Taieb Mhiri Stadium
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The Taïeb Mhiri Stadium (Arabic: ملعب الطيب المهيري) is a multi-purpose stadium in Sfax, Tunisia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Club Sportif Sfaxien. Built in 1938, it holds 11,000 people and was used for the 2004 African Cup of Nations.
It was named as Stade Henri Coudrec, who was one of the French notable personalities and vice-president of the municipality of Sfax, before taking the name of Taieb Mhiri, who was a Tunisian politician and the interior minister from 1956 until his death in 1965.
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