Omar Betrouni
 Algeria vs Nigeria in the final match of the 1978 All-Africa Games football tournament in Algiers | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Omar Betrouni | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 9 January 1949 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Algiers, Algeria | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1962 | AS Saint Eugène | ||||||||||||||||
| 1962–1967 | MC Alger | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1967–1980 | MC Alger | 363 | (94) | ||||||||||||||
| 1980–1983 | USM Alger | ||||||||||||||||
| 1983–1985 | JS El Biar | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | Algeria U20 | - | (-) | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1978 | Algeria | 48 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Omar Betrouni (Arabic: عمر بطرونى; born 9 January 1949) is a former Algeria international football forward who played for MC Alger and USM Alger.
Playing career
[edit]Born in Algiers, Betrouni played club football for MC Alger for more than a decade, winning the Algerian league championship five times and the Algerian cup three times.[1] He also led the league in goal-scoring once and helped MC Alger win the 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs. He joined USM Alger in 1980 and would finish his career with the club, winning the Algerian cup once more.
Betrouni made 48 appearances for the senior Algeria national football team, including four FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. He made his debut in an African Cup of Nations qualifying match against Morocco on 10 December 1970. He also helped Algeria win the 1978 All-Africa Games title, scoring once in five matches.
In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.[2]
Club
[edit]| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Algeria | League | Algerian Cup | Africa | Total | ||||||
| 1967–68 | MC Alger | Algerian Championnat | 19 | 9 | 3 | 0 | - | 22 | 9 | |
| 1968–69 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | - | 24 | 6 | |||
| 1969–70 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | - | 20 | 5 | |||
| 1970–71 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 4 | - | 28 | 7 | |||
| 1971–72 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 0 | - | 33 | 11 | |||
| 1972–73 | 29 | 5 | 6 | 1 | - | 35 | 6 | |||
| 1973–74 | 29 | 17 | 1 | 1 | - | 30 | 18 | |||
| 1974–75 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 0 | - | 34 | 5 | |||
| 1975–76 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 43 | 11 | ||
| 1976–77 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ? | 1 | ? | 2 | ||
| 1977–78 | 25 | 9 | 2 | 0 | - | 27 | 9 | |||
| 1978–79 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ? | 0 | ? | 2 | ||
| 1979–80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ? | 0 | ? | 0 | ||
| Country | Algeria | |||||||||
| Total | ||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Omar Betrouni". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ "Οι 200 κορυφαίοι Αφρικανοί". Sport24.gr. 25 October 2006.
External links
[edit]- Omar Betrouni – FIFA competition record (archived)
- BETROUNI Omar at Sebbar.kazeo.com
- Profile at Mouloudia.org
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- 1949 births
- Living people
- Algerian men's footballers
- Algeria men's international footballers
- Algeria men's youth international footballers
- JS El Biar players
- MC Alger players
- Footballers from Algiers
- USM Alger players
- African Games gold medalists for Algeria
- African Games medalists in football
- Men's association football forwards
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Algeria
- Mediterranean Games medalists in football
- Competitors at the 1978 All-Africa Games
- Competitors at the 1975 Mediterranean Games
- 21st-century Algerian people
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