Skander Souayah

Skander Souayah
Personal information
Full name Skander Souayah
Date of birth (1972-11-20) 20 November 1972 (age 52)
Place of birth Sfax, Tunisia
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–2001 CS Sfaxien 253 (28)
1999–2000 → Al Ain FC (loan)
2001–2005 Espérance Tunis 22 (4)
Total 275 (32)
International career
1994–2002 Tunisia 38 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Skander Souayah (Arabic: إسكندر السويح) (born 20 November 1972) is a Tunisian former football player who played for CS Sfaxien and Espérance Tunis.

He played for the Tunisia national football team, including at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored the only Tunisian goal of the competition from a penalty kick in the match against Romania.[1]

Souayah received a six-month ban from FIFA's Disciplinary Committee following his positive doping test in March 2002.[2]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 31 December 1993 Accra Sports Stadium, Accra  Ghana 1–1 1–1 Friendly
2 8 February 1994 Ta' Qali National Stadium, Attard  Malta 1–0 1–1 Rothmans International Tournament
3 6 October 1996 Stade El Menzah, Tunis  Sierra Leone 2–0 2–0 1998 African Cup of Nations qualification
4 7 August 1997 Stade El Menzah, Tunis  Zambia 2–0 3–1 1997 LG Cup
5 9 August 1997 Stade El Menzah, Tunis  Nigeria 1–0 2–0 1997 LG Cup final
6 17 August 1997 Stade El Menzah, Tunis  Namibia 2–0 4–0 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
7 26 June 1998 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France  Romania 1–0 1–1 1998 FIFA World Cup

References

  1. ^ Skander Souayah – FIFA competition record (archived)
  2. ^ "Doping - Skander Souayah (Tunisia) banned for 6 months". FIFA. 23 July 2002. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2009.

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