Skander Souayah

Skander Souayah
Personal information
Full name	Skander Souayah
Date of birth	20 November 1972 (age 49)
Place of birth	Sfax, Tunisia
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1992–2001	CS Sfaxien
1999–2000	→ Al Ain FC (loan)
2001–2005	Espérance Tunis
Total
National team
1994–2002	Tunisia
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he scored the only Tunisian goal of the competition from the 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[]

^ 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

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[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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