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Revision as of 12:28, 17 July 2010

Espérance ST
Espérance Sportive de Tunis
Full nameEspérance Sportive de Tunis
Nickname(s)Taraji / Mkachkha / Blood & Gold founded = January 15, 1919
GroundStade El Menzah
Tunis, Tunisia
Capacity45,000
ChairmanTunisia Hamdi Meddeb
ManagerTunisia Faouzi Benzarti
LeagueCLP-1
2009/101st
Espérance's active sections

Football

Handball

Volleyball

Rugby

Swimming

Wrestling

Boxing

Judo

Espérance Sportive de Tunis (Arabic: الترجي الرياضي التونسي, also known as EST, taraji, or Espérance) is a sports club based in Tunis, Tunisia. It fields several sport teams in football, handball, volleyball, etc.

It is one of the four most popular and successful teams in Tunisia and was founded on January 15, 1919. The Stade Olympique d'El Menzah is the club's home stadium.

History

Le juif Montassier est le premier président de l'Espérance Sportive de Tunis et Mahamed Zaoui and Hédi Kallei founded the club in the café that gave the club its name: the Café de l'Espérance. The Espérance Sportive de Tunis was officially registered on January 25, 1919. The first president was French, unlike the other Tunisian Clubs who fought colonization and insisted to have a Tunisian president. The first colors of EST were white and green. In 1920, the club hired a young high-school pupil, Chadly Zouiten, who provided the club with a set of shirts with red and yellow vertical stripes. These became the new colors of EST. Zouiten became president of the club in 1923, keeping that position for the next four decades. Under his chairmanship, the EST was mostly neglected, until its promotion into the Division d'Honneur de Tunis (Honor Division of Tunis) in 1936. The EST then reached the finals of the Coupe de Tunisie (Tunisia Cup), but the club Stade Gaulois prevailed. Three years after its defeat by the Gaulois, the EST team won the 1939 cup after beating the Etoile sportive du Sahel, with a final score of 10 to 1.

Between the beginning of World War II and the independence of Tunisia (1956), the EST was home to a selection of skilled players; the Tunis club welcomed a number of Algerian players like Ben Tifour and Draoua. The EST, a "native Tunisian" football club was now a force the French, Italian and Maltese clubs that had dominated football in Tunisia until then had to take seriously.

After independence, the Esperance became the country's most successful club. The club became popular not only because of the titles it had won (the Champions of Tunisia in 1958 and 1960 and Tunisian Cup winners in 1957) but also because of the team's spectacular and aggressive playing style. In 1963, the team converted from its attack-oriented style after Abderrahmane Ben Azzedine became its coach. Azzedine introduced rigorous defensive principles inspired by Italian football.

Noureddine Ben Fraj had contributed great deal to Esperance, known for his powerful headers. Later Noura took his expertise to Saudi Arabia as a manager of Ohud Club. he later returned to take charge of the youth team.

In the 1970s the club has discovered several great local players, such as Tarak Dhiab, Temime Ben Abdallah later Lahzami, Abdelmajid Ben Mrad,Abdeljabbar Machouche, Abdelkader, Raouf El Meddeb, Kochbati, Torkhani, Mokhtar Gabsi, Ahmed Hammami, El Kamel, Ben Mahmoud, Zoubeir Boughnia famous for his powerful shots at a distance, Ridha Akacha, Adel Latrache, Lassad Dhiab and many more. All these players were picked up from neighbourhood competitions in various district of Tunis, to mention few, Bab Souika, Bab El Khadhra, Rue Essouahel Halfaouine the heart beat of Esperance. Not forget Bab Laasal, Bab Lakwas famous for their love of football.

In the 1990s, the Espérance won all possible titles on the continental level: the African Cup Winners' Cup, the CAF Cup, and the Champions' Cup (now the Champions League) and the African Super Cup, as well as many Arab and Afro-Asian cups.

