Montassar Talbi

Montassar Omar Talbi (born 26 May 1998) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Russian club Rubin Kazan and the Tunisia national football team.

Club Career

Born in France, Talbi began playing football with the youth academies of Paris FC and FC Les Lilas. His family had to move back to Tunisia, and at the age of 12 Talbi moved to the academy of ES Tunis, and moved up through the youth levels. Talbi made his professional debut with ES Tunis in a 0-0 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 tie with CS Sfaxien on 2 April 2017. On 20 June 2018, Talbi signed with Caykur Rizespor in the Turkish Super Lig.

On 9 August 2021, he signed a four-year contract with Russian Premier League club FC Rubin Kazan.

International Career

Talbi is a youth international for the Tunisia 23s and made his debut in a 2-0 friendly loss to the Italy 23s on 15 October 2018. He debuted with the senior Tunisia national team in a 2–1 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification win over Equatorial Guinea on 28 March 2021.

This page also has a version in other languages :  Монтассар Тальби (russian)