Ziad Jaziri

Ziad Jaziri

Personal information
Date of birth	(1978-07-12) July 12, 1978
Place of birth	Sousse, Tunisia
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	19
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2002	Etoile Sahel
2003–2005	Gaziantepspor	49	(17)
2005–2007	Troyes	44	(6)
2007–2008	Al-Kuwait	15	(9)
International career‡
1999–2007	Tunisia	64	(14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of August 31, 2007 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 June 2006

Ziad Jaziri (Arabic: زياد جزيري‎‎) (born 12 July 1978 in Tunis) is a Tunisian former football striker.

He has 64 caps and 14 goals for the national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup. He was also in the 2002 World Cup squad. In addition, Jaziri was on the winning Tunisian team at the 2004 African Cup of Nations. He scored the first goal for Tunisia in the 2006 World Cup against Saudi Arabia on June 14, 2006.

On July 14, 2011, he was arrested with former International and Ajax Player Hatem Trabelsi and Club Africain Player Oussema Sallemi for questioning in a drug possession, consumption and trafficking affair.

International career

International Goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
.	April 22, 2000	Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia	Mauritania	2 – 0	3 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	January 28, 2001	Stade Municipal, Pointe-Noire, Congo	Congo	2 – 1	2 – 1	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	February 25, 2001	Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia	DR Congo	2 – 0	6 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	February 25, 2001	Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia	DR Congo	4 – 0	6 – 0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	May 20, 2001	Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia	Ivory Coast	1 – 1	1 – 1	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	January 24, 2004	Stade 7 November, Radès, Tunisia	Rwanda	1 – 0	2 – 1	2004 African Cup of Nations
.	February 14, 2004	Stade 7 November, Radès, Tunisia	Morocco	2 – 1	2 – 1	2004 African Cup of Nations
.	October 9, 2004	Chichiri, Blantyre, Malawi	Malawi	1 – 2	2 – 2	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)
.	June 14, 2006	FIFA WM Stadion München, Munich, Germany	Saudi Arabia	1 – 0	2 – 2	2006 FIFA World Cup

External links

• Ziad Jaziri at National-Football-Teams.com
• Player profile (French)