Tunisia national soccer team players pose for a photograph before the start of their Group B soccer match against the Democratic Republic of Congo in the African Cup of Nations in Bata January 26, 2015 -
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CAIRO – 26 December 2017: Tunisia’s national team manager, Nabil Maaloul, called Esperence midfielder Fousseny Coulibaly alongside 26 other players for the next national team camp in January.
Coulibaly, born in Ivory Coast, applied for Tunisian citizenship to be able to play with the national team at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
The 28-year-old midfielder never played in Ivory Coast’s national team is eligible to wear Tunisia’s jersey.
Coulibaly spent the last five years playing in the Tunisian league. He joined US Monastir in 2013, and, after one year, he was transferred to play for Esperence. Since then, he had become a regular player at the team squad.
Tunisia’s team is used to grant citizenship to players to play for Tunisia. In the 2004 African Cup of Nations, they had Francileudo Santos and Jose Clayton, both born in Brazil, who led the team to win the title.
The 2018 World Cup draw put Tunisia in Group G, alongside England, Panama and Belgium.
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