French youth internationals, he made his debut for his native Tunisian side on 26 May, 1996, a friendly match against Senegal. Due to nationality transfer was not allowed until 2000s, he's entered the team again and been a regular with the Tunisian national team since 2003 and won the 2004 African Nations' Cup with the "Carthage Eagles". He was also a member of the Tunisian Confederations Cup team in 2005 and was a member of the squad at the 2006 World cup.^[1]

As of May 15 2006 Chedli has been capped 33 times, scoring 3 goals in the process.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (French) Career history at L'Equipe.fr
• Adel Chedli French league stats at lfp.fr (French)

v • d • e Tunisia squad – 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Boumnijel • 2 Saidi • 3 Essediri • 4 El Abdy • 5 Jaziri • 6 Trabelsi • 7 Mhedhebi • 8 Nafti • 9 Guemamdia • 10 Ghodhbane • 11 Santos • 12 Mnari • 13 Namouchi • 14 Chedli • 15 Jaïdi • 16 Fadhel • 17 Ben Saada • 18 Ben Achour • 19 Ayari • 20 Clayton • 21 Jemâa • 22 Kasraoui • 23 Hadj Massaoued • Coach: Lemerre

v • d • e Tunisia squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Boumnijel • 2 Essediri • 3 Haggui • 4 Yahia • 5 Jaziri • 6 Trabelsi • 7 Guemamdia • 8 Nafti • 9 Chikhaoui • 10 Ghodhbane • 11 Santos • 12 Mnari • 13 Bouazizi • 14 Chedli • 15 Jaïdi • 16 Nefzi • 17 Ben Saada • 18 Jemmali • 19 Ayari • 20 Namouchi • 21 Saidi • 22 Kasraoui • 23 Melliti • Coach: Lemerre