Best team of the first round of group matches, Spain is expected to run over Tunisia in style, but no two games are alike.

Colours for the game
Spain: Red shirt, blue shorts, blue socks
Tunisia: White shirt, white shorts, white socks
Current form:
Spain’s emphatic opening win represents the country’s best ever debut at the FIFA World Cup […]

Coach Lemerre says he was right when he made the sitches in the game against Saudi Arabia, though he lost 2 points in the final minutes of the game.

[He said] he had removed captain Riadh Bouazizi and midfielder Adel Chedli because they were carrying yellow cards.
“You can’t afford to have a player sent off,” he […]

An equal game is not a reason to be happy, but it doesn’t give you a reason to be sad either.

Roger LEMERRE (TUN)
It was a point gained for me. I’m reasonably satisfied because if there was one thing I didn’t want, it was to be bottom after the first match day. The first game […]

A draw that doesn’t make anybody happy.

Sami AL JABER (KSA) I’m not totally disheartened. Obviously, it’s not the result we were looking for, but that’s football. There were only two minutes to go, but we just couldn’t hold onto the lead. Tunisia played very well throughout the match. I’m proud about scoring with my first […]

Tunisia’s star striker may be fit in the second game of the tournament.

Brazilian-born Santos will miss their first Group H match against Saudi Arabia in Munich on Wednesday after he was hurt in a friendly against a German select side in midweek.
“He will probably play the second match,” Tunisia’s soccer federation president Hamouda Ben […]

Lemerre will stay coach of the Tunisian national team until at least 2008, the President of the Tunisian Federation said on Sunday.

“We have signed,” Hamouda Ben Ammar told a press conference on Sunday, adding that Lemerre has the option to extend his contract until 2010.
Asked if he was taking a risk before seeing how […]

Tunisia won their last warm-up against a local German side, but they worried because of striker Santos.

Striker Santos went off injured early but initial fears eased that he might miss their opening game in Germany against Saudi Arabia on 14 June.
Earlier, Tunisia announced forward Issam Jemaa, 22, had withdrawn from the FIFA World Cup […]

Tunisia and Iraw were supposed to play a friendly match, a warm-up game for the African country before the World Cup.

Iraq have withdrawn from a FIFA World Cup™ warm-up match with finalists Tunisia for administrative reasons, the Tunisian Football Federation said on Thursday.
The Carthage Eagles were due to play Iraq on June 7 at Tunisia’s […]

Tunisia received a great boost in confidence yesterday, when they won 3-0 the game against Belarus.

The Carthage Eagles harried the visiting defence from the start, coming close to scoring four times before a foul on striker Ziad Jaziri by the Belarus goalkeeper in the 35th minute earned a penalty converted by Hamed Namouchi.
The 20,000-strong […]

Rangers mildfielder Hamed Namouchi will play for his country, Tunisia, in the upcoming World Cup. Though he was feared to not be able to play, he managed to recover and will not miss football’s greatest party.

Namouchi suffered the injury 13 minutes into a reserve match for the Scottish club on 18 April. The Rangers […]