Adel Chedli

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Adel Chedli
Personal information
Date of birth 16 September 1976 (1976-09-16) (age 31)
Place of birth    La Ricamarie, France
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Playing position Midfielder, sweeper
Club information
Current club Al-Shaab
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1994–1997
1997-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
2006-2007
2008-
AS Saint-Etienne
FC Sochaux
FC Istres
FC Nürnberg
FC Sion
Al-Shaab
033 (0)
153 (3)
024 (0)
008 (0)
027 (1)   
National team2
1996- Tunisia 45 (4)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 8 June 2008.
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 Al-Shaab.

[edit] Football career

He was born and raised in France and has both Tunisian and French citizenship and the hope too pass on the talent of the Chedli's(family) is his two second cousins Skaandar and Wael who plays in Lazio'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 will be a member of the squad for the 2006 World cup.

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

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