Issam Tej

Issam Tej 11 August 2007 for the Schlecker Cup in Ehingen

Status: National December 17, 2013

Issam Tej ( born July 29, 1979 in Tunis, Tunisia) is a Tunisian handball player. He is 1.87 m tall.

Tej, who plays for French club Montpellier HB top and runs for the Tunisian men's national handball team is mostly used as a circular rotor.

In his youth, Issam Tej played in his hometown at Club olympique des transports and Stade Tunisia. At age 16, he was discovered by top club Espérance Sportive de Tunis and contracted. With Tunis he was, inter alia, 2003 Tunisian champions and cup winners. In the same year, the French first division side SC Sélestat Handball to the already his compatriot Heykel Megannem was changed a year before him committed. After Tej had been elected in 2006 to the best pivot player in the league, him the top club Montpellier HB took them under contract. There he won the 2007 French League Cup. Furthermore won Tej 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, the French Championships and 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013 the French Cup.

In German-speaking Tej gained the end of September 2007 due to a tackle greater awareness. In the first preliminary round group match of EHF Champions League 2007 /08 between Montpellier HB and the German champion, THW Kiel, he is said to have the Kieler Star Nikola Karabatic fouled intentionally for his opinion, so that Karabatic fails for several weeks or months. Curiously, play Tej and Karabatic brothers since the 2009/10 season together in a team.

Tej has been disputed 269 caps for the Tunisian men's national handball team. With his country he was in 1998, 2002 and 2005 African champions. In the Men's Handball World Championship for Men in 2005 in his own country, he finished with Tunisia fourth place at the World Cup 2007 in Germany but he left in the main group and finished at the end of the 11th Place. In the summer of 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games in London.