- Karim Haggui
Football player infobox| playername= Karim Haggui
fullname = Karim Haggui
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1984|1|20
cityofbirth =Kasserine
countryofbirth =Tunisia
height = height|m=1.90
currentclub = Bayer Leverkusen
clubnumber = 2
position = Defender
youthyears = 1998–2000
2000–2003
youthclubs =AS Kasserine Etoile du Sahel
years = 2003–2004
2004–2006
2006–
clubs =Etoile du Sahel RC Strasbourg
Bayer Leverkusen
caps(goals) =
43 (2)
51 (3)
nationalyears = 2003–
nationalteam = Tunisia
nationalcaps(goals) = 44 (5)
pcupdate =September 29 2008
ntupdate =September 29 2008 Karim Haggui ( _ar. كريم حقي) (born
January 20 ,1984 ) is aTunisia n football defender who plays for Bayer Leverkusen.He was born in
Kasserine and started his career in 1998 at local clubAS Kasserine before moving toEtoile du Sahel two years later. He started his professional career at the latter club in 2003 and spent one more season with them before moving to French club Racing Strasbourg. He spent two seasons with Strasbourg, appearing in a total of 43Ligue 1 matches and scoring two goals for the club in the league before leaving it for German Bundesliga sideBayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2006 following their relegation toLigue 2 . He made his debut for Bayer Leverkusen onJuly 29 ,2006 in their German League Cup match againstFC Schalke 04 , where the Leverkusen team lost 9-8 onpenalty shootout . His Bundesliga debut came onAugust 12 ,2006 in the club's first match of the 2006-07 season, a 3-0 home victory overAlemannia Aachen .Haggui has been a regular member of the Tunisian national team since 2003, winning up to this time a total of 29 international caps and scoring four goals for the team. He made his debut for the Tunisian national team on
August 20 ,2003 in their friendly match against Guinea and was subsequently part of the Tunisian squad at the2004 African Cup of Nations , where the team won the title after beating Morocco 2-1 in the final match. Haggui, who was the youngest member of the Tunisian squad at the tournament, appeared in all six matches and scored the deciding penalty in the Tunisian team's 5-3 win over Nigeria on penalty shootout in the semifinals.He was subsequently part of the Tunisian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and appeared in all of their three group matches before they were eliminated from the tournament by finishing third in their group, behind the group winners and eventual gold medalists Argentina and the group runners-up Australia. Haggui also appeared in all of the Tunisian team's four matches at the
2006 African Cup of Nations and was also on target once, scoring the equaliser in the quarterfinals against Nigeria, where Tunisia was eliminated from the tournament after losing 6-5 on penalty shootout. He also played in all of the Tunisian team's three group matches at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, where the team was eliminated from the tournament in the first round as the group third-placed. Prior to the 2006 World Cup finals, he also appeared in seven qualifying matches for the tournament and scored a brace against Botswana in the first match of the qualifying.External links
* [http://fussballdaten.de/spieler/hagulkarim/ Career stats at fussballdaten.de] de icon
* [http://www.leverkusen.com/whoiswho/whoiswho.php4?view=Haggui_K&lang=en Leverkusen who's who]
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