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Tunisian former football player (born 1972)

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.

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

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

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

External links

Skander Souayah at National-Football-Teams.com

Tunisia Squads

v t e Tunisia squad – 1994 African Cup of Nations
1 Boumnijel 2 Mahjoubi 3 Mizouri 4 Boukadida 5 Thabet 6 Ben Sassi 7 Trabelsi 8 S. Sellimi 9 Hicheri 10 Souayah 11 A. Sellimi 12 Tlemçani 13 Okbi 14 Souissi 15 Bouzaiene 16 El Ouaer 17 Gharbi 18 Chihi 19 Rouissi 20 Hamrouni 21 Limam 22 Salhi Coach: Zouaoui / Benzarti

v t e Tunisia squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 El Ouaer 2 Ben Younes 3 S. Trabelsi (c) 4 Boukadida 5 H. Trabelsi 6 Chouchane 7 Thabet 8 Baya 9 Jelassi 10 Ghodhbane 11 Sellimi 12 Melki 13 Bouazizi 14 Chihi 15 Souayah 16 Salhi 17 Clayton 18 Ben Slimane 19 Ben Ahmed 20 Jaballah 21 Badra 22 Boumnijel Coach: Kasperczak/Selmi

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