Alaeddine Yahia
Personal information
Full name	Alaeddine Yahia
Date of birth	September 26, 1981 (1981-09-26) (age 28)
Place of birth	Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Central defender
Club information
Current club	Lens
Number	5
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000–2001 2001–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2005–2008 2008– 2008–	CS Louhans-Cuiseaux Guingamp Southampton AS Saint-Etienne CS Sedan-Ardennes OGC Nice Lens(loan)	04 (0) 37 (1) 00 (0) 17 (0) 20 (0) 05 (0) 00 (0)
National team2
2002–	Tunisia	14 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 05:29, 20 April 2008 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 23 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Alaeddine Yahia (Arabic: علاء الدين يحيى‎) (born September 26, 1981 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French-Tunisian football player who, as of 2008, is playing for French club OGC Nice.

Yahia has previously played for Stade Tunisien, Guingamp and had a brief spell at Southampton, although he did not play a first team game for the club.

Yahia was part of the Tunisian 2004 Olympic football team, who exited in the first round, finishing third in group C, behind group and gold medal winners Argentina and group runners-up Australia.

On February 24, 2007 Yahia played his first Ligue 1 match for Sedan against Rennes ^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Alaeddine Yahia at Soccernet
• Alaeddine Yahia career stats at Soccerbase
• Alaeddine Yahia French league stats at lfp.fr (French)

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