Mootez Zaddem
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Zaddem with Étoile du Sahel in 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mootez Zaddem[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 January 2001[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sousse, Tunisia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Modern Sport | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Valmiera | 23 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | → Étoile du Sahel (loan) | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Espérance de Tunis | 23 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | → Al Masry (loan) | 21 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | → Modern Sport (loan) | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Modern Sport | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Tunisia U20 | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Tunisia | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
Mootez Zaddem (Arabic: معتز الزدام; born 5 January 2001 in Sousse) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Modern Sport and the Tunisia national team.[2][3]
Club career
On 10 September 2021, Zaddem moved to Étoile du Sahel on a one-year loan from Valmeria.[4]
International career
With the under 20s, he participated in the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in 2021. During this competition held in Mauritania, he played six games. Tunisia ranked fourth in the tournament, losing to the Gambia in the match for third place.
Zaddem made his international debut for Tunisia on 3 December 2021, coming off the bench in the 86th minute against the Syria national football team.[4][5] He was part of the squad that were runners-up in the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup.[6]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 29 May 2025
| Club | Season | League | Cup[a] | League cup[b] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Valmiera | 2020 | Latvian Higher League | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 1[c] | 0 | — | 20 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | Latvian Higher League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2[d] | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | — | 27 | 0 | ||||
| Étoile du Sahel (loan) | 2021–22 | Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 6[e] | 0 | — | 28 | 0 | ||
| Espérance de Tunis | 2022–23 | Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 9[e] | 0 | — | 30 | 2 | ||
| 2023–24 | Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 4 | 1 | — | 2[f] | 0 | 2[g] | 0 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| 2024–25 | Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | 23 | 2 | 4 | 1 | — | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 3 | |||
| Al Masry (loan) | 2023–24 | Egyptian Premier League | 21 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 22 | 5 | |||
| Modern Sport (loan) | 2024–25 | Egyptian Premier League | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 14 | 1 | |||
| Modern Sport | 2025–26 | Egyptian Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 14 | 1 | |||||
| Career total | 101 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 134 | 9 | ||
- ^ Includes Latvian Football Cup, Tunisian Cup and Egyptian Cup
- ^ Includes Egyptian League Cup
- ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Conference League
- ^ a b Appearances in CAF Champions League
- ^ One appearance in CAF Champions League, one appearance in African Football League
- ^ Appearances in Arab Club Champions Cup
International
- As of 26 March 2024
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunisia U20 | 2020 | 4 | 0 |
| 2021 | 8 | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 0 | |
| Tunisia | 2021 | 2 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 3 | 0 | |
| Career total | 15 | 0 | |
Honours
Tunisia
References
- ^ a b c "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Tunisia" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 15. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
- ^ "Mootez Zaddem". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Tunisia beat Namibia 2-0". The Namibian. 18 February 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ a b "Mootez Zaddem". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ VAVEL.com (4 December 2021). "Goals and Highlights: Syria 2-0 Tunisia in FIFA Arab Cup 2021 | 12/04/2021". VAVEL. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ "SquadLists" (PDF). Retrieved 20 December 2021.
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