Tunisia's head coach offers touching tribute to Moroccan hospitality

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Tunisia's head coach offers touching tribute to Moroccan hospitality  Tunisia’s head coach Sami Trabelsi has been busy. He’s led his team to a second place finish in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group C and qualified for the Round of 16. But he’s found time to make friends and remind AFCON fans that football is about more than what happens on the pitch.    READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2026/01/01/tunisias-head-coach-offers-touching-tribute-to-moroccan-hospitality  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Tunisia's head coach Sami Tribelsi has been busy.

00:04He's led his team to a second-place finish in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group C

00:09and qualified for Round 16.

00:12But he's still found time to make friends and remind fans

00:16that football is about more than what happens on the pitch.

00:21It began with an invitation to lunch.

00:24After a pre-match briefing at Rabat's main media centre,

00:27a security guard invited Tribelsi to join his crew for a meal.

00:33The coach refused but was touched by the gesture and didn't forget.

00:37A few days later, he returned with a gift for the man in uniform,

00:42a Carthage Eagles jersey bearing the number five.

00:48In the end, what remains in life is not the matches, they're forgotten,

00:53but the love and appreciation of the people.

00:55What we experienced in Morocco was exceptional.

01:00They made us feel not as if we were in a second country, but our first.

01:05It was real love and encouragement, and I thank them from my heart.

01:11Because what comes from the heart reaches people directly,

01:15while anything artificial has little impact.

01:18The number five shirt used to belong to a legendary player

01:24who helped deliver Tunisia's first African title before dying, age just 24.

01:31This is the jersey of Ben Ramadan,

01:34but the number five belongs to the greatest player ever to represent Tunisia,

01:39Hedi Berkisa.

01:39It holds a symbolic place in the hearts of all Tunisians.

01:44Morocco and Tunisia will go back to being rivals on the pitch,

01:48but for a moment they were united in their love of the game.

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