Arab soccer regains dignity from former colonial motherland. Tunisia, a former French colony, defeated its former colonial motherland in the World Cup. For the Tunisians, the victory was a mixed bag of emotions, with no chance of making them
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Sixteen strong, but symbolizes the history of decolonization and echoes the complex emotions of the nation.
A whopping 6 of the 11 starters for the game were born in France!
The history of colonization has created a rather special identity. Tunisia was colonized by France between 1881 and 1956, and there are currently 700,000 Tunisians living in France. In this year's World Cup, there are 10 French-born players in the Tunisian squad, and several of them have even played for the French youth team.
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Out of the tournament. Two other players were raised in France and hold dual citizenship.
Wahbi Khazri, who scored the winning goal, was born in 1991 in Corsica, France, and currently plays for Montpellier in Ligue 1, where he played for the French U21s in 2012.
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out of the tournament and moved on to join Tunisia in 2013
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He said in an interview before the match. In an interview before the match, he said: "I wanted to be in the same group as France before the draw and my dream has come true". He added: Every weekend, I try to represent Tunisia in France with a good performance. I also want to represent Corsica because I was born there. I carry a lot of flags on my shoulders, which is great. I am 100% Tunisian, 100% French and 100% Corsican. Haziri's goal against France was significant, and after Switzerland's Breel Embolo scored to beat Cameroon last week, once again a player has kicked the winning goal to beat the country of his birth.
Not only does the Tunisian team have a large number of players who were born in France.
France also often relies on North African players
The French have imported many players from the North African colonies before the mid-twentieth century. During the colonial era before the mid-twentieth century, France imported a number of players from the North African colonies, who not only played for the local teams, but also for the French
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Out of the tournament (Extended reading: why the African Cup of Nations is impacting European soccer? (Talking from the colonial players who traveled to Europe). To this day, players of North African descent are still a common face in the French team. For example, Zinedine Zidane, who led France to the 1998 World Cup, is Algerian. In today's French team, young star Kylian Mbappé, who has scored three goals in this year's World Cup, is born to a Cameroonian father and an Algerian mother. Karim Benzema, who has yet to play this year due to injury, also has Algerian parents.
After separating from France in 1956, Tunisia formed its own national soccer team, which went on to achieve success, and became the first African team to win a match at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Going back further, the 1960 Olympics was the first major international tournament that the Tunisian soccer team participated in, and the team's biggest ever victory was 8-1 in a friendly match before the tournament - against the Republic of China, who participated in the Olympics under the name of FORMOSA in the same year.
The French-Tunisian soccer match was a sensitive one, with Tunisian fans booing during the playing of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, during a friendly match between the two teams at the Stade de France in Paris in 2008. Then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy was gravely concerned and summoned the
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The 2022 match was preceded by the playing of the Marseillaise, which was still booed by the fans, but it did not lead to any more violent clashes.
