Category: Tunisia

So, we’re at work, and 4PM comes and the 2nd Tunisian match in the African Cup of Nations begins.
It’s the match between Tunisia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it’s an important one for Tunisia.
The football fans sit at their desks working and itching to know what’s going on in the stadium, while the rest of us don’t really give it much thought.

And all of a sudden, one of the guys pulls out a small radio and turns it on loudly for us to hear the commentators announce the first Tunisian goal.
Seconds later, and after a bunch of laughter, the radio goes silent again, only to come back even louder with the announcement of the second goal. Then after another silence, we hear that Tunisia scored a third goal.
A while after that, the match ended with Tunisia winning (3 – 0), a great result that will hopefully push Tunisia forward and raise the players’ self-confidence.

Hope the national team goes on like this and that we win the cup 🙂

Well, the big Eid (as we call it) or more formally Eid El Idh’ha is just around the corner (this weekend), and just like every year, everyone has gone sheep crazy.

The big Eid comes with the end of the Hajj, and is the day in which muslims worldwide sacrifice sheep in commemoration of the prophet Abraham’s story with his son.
They’re supposed to take half of the sacrificed sheep for themselves and donate the other half to the poor.

But in the world of today, this day has become a contest between people on who gets the biggest sheep and is more like a mad eating marathon after which people end up stuffed with meat and sometimes even being treated in hospitals.

I still have no plans for the day, although i’m sure i won’t be buying or sacrificing any sheep.
I’ll most probably be spending it with my wife at my parent’s place or something.

So, i was able to catch the opening ceremony and the opening match of the African Cup of Nations on TV this past saturday, and well i have to admit that the ceremony was quite a really good one.

The music was great and so was everything that came with it.
A very good effort that deserves applause.

The match that followed between Tunisia and Rwanda was ok. Tunisia scored first, with Rwanda coming back a few minutes later, and Tunisia ended it with the winning goal near the end of the match.
All in all, the team’s levels was pretty close and i honestly think they both could do better.
Anyway, the result is good for Tunisia, and hopefully this win will push them forward and give them more courage to fight harder and win in the next matches.

As one of the commentators said during the opening ceremony: The opening ceremony was a great one, and hopefully Tunisia can do a great job and win the cup giving us another great ceremony at the end of it.

Well, although i still don’t have a satellite dish at home, and am disconnected from the world’s satellite TV stations, i’ve heard quite a lot about the 3 Tunisian contestants who are on the LBC version of Star Academy.

After last year’s outstanding success of SuperStar on Future Television, this year LBC hit back with Star Academy.

I wish the Tunisian contestants all the luck. And may the best win.

Bab El Web (a Tunisian portal), has created a special section that follows the steps of the Tunisian contestants. You can check it out here.

So tomorrow is the opening ceremony for Tunisia 2004, the African Cup of Nations.
I expect it to be quite cool as the same people who worked on the Korea Japan 2002 opening ceremony are working on this one.
I’m not going to the stadium, but i’ll surely try to catch it on TV.
The opening match is Tunisia vs. Rwanda.

I’m not much of a football fan really, and i only watch a few world level matches from the World Cup or the Euro, so basically, i’m not going to the stadium for any of the games, but i’m going to try to watch all the Tunisian matches from home.

I hope our Tunisian team does well. I’ve seen them play in some friendly matches lately, and they have the abilities to come out with a really good result. I think that all they need is a bit of focus and more courage to push up front and take the chances needed to score.

This is the official CAN 2004 website.
I love the logo for Tunisie 2004, but i don’t like the CAN site’s design and i hate the mascott.

I’ve just recently started a blog ring for Tunisian blogs, and i’ve called it BlogTunisia.

So, if you’re Tunisian, and you have a blog, come along and join here and then add the ring code to your blog.