The Taïeb Mhiri Stadium is a

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Sfax Sfax (; ar, صفاقس, Ṣafāqis ) is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD849 on the ruins of Berber Taparura, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate (about 955,421 inhabitants in 2014), and a Mediterran ...

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. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of

Club Sportif Sfaxien Club Sportif Sfaxien ( ar, النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي) is a Tunisian professional association football club founded in 1928. History The club was founded in 1928 as ''Club Tunisien'', playing in green and red stripes. The tea ...

. Built in 1938, it holds 22,000 people and was used for the 2004 African Cup of Nations. It was named as Stade Henri Coudrec, who was one of the

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notable personalities and vice-president of the municipality of Sfax, before taking the name of

Taieb Mhiri Taieb or Taïeb may refer to: *Jacqueline Taïeb (born 1948), French singer and songwriter *Maurice Taieb, (born 1935), Tunisian born French geologist and paleoanthropologist *Taïeb Boulahrouf (born 1923), Algerian politician and militant national ...

, who was a Tunisian politician and the interior minister from 1956 until his death in 1965.

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