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Rachid Azzouzi

Rachid Azzouzi
Azzouzi in 2015.
Personal information
Date of birth (1971-01-10) 10 January 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth Taounate, Morocco
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)[1]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Hertha Mariadorf
Alemannia Mariadorf
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1989 1. FC Köln reserves
1989–1995 MSV Duisburg 111 (4)
1995–1997 Fortuna Köln 43 (0)
1997–2003 Greuther Fürth 156 (27)
2003 Chongqing Lifan 11 (0)
2004 Greuther Fürth 12 (1)
International career
1990–1998 Morocco 37 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rachid Azzouzi (Arabic: رشيد عزّوزي) (born 10 January 1971) is a Moroccan former football midfielder and current sporting director. Raised in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.

Early life

Azzouzi was born in Taounate, Morocco, and moved as a child with his family to Germany. He was raised in Rhineland.[2][3]

Club career

Azzouzi began playing as a youth for Hertha and Alemannia Mariadorf. In 1988, he moved to 1.FC Köln, where he would play for one year. He later played for several clubs, including MSV Duisburg from 1989 to 1995, Fortuna Köln for two years and then for SpVgg Greuther Fürth, but before which he played for half a year for Chongqing Lifan in China.[4] In total, he played 260 second division games, in which he scored 30 goals. In his 64 Bundesliga games for MSV Duisburg he scored three times.[5][6] In the 2004–05 Season he was coach of the Fürther U-17-Jugendmannschaft and was relegated with the team from the B-Jugend-Regionalliga.[4]

International career

He played for the Morocco national football team and was a participant at the 1992 Summer Olympics,[7] 1994 FIFA World Cup and at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Sporting director career

After the end of his playing career, Azzouzi served as assistant to the manager from 2005 to 2007, then Team-Manager in 2007-08, and then sporting director for SpVgg Greuther Fürth. On 25 May 2012, it was announced that Azzouzi will become the new sporting director of Germany second division club FC St. Pauli.[8][9] On 16 December 2014, he left his position in St. Pauli. On 10 June 2015 he was signed a two-years contract as a sporting director of Fortuna Düsseldorf.[10][11][12] However, this cooperation ended after just under a year, on 25 May 2016.[13]

On 22 November 2017, Azzouzi returned to SpVgg Greuther Fürth as sporting director.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ "Azzouzi, Rachid" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Mintal und Co.: Die Liebe der Fußball-Migranten" (in German). nordbayern.de. 8 September 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Rachid Azzouzi" (in German). sport.de. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Rachid Azzouzi" (in German). Kleeblatt-Chronik. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Rachid Azzouzi" (in German). Kicker. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Azzouzi heuert bei der Fortuna an" (in German). Kicker. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Mohamed Rashid Azzouzi Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Paukenschlag! Azzouzi geht - zu St. Pauli" (in German). kicker.de. 25 May 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  9. ^ Bald, Christian (25 May 2012). "Rachid Azzouzi verlässt die SpVgg Greuther Fürth" (in German). SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Archived from the original on 18 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Rachid Azzouzi wird Sportdirektor" (in German). f95.de. 6 June 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  11. ^ "Fortuna Düsseldorf Rachid Azzouzi wird Sportdirektor" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Fortuna: Azzouzi folgt auf Schulte" (in German). Sport1. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Rachid Azzouzi" (in German). Rheinische Post. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Mit großer Geschlossenheit und viel Fleiß" (in German). SpVgg Greuther Fürth. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  15. ^ "Fürth macht Azzouzi wieder zum Sportdirektor" (in German). Rheinische Post. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2021.


Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Azzouzi