Adel Chedli

Adel Chedli
	Adel Chedli and Samira Magroun in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Adel Ben-Bechir Chedli
Date of birth	16 September 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	La Ricamarie, France
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Centre Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1994–1997	AS Saint-Etienne
1997–2004	FC Sochaux
2004–2005	FC Istres
2005–2006	1. FC Nürnberg
2006–2007	FC Sion
2007–2008	Al-Shaab CSC
2008–2010	FC Istres
2010–2012	Étoile Sportive du Sahel
2012–2013	Raja Casablanca
Total
International career‡
1996–2012	Tunisia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:21, 16 November 2012 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 June 2012

Adel Ben-Bechir Chedli (Template:Lang-ar, born 16 September 1976 in La Ricamarie, Loire, France) is a Tunisian football player currently playing for Moroccan club Raja Casablanca.

Football career

He was born and raised in France although joined the Manchester United academy in 1995. After 1 year at the club he earned his only first team experience in a closed doors friendly against Celtic. He went on to join AS Saint-Étienne and broke into the first team in 1996. 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 Nürnberg, 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 Nürnberg first team coach Hans Meyer, an event that the Nürnberg 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.

International career

A French youth international, 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 the 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]

References

^ Adel Chedli – FIFA competition record (archived)

External links

Adel Chedli at L'Équipe Football (in French)
Adel Chedli – French league stats at LFP – also available in French (archived)
Adel Chedli at fussballdaten.de (in German)

[1] Adel Chedli – FIFA competition record (archived)

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