Abdessamad Badaoui
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 24 August 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Casablanca, Morocco | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2011-2019 | Raja CA | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019-2022 | JS Soualem | 51 | (0) |
| 2022-2023 | Raja CA | 39 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019–2022 | Morocco U-23 | 2 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 October 2023 | |||
Abdessamad Badaoui (Arabic: عبد الصمد بدوي; born 24 August 1999) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a right-back. He began his career as a youth player with Raja CA before joining JS Soualem in 2019 where he gained with them their first ever promotion to Botola. In January 2022, he returned to Raja CA.
Early life
[edit]Abdessamad Badaoui was born on 24 August 1999 in Casablanca. He started playing football in the streets before joining the academy of Raja Club Athletic in the Raja-Oasis Complex.
Club career
[edit]Debut with Raja CA
[edit]In 2018, Badaoui began to play with the reserves under Abdelilah Fahmi but did not establish himself as a starter.
Transfer to JS Soualem and promotion
[edit]In 2019, he joined Jeunesse Sportive Soualem which had just won the 2017-18 Amateur National Championship (D3) under the direction of Redouane El Haimer.[1] In his first season, he quickly became a starter and the team were very close to promotion but finished in fifth place.[2]
The club of Soualem finished second at the end of the 2020–21 Botola 2 one point behind Olympique de Khouribga, meaning they earned their first ever promotion to the first division.[3][4]
During the summer of 2021, he refuses to sign for RS Berkane despite an agreement reached between Fouzi Lekjaa and Bouchaib Bencheikh, president of JS Soualem.[5]
On 19 December 2021, after a long-term injury, he made his Botola debut against Youssoufia Berrechid and played 10 minutes (loss 1–2). He will start the next games.[6]
Return to Raja CA
[edit]On 31 January 2022, Abdessamad Badaoui returns to his former club Raja CA and signed a four-and-a-half-year contract.[7]
On 7 April, he played his first match against JS de Kasbah Tadla in the round of 16 of the Throne Cup (0-1 victory).[8]
On 8 October in Niamey, he played his first international match against ASN Nigelec in the second round of the 2022-23 Champions League (victory 0–2).
References
[edit]- ^ "كووورة: الموقع العربي الرياضي الأول". www.kooora.com. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "