In anticipation of the 2025 Club World Cup, Esperance de Tunis plans to reconstitute a duo who conquered Africa in 2019.
Drawn in Group D of the Club World Cup with Chelsea, Flamengo and Leon, Hope of Tunis aspires to strengthen itself for the big deadline. This is why the champion of Tunisia and finalist of the last edition of Confederation of African Football (CAF) Champions League checked the name of Baghdad Bounedjah.
International Algerian on 72 occasions and second scorer in the history of the Greens with 32 goals, the scorer of Al-Shamal SC in Qatar (11 goals in as many appearances) knows the competition well in its old version (with 7 teams) to having participated in 2019. It was with Al Sadd. For the occasion, he finished joint top scorer with the Libyan Hamdou El Houni with 3 pawns.
Towards a return of the Wahran Connection?
According to the Tunisian station Mosaic Radiothe Taraji is said to have probed the 33-year-old. The management would have tried to approach with a view to signing him this winter. The person concerned would only be inclined to join the Tunisian city next summer. This, probably with a view to competing directly in the Club World Cup. A requirement to which the Esperantists would have opposed.
The possible arrival of Bounedjah could reconstitute the duo with his compatriot Youcef Belaïli, who arrived in the Tunisian capital last summer. The Wahran Connection brought Algeria to the roof of Africa in 2019 by winning the CAN on their land. The two men, authors of 2 goals each in the tournament, had been permanent poisons for the opposing defenses due to their complicity on the field.
However, the arrival of Bounedjah seems more than hypothetical, given that he recently extended two seasons in Qatar. To be continued…
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