Abdelaziz Ben Tifour
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 25 July 1927 | ||
Place of birth | Hussein Dey, Algeria | ||
Date of death | 19 November 1970 | (aged 43)||
Place of death | Algiers, Algeria | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) |
Midfield | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1945–1946 | Espérance Tunis | – | (–) |
1946–1948 |
CS Hammam-Lif | – | (–) |
1948–1953 | Nice | 129 | (34) |
1953–1955 | AS Troyes-Savinienne | 65 | (15) |
1955–1958 | Monaco | 86 | (13) |
1962–1963 | USM Alger | – | (–) |
International career | |||
1952–1957 | France | 4 | (0) |
1958–1962 | FLN | - | (-) |
Managerial career | |||
1959–1962 | FLN | ||
1961–1962 | US Tunis | ||
1969 | Algeria | ||
1969–1970 | JS Kabylie | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (
Life and career
He was a pioneer of Algerian football playing in Tunisia and France in the 40s and 50s as well as establishing the first Algerian national team with two other FLN activists featuring ten players in France's provisional World Cup squad on the eve of the finals in Sweden.[citation needed] One of those players was Ben Tifour, who had played for the France national team on four occasions including one appearance at the 1954 World Cup.[citation needed]
Born in
When Algeria was granted independence in 1962, the 33-year-old Ben Tifour unlike Mekloufi and Ahmed Oudjani who moved back to play in Europe, returned to his homeland to take up a player-coach role at USM Alger leading them to the first Algerian championship in 1963.
Ben Tifour died at the age of 43 while he was coach at JS Kabylie during the 1970–1971 season.[citation needed]
Clubs
- Espérance Sportive de Tunis (1945–1946)
- Club Sportif de Hammam Lif (1946–1948)
- OGC Nice (1948–1954)
- AS Troyes-Savinienne (1954–1956)
- AS Monaco(1956–1958)
- FLN Equipe (1958–1962)
- USMA, Union Sportive de la Medina d'Alger (1962–1963)
References
- ^ "Abdelaziz Ben Tifour". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
External links
- Abdelaziz Ben Tifour at the French Football Federation (in French)
- Abdelaziz Ben Tifour at the French Football Federation (archived 2018-10-01) (in French)