Mejdi Traoui (born December 13, 1983, in

Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ...

) is a

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Career

On May 1, 2008, Traoui signed a contract at Red Bull Salzburg until summer 2011. He made two substitute appearances in the Austrian Bundesliga for Red Bull Salzburg during 2008. In January 2009 he was loaned to Al-Wehda for the remainder of the season.

International career

Traoui was part of the

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football team, which exited in the first round, finishing third in group C, behind group and gold medal winners

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and runners-up

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. Traoui was picked by Tunisia for the

2008 Africa Cup of Nations The 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the MTN Africa Cup of Nations due to the competition's sponsorship by MTN, was the 26th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial football tournament for nations affiliated with the Confede ...

. He scored a late equaliser, during Tunisia's 2–2 draw with

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during the first round of games in Tunisia's group D, on January 23.

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* 1983 births Living people Tunisian men's footballers 21st-century Tunisian sportsmen Men's association football midfielders Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Tunisia Tunisia men's international footballers 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players Étoile Sportive du Sahel players Al Wehda FC players Espérance Sportive de Tunis players 2011 African Nations Championship players 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players FC Red Bull Salzburg players 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Tunisian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Tunisia men's A' international footballers Footballers from Sousse CAF Champions League–winning players {{Tunisia-footy-midfielder-stub