Sadok Sassi ( ar, الصادق ساسي), nicknamed "Attouga" (born 15 November 1945 in

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) is a Tunisian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who played as a

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for

Club Africain Club Africain ( ar, النادي الإفريقي) is a Tunisian football club based in Tunis that competes in the Tunisian Championship. It fields several sports teams, including football, handball, basketball, swimming and volleyball. The foot ...

and the Tunisia national team.Faouzi Mahjoub, ''Le football africain. Trente ans de Coupe d'Afrique des nations : 1957-1988'', coll. « Je sais », éd. Groupe Jeune Afrique, Paris, 1988, p. 171. He played both matches for the Tunisia national team at the

1963 African Cup of Nations The 1963 African Cup of Nations was the fourth edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa ( CAF). For the third consecutive time the hosts won the African Cup. The format was changed to two groups of 3 t ...

. In a sixteen-years career, Sassi earned an impressive five league titles, eight cups, including three for Tunisia and the Maghreb. In 1972, he was goalkeeper for the African team at the mini-World Cup, hosted by Brazil.Qu'est-il devenu? SADOK SASSI alias ATTOUGA
Tunisiens du Monde, 7 January 2007. The national team's undisputed first-choice goalkeeper for many years, he missed Tunisia's first World Cup appearance in

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

through injury, and was replaced by Mokhtar Naili. Sassi earned a total of 116 international caps; however, only 87 matches were considered as A-international by

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. He was awarded the African Football's Silver Order of Merit by CAF. After retiring he has worked as a General Manager for Club Africain.

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* 1945 births Living people Tunisian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Tunisia men's international footballers 1978 FIFA World Cup players 1963 African Cup of Nations players 1965 African Cup of Nations players 1978 African Cup of Nations players Competitors at the 1975 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Tunisia Mediterranean Games medalists in football {{Tunisia-footy-bio-stub