Mohamed Amine Chermiti (born 26 December 1987 in Sfax

Sfax

Sfax is a city in Tunisia, located southeast of Tunis. The city, founded in AD 849 on the ruins of Taparura and Thaenae, is the capital of the Sfax Governorate , and a Mediterranean port. Sfax has population of 340,000...

) is a Tunisian footballer who plays as a striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

 for FC Zürich.

Club career

Chermiti has been mentioned as one of the African players of the year due to his performance in the African Champions League, where he scored eight goals in the tournament. He is credited for Etoile's superb performance in the Champions League.

On 6 August 2008, he officially transferred to Hertha BSC and played his first match for them the following day in the first round of the German Cup

DFB-Pokal

The DFB-Pokal or DFB Cup is a German knockout football cup competition held annually. 64 teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga. It is considered the second most important national title in German football after the Bundesliga...

. On 11 August 2009 Chermiti was loaned to Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

n top club Al-Ittihad for one year and returned on 30 June 2010.

On 5 July 2010 Chermiti signed a four-year contract with FC Zürich until summer 2014.

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