Tireless TunisianA close-up look at new Eintracht signing Ellyes Skhiri.
Eintracht fans will not enjoy recalling 12 March 2023, when the Eagles lost 3-0 at 1. FC Köln on Matchday 20 last season. One opposition player in particular stood out that Sunday evening: midfielder Ellyes Skhiri. The 28-year-old scored twice and covered every blade of grass on the pitch; now he aims to do the same for Eintracht. Welcome to Frankfurt, Flaco! Where did that nickname come from? “Lucas Barrios started calling me that in Montpellier, probably because I’m so fit,” laughed Skhiri in an interview with EintrachtTV. Translated from Spanish, the moniker means “skinny”, with Barrios likely referring to the midfielder’s 1.85-metre, 74-kilogram frame. Nevertheless, Skhiri excels thanks to his robustness, stability, running strength and positioning He was recently labelled “top class” by Germany’s leading football magazine ‘kicker’, who also named him as the best defensive midfielder in the Bundesliga last season. Industrious workerThat was no one-off. In three of his four seasons at Köln, Skhiri finished among the top three Bundesliga players for total distance covered. He made 133 appearances for the Billy Goats between 2019 and 2023, scoring 20 times.Those qualities mean he has been a senior Tunisia international for several years now: the midfielder has earned 54 caps to date, six of which have come at World Cups, while he also helped his country finish fourth at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
The son of a Tunisian father and a French mother, Skhiri was born in 1995 and grew up in the town of Lunel, just outside Montpellier in southern France. His footballing ability was passed down in his genes from his father, Abdesselam, who played for several years in the French second division with AS Béziers He’s an established Bundesliga player and will be a stabilising factor in midfield for us.
Board member for sport Markus Krösche
Skhiri junior started playing football at the age of four at Gallia Club Lunel. He later moved to the Olympique Nimes youth academy for a year when he was 16 before joining top-flight side HSC Montpellier.
He made his professional debut for the two-time French cup winners and 2012 Ligue 1 champions at the age of 19, even if it was only a one-minute cameo against FC Evian. Skhiri’s first 90-minute outing arrived almost two months later, incidentally as a centre-back, which is where he was often asked to play at the start of his professional career. He eventually established himself in defensive midfield and ultimately made 123 competitive appearances for Montpellier, contributing ten goals and five assistsThat is the position he has also been earmarked for at Eintracht. “In Ellyes Skhiri we’ve brought in a player we really wanted to sign,” said board member for sport Markus Krösche. “He’s an established Bundesliga player and will be a stabilising factor in midfield for us,Ellyes Skhiri nachrichten,neu von Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri news,nachrichten vom Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri aktuelle nachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri transfer nachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri news,Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri Elly it's Skhiri transfernews , Ellyes Skhiri Nachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri Nachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri Nachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri Transfers Ellyes Skhiri Transfernachrichten,Ellyes Skhiri ,Bayern Transfers,Wechsel von Ellyes Skhiri ,Ellyes Skhiri jhv
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