2007 All Africa Games:


Tunisia participates with a new look team as they prepared through a friendly tour in Algeria
Tunis, Tunisia, July 5, 2007-: Tunisia Men’s volleyball team was ranked second in the 4 teams tournament held at Tchaker Complex Hall in Blida, Algeria in the occasions of festivals of 5 July independence of Algeria in their preparation to the ninth All Africa Games to be held in the same hall 14-23 July 2007.

The Tunisian team which started their active preparation late at the beginning of June due to the involvement of most of the squad in the end year exams, lost to the Algerian B team in the opening 1-3 before having a dramatic improvement to win the Algerian A team which will participate in the big African event 3-0, then they lost to the France Junior team which will participate in the Men’s Junior World Championship in Morocco 2-3.

The Tunisian Men’s team will return back to Tunisia on Friday before going again to Algeria to participate in the volleyball competition in All Africa Games in Algeria. Tunisia was drawn in the Pool of Death in the Men’s competition which is pool B along with the African champions Egypt, the last African championship bronze medalists Cameroon, the last all Africa games Silver medalists Nigeria, Senegal and Botswana.

Algeria which will participate with the main full team was drawn in pool A along with Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Seychelles and Congo.

The Tunisian team squad which will participate at All Africa Games includes: Samir Sellami, Usama El Mahiri, Saif Mageed, Belal Belhussin, Mohamed Trabelsi, Sami Sellami, Saif Eddine Hamam, Salem Najiri, Aman Alllah, Sami Bel Hassona, Tarek Sammari and Anwar El Tourgui.

It is well known that another Tunisian team prepare now for the African Nations Championship to be held in South Africa 15 to 23 September aiming to regain the African title which was pickled by Egypt in the last competition in Cairo, Egypt 2005.

“We had a full Calendar this year which need our manipulation to choose the best team for each event avoiding the over load of the main players,” Said Tunisia Volleyball Federation (FTVB) Selim Ben Yousef. “We are concentrating on the African Nations championship in South Africa which is qualifying to the 2007 World Cup in Japan to regain our preferred title as well as competing for the gold medal in All Africa Games. So we managed this with allowing another team to participate in the All Africa games competition to pick up their best players for the African Nations team thereafter.” He added.

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Tunisia Volleyball Federation (FTVB) Selim Ben Yousef