Montassar Omar Talbi (born 26 May 1998) is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for French Ligue 1 club Lorient and the Tunisia national team.
![]() Talbi with Rubin Kazan in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Montassar Omar Talbi[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1998-05-26) 26 May 1998 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Paris, France | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Centre-back | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Lorient | |||||||||||||||
Number | 3 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2003–2006 | Paris FC | |||||||||||||||
2006–2010 | Les Lilas | |||||||||||||||
2010–2017 | ES Tunis | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | ES Tunis | 14 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2018–2021 | Çaykur Rizespor | 49 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2021 | Benevento | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2021–2022 | Rubin Kazan | 25 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2022– | Lorient | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2018 | Tunisia U23 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2021– | Tunisia | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
| ||||||||||||||||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 8 September 2021 |
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.[2] Talbi made his professional debut with ES Tunis in a 0–0 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 tie with CS Sfaxien on 2 April 2017.[3] On 20 June 2018, Talbi signed with Çaykur Rizespor in the Turkish Süper Lig.[4]
On 9 August 2021, he signed a four-year contract with Russian Premier League club FC Rubin Kazan.[5]
On 18 July 2022, Talbi signed a five-year contract with Lorient in France.[6]
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.[7][8] 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.[9]
He was later included for the squad of the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup, despite not being released by the Russian club. He reunited with the team following Rubin's 2–0 away defeat to Krylia Sovetov Samara and made his debut in the cup in the semi-finals against Egypt, which was won by Tunisia 1–0.[citation needed]
Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
ES Tunis | 2016–17 | Tunisian Ligue 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7[lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 15 | 0 |
2017–18 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 17 | 1 | ||
Total | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 32 | 1 | ||
Çaykur Rizespor | 2018–19 | Süper Lig | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 5 | 1 | ||
2019–20 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 0 | ||||
2020–21 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 23 | 1 | ||||
Total | 49 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 2 | ||
Rubin Kazan | 2021–22 | RPL | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 0 | ||
Career total | 88 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 116 | 3 |
Tunisia
ES Tunis
FC Lorient – current squad | |
---|---|
|
Tunisia squad – 2021 Africa Cup of Nations | ||
---|---|---|
| ![]() |