Aymen Mathlouthi

Aymen Mathlouthi (Arabic: أيمن المثلوثي‎; born 14 September 1984) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Étoile du Sahel.

Aymen Mathlouthi
Mathlouthi with Tunisia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Aymen Mathlouthi
Date of birth (1984-09-14) 14 September 1984
Place of birth Tunis, Tunisia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Étoile du Sahel
Number 1
Youth career
1995–2001 Club Africain
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2003 Club Africain
2003–2018 Étoile du Sahel 302 (0)
2018 Al-Batin 7 (0)
2018–2019 Club Africain 5 (0)
2019 Al-Adalah 10 (0)
2020– Étoile du Sahel 1 (0)
National team‡
2007– Tunisia 67 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:44, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11:43, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Regarded by pundits as the best goalkeeper in Tunisia and one of the best in Africa of all-time, he is famous for controlling the ball with his feet and dribbling inside the penalty area. Mathlouthi won the 2011 African Nations Championship held in Sudan. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) chose Mathlouthi as the best goalkeeper in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations held in Equatorial Guinea so he was in the CAF Team of the Tournament. He is known for his impressive performance during the 2007 CAF Champions League by holding many clean sheets during this competition despite being 23 years old.

Club career

From his earliest years, Mathlouthi joined the team's training center in his hometown (Djebel Lahmar in El Omrane), at the "Jeunesse Sportive d'El Omrane", where he trained as a goalkeeper.

In 1995, he decided to leave his training club to join Club Africain. In 2001, he joined the senior team of the team and stayed with him for 2 years. Later, he joined Étoile du Sahel based in Sousse in 2003 and achieved all possible national and continental at the club. He also participated at the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup held in Japan and reached the fourth place after defeating Mexican team CF Pachuca in the quarter-finals by 1–0.

On 27 January 2018, he joined Saudi club Al-Batin on a free transfer. [2] On 23 July 2018, he returned to Club Africain, where he started his professional career, in a two-year deal. He later joined Al-Adalah in Saudi Arabia and then Etoile du Sahel. [3]

International career

Mathlouthi received his first call-up with the Tunisia national football team for the first time to replace Adel Nefzi to play the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification (Tunisia 3–0 Seychelles on 23 March 2007). Since then, he has played constantly.[4] He participated in all editions of Africa Cup of Nations since 2010 and 2011 African Nations Championship.

In June 2018 he was named in Tunisia’s 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[5][6]

Personal life

Mathlouthi married on 13 May 2016. He celebrated his wedding in Sousse surrounded by his family and friends from Étoile du Sahel and the Tunisian team.

Career statistics

International
As of 17 July 2019[7]
Tunisia
YearAppsGoals
200710
200870
200930
201070
201160
2012110
201310
201440
201590
201650
2017100
201820
201910
Total670

Honours

Club

ES Sahel

International

Tunisia

Individual

Mathlouthi was named in the substitutes of the 2016 CAF Team of The Year, but was the First-Choice Goalkeeper in 2017.[8]

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References
  1. "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 4 June 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. https://twitter.com/albatinclub/status/957312306928586752
  3. http://kapitalis.com/tunisie/2018/07/24/aymen-mathlouthi-signe-pour-deux-ans-au-club-africain/
  4. Aymen Mathlouthi – FIFA competition record
  5. Crawford, Stephen (4 June 2018). "Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - Final 23-man lists". Goal. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  6. Okeleji, Oluwashina (2 June 2018). "Tunisia World Cup squad: Leicester City's Benalouane in 23-man squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  7. "Aymen Mathlouthi". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
  8. "Award Winners" (PDF). CAF. 4 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
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