Personal information | |||
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Full name | Aymen Mathlouthi[1] | ||
Date of birth | 14 September 1984 | ||
Place of birth | Tunis, Tunisia | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–2001 | Club Africain | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2003 | Club Africain | 0 | (0) |
2003–2018 | Étoile du Sahel | 302 | (0) |
2018 | Al-Batin | 7 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Club Africain | 5 | (0) |
2019 | Al-Adalah | 10 | (0) |
2020–2023 | Étoile du Sahel | 38 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2007–2022 | Tunisia | 73 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:55, 25 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:50, 25 November 2022 (UTC) |
Aymen Mathlouthi (Arabic: أَيْمَن الْمَثْلُوثِيّ; born 14 September 1984), also known as Balbouli, is a Tunisian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Regarded by pundits as the best Tunisian goalkeepers and one of the best African goalkeepers of all time, some of his highlighted traits apart from goalkeeping, is his smooth ball control, and dribbling inside the penalty area. Mathlouthi won the 2011 African Nations Championship held in Sudan. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) chose Mathlouthi as the best goalkeeper in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations held in Equatorial Guinea, being also included in the CAF Team of the Tournament. He was Tunisia's starting goalkeeper vs Panama at the last group stage match of the 2018 World Cup, which also marked his World Cup debut. Called-up for the 2022 World Cup, it was his second representing his country.