Karim Haggui

Early career

Born in Kasserine, Haggui started his career in 1998 with AS Kasserine in his home town, eventually moving to Etoile du Sahel two years later and starting his professional career there in 2003. He only spent one season as a professional with Etoile du Sahel and moved to French club RC Strasbourg in the summer of 2004.

RC Strasbourg

Haggui made his Ligue 1 debut in Strasbourg's first game of the 2004–05 season, a 2–1 away defeat at SC Bastia on 7 August 2004, coming on as a substitute. He did not play very much in the first half of the season, but eventually managed to find his place as a regular in the final few months of the campaign, making a total of 20 Ligue 1 appearances in his first season with Strasbourg. The club also won the French League Cup that season and qualified for the UEFA Cup. He started his second season with Strasbourg as a regular, scoring his only two Ligue 1 goals with a brace in the club's 4–2 defeat at home to Toulouse on 24 September 2005. After appearing in 11 consecutive league games since the beginning of the season, he lost his place as a regular, nevertheless managing to make a total of 23 appearances in the league that season. He also appeared in six UEFA Cup matches before Strasbourg were knocked out by Basel in the round of 16, scoring the opening goal in their 5–0 win at home to Grazer AK on 29 September 2005.

Bayer Leverkusen

Strasbourg were relegated to Ligue 2 following their 19th-place finish in…

Haggui has been a member of the Tunisian national football team since 2003, making his international debut on 20 August 2003 in their friendly match against Guinea. His first major tournament with the team was the 2004 African Cup of Nations on home soil in Tunisia. Haggui, who was the youngest member of the Tunisian squad at the tournament, appeared in all of the team's six matches on their way to the title. In the semifinals, he conceded a penalty which gave Nigeria the lead, but then he scored the decisive penalty as the team won 5–3 in the penalty shootout to book a place in the final, which they won 2–1 against Morocco. In 2004, he was also part of the Tunisian squad at the Summer Olympics, appearing in all three of the team's group matches before they were knocked out of the tournament following a third-place finish in their group. Haggui made his second appearance at the African Cup of Nations during the 2006 finals in Egypt, appearing in all of Tunisia's four matches at the tournament. He also scored the equaliser in the quarterfinal match against Nigeria, but Tunisia eventually lost the match 6–5 on penalties and were knocked out of the tournament. The same year, he also made his FIFA World Cup debut at the 2006 finals in Germany, appearing in all of Tunisia's three group matches before they were knocked out in the first round after finishing third in their group. In the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying, he made a total of seven appearances and scored two goals in…

International

Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Haggui goal.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

DFB-Pokal runner-up: 2008–09 Tunisia

Africa Cup of Nations: 2004