Espérance Sportive de Tunis (volleyball)

Espérance de Tunis

Full name	Espérance Sportive de Tunis
Short name	EST
Founded	1956
Ground	Salle Mohamed-Zouaoui, Tunis
Chairman	Hamdi Meddeb
Manager	Veljko Basić
League	Tunisian Volleyball League
2014–15	1st Place
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

The Espérance Sportive de Tunis Volleyball Club (Arabic: نادى الترجي الرياضي التونسى للكرة الطائرة‎‎, often referred to as EST) is one of Espérance de Tunis club's sections that represent the club in Tunisia and international volleyball competitions, the club team section based in capital Tunis since the year 1956.

History

Espérance de Tunis's active sections
Football	Handball	Volleyball
Basketball	Wrestling	Judo

Current squad

#	Player	Position	Height (m)	Weight (kg)
2	Alexander Sorokoletov	Outside Hitter
6	Skander Ben Tara	Middle blocker	2,02 m	93 kg
7	Elyes Karamosli	Outside Hitter	1,99 m	103 kg
8	Mohamed Ben Slimene	Setter	1,87 m	73 kg
10	Hichem Kaâbi	Opposite	1,94 m	93 kg
11	Marouen Fehri	Outside Hitter	1,97 m	80 kg
12	Mehdi Ben Cheikh (captain)	Setter	1,83 m	89 kg
13	Malek Chekir	Outside Hitter	1,89 m	75 kg
14	Bilel Ben Hassine	Middle blocker	1,95 m	90 kg
16	Chokri Jouini	Opposite	1,94 m	70 kg
17	Elyes Garfi	Outside Hitter	1,98 m	80 kg
18	Aymen Karoui	Middle blocker	1,94 m	84 kg
20	Saddem Hmissi	Libero	1,86 m	73 kg

• Head coach: Veljko Basić
• Assistant coach: Walid Mach'hout

Technical and managerial staff

Name	Role	Nationality
Hamdi Meddeb	Manager	Tunisian
Foued Kammoun	Coach	Tunisian
Yassine Sghairi	Assistant Coach	Tunisian
Chekib Bouslama	Team manager	Tunisian
Zied Arfaoui	Physiotherapist	Tunisian

Honours

National Achievements

• Tunisian League :

Winners (16x titles) : 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2006–07, 2007–08 , 2014–15

Runners up (9x times) : 1978–79, 1984–85, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1999–00, 2005–06, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14

Third (3x times) : 1962–63, 2000–01, 2011–12

• Tunisian Cup :

Winners (14x cups) : 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1979–80, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–20, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2013–14

Runners up (8x vice champions) : 1967–68, 1968–69, 1974–75, 1978–79, 1997–98, 2008–09, 2011–12, 2012–13

Regional Achievements

Team in the Arab volleyball championship, February 2014

• Arab Clubs Championship :

Winners (2x titles) : 2007, 2014

Runners up (2x vice champions) : 1978, 2008

International Achievements

• African Club Championship :

Winners (4x titles) : 1994, 1998, 2000, 2014

Runners up (3x vice champions) : 1999, 2013, 2015

Head coaches

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.

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As of 2014

Notable players

Tunisia

• Hassine Belkhouja
• Samir Tebourski
• Ghazi Guidara
• Mohammed Baghdadi
• Khaled Belaïd

Africa

• Friday Abassin

Europe

• David Zoltàn

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Espérance Sportive de Tunis (volleyball).

• www.est.org.tn