Since the beginning of the new century, the club has not managed to win any African title, but it has often qualified for advanced rounds in the Champions League and, as of 2005, it has been Champion of Tunisia uninterruptedly for seven years, since 1997. 2007-2008 a new era has started with Mr Hamdi Meddeb as president and Mr Tarak Dhiab at the helm of the football pyramid monitoring the heart of the team, Esperance has triumphed over ESS by winning a record 13th President Cup with an excellent manager as Cabral we can only look forward to a bright future.

Honors & Achievements

Performance in national & domestic competitions

Champion: 1959, 1960, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010
Winner: 1957, 1964, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1997, 1999, 2006, 2007, 2008

Performance in CAF competitions

Winner : 1994


Winner :1998


Winner : 1995


Winner : 1996

Performance in UAFA competitions

Winner : 1993, 2009

Performance in other international competitions

Winner : 1995
Winner : 2009

¹titles won prior to independence


Players

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Tunisia TUN Arbi Mejri
2 DF Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Janvier Besala Bokungu
4 DF Tunisia TUN Hamza Tlili
5 DF Tunisia TUN Syam Ben Youssef
7 FW Tunisia TUN Khaled Ayari
8 MF Tunisia TUN Zine El Abidine Soussi
9 FW Tunisia TUN Naoufel Youssefi
10 MF Tunisia TUN Oussama Darragi
11 MF Cameroon CMR Guy Roger Toindouba
12 DF Tunisia TUN Khalil Chemmam
13 MF Tunisia TUN Tarek Achour
14 FW Nigeria NGA Michael Eneramo (captain)
15 DF Tunisia TUN Aymen Ben Omar
16 GK Tunisia TUN Moez Ben Cherifia
17 MF Tunisia TUN Oussama Boughanmi
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Tunisia TUN Wajdi Bouazzi
19 FW Tunisia TUN Borhane Ghannem
20 DF Tunisia TUN Mohamed Ben Mansour
22 GK Tunisia TUN Wassim Naouara
23 MF Tunisia TUN Khaled Korbi
24 FW Nigeria NGA Ganiyu Oseni
25 DF Tunisia TUN Wissem Abdi
26 DF Ghana GHA Harrison Afful
27 DF Tunisia TUN Zied Derbali
28 MF Tunisia TUN Youssef Msakni
32 GK Tunisia TUN Wissem Naouali
33 MF Tunisia TUN Mejdi Traoui
-- DF Tunisia TUN Walid Hichri

Former personnel

Notable Former Players

Tunisia Radhi Jaidi
Tunisia Issam Jemaa
Tunisia Hassen Gabsi
Tunisia Hédi Berkhissa
Tunisia Ayadi Hamrouni
Tunisia Chokri El Ouaer
Tunisia Ali Zitouni
Tunisia Khaled Badra
Tunisia Naceur Chouchane
Tunisia Tarak Dhiab
Tunisia Temim Lahzami
Tunisia Khaled Ben Yahya
Tunisia Lotfi Larousi
Tunisia Lassad Dhiab
Tunisia Tarek Thabet
Tunisia Kemel Zaiem
Tunisia Zied Tlemcani
Tunisia Hamdi Kasraoui
Tunisia Nabil Maaloul
Tunisia Abdelmajid Gobantini
Tunisia Larbi Jabeur
Tunisia Brazil Jose Clayton
Tunisia Brazil Adailton Pereira
Brazil Marcos dos Santos
Algeria Bouabdellah Daoud
Algeria Karim Ghazi
Morocco Hicham Aboucherouane
Nigeria Julius Aghahowa
Nigeria Obinna Nwaneri
Nigeria Garba Lawal
Nigeria Damien Udeh
Nigeria Rafiu Salaudeen
Ivory Coast Kandia Traoré
Ivory Coast Ibrahim Diaky
Ivory Coast Kandia Traore
Ivory Coast Jean-Jacques Tizie
Ivory Coast Edgar Loué
Cameroon Frank Ongfiang
Cameroon Henri Bienvenu
Zambia Kenneth Malitoli
Democratic Republic of the Congo Lelo Mbele
Togo Emmanuel Mathias


Selected Former Coaches

Tunisia Faouzi Benzarti 2009
Tunisia Maher Kanzari 2008