Abdelhafid Tasfaout

Hafid Tasfaout
	Abdelhafid Tasfaout (2013)
Personal information
Full name	Abdelhafid Tasfaout
Date of birth	February 11, 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Oran, Algeria
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1981–1982	SONATIBA Oran
1982–1984	MC Oran
1985–1986	SNCF Oran
1986–1987	ASM Oran
Senior career*
Years	Team
1987–1990	ASM Oran
1990–1995	MC Oran
1995–1998	Auxerre
1997–1998	→ Guingamp (loan)
1998–2002	Guingamp
2002–2003	Al-Rayyan
International career
1990–2002	Algeria
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Abdelhafid Tasfaout (born February 11, 1969, in Oran, Algeria) is a retired Algerian footballer. A midfielder, he was the captain of the Algerian national football team for five years.

Career

Tasfaout suffered a life-threatening head injury during the 2002 African Cup of Nations in Mali after he clashed with Boubacar Diarra of Mali. An ambulance was driven onto the pitch to give assistance and at the time many of his teammates feared he had been killed. However, he made a complete recovery and it was confirmed that he suffered a broken nose and a swallowed tongue.^[1]

Tasfaout is the Algeria national football team's all-time best scorer with 36 goals.^[2]^[3]

Honours

Personal

Best goalscorer with the Algeria team with 35 goals
Best Algerian player with MC Oran in 1992, 1993 and 1994
Best goalscorer in the Algeria Ligue 1 with MC Oran in 1992 and 1993 with 17 goals

Club

Won the Algerian league twice with MC Oran in 1992 and 1993
Won the French Ligue 1 with AJ Auxerre in 1996
Won the Coupe de France with AJ Auxerre in 1996
Runner-up the Coupe de France with EA Guingamp in 1997

References

^ Gleeson, Mark. "Algeria's Tasfaout recovers after swallowing tongue". ESPN. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Slimani s'attaque au record de Tasfaout". Le Temps d'Algérie. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^ Holstein, Dick; Owsianski, Jarek. "Abdelhafid Tasfaout - International Goals". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

External links

Abdelhafid Tasfaout at National-Football-Teams.com

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[1] Gleeson, Mark. "Algeria's Tasfaout recovers after swallowing tongue". ESPN. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[2] "Slimani s'attaque au record de Tasfaout". Le Temps d'Algérie. Retrieved 10 June 2013.

[3] Holstein, Dick; Owsianski, Jarek. "Abdelhafid Tasfaout - International Goals". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

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