Djamel Zidane

For other people with this surname, see Zidane (name).

Djamel Zidane

140px Djamel Zidane in 1982
Personal information
Date of birth	(1955-04-28) 28 April 1955
Place of birth	Algiers, Algeria
Height
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1967–1972	USM Alger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1972	USM Alger	0	(0)
1976–1977	A.S.C.E	11	(4)
1977–1978	K.F.C. Eeklo	0	(0)
1978–1980	Sint-Niklase SK	46	(18)
1980–1984	K.V. Kortrijk	116	(34)
1984–1987	K.R.C. Genk	16	(4)
	Total	189	(60)
International career
1975–1988	Algeria	15	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Djamel Zidane (born 28 April 1955 in Algiers, Algeria) is a retired footballer. He played in two World Cups. He appeared for the Algeria national team at the 1982 World Cup and at the 1986 World Cup, in which he scored one goal, a free kick against Northern Ireland. He is not related to Zinedine Zidane.

Career

He spent nine seasons with hometown club USM Alger, making his first steps in the B team, he had rapidly access to the A's, then evolving in the Algerian Division 2 in 1972. He won two Algerian Juniors Cups, and made it with his team to the 1st division in the season 1973/74. He was crowned Algerian best player of the year, and departed to the Belgian League where the playmaker had 7 consecutive seasons, with KV Kortrijk, KSV Waterschei where he became the best foreign player in the Belgian League.

He made 15 appearances with the Algerian National Team between 1975 and 1986, 5 of them during the 1982 and 1986 World Cups finals. He made his entrance to the National team with a friendly against Albania with a 1-0 win, in January 1975, he did not play again for his country until 1981, when he scored his first international goal in a 2-0 defeat of Nigeria in Lagos in October 1981. He then traveled with the Desert Foxes to Spain, to make the first Algerian appearance in the competition, which ended with a tragic elimination after the West-Germany Austria Non-aggression pact of Gijón.

After this deception, he came again with the Desert Foxes into the Mexico 1986 world cup, where he scored his only Fifa World Cup goal against Northern Ireland with a free-kick on the hour mark. The last appeirance of the 1980s Desert Foxes in the World Cup Finals against Spain was also Djamel last international appearance.

Zidane football academy

In 2006 a football academy named after the champion opened in El Achour quarter "Our objective is to educate and train young players, to create an environment in which they can progress," explained academy director Farid Bahbouh.

External links

• Djamel Zidane at National-Football-Teams.com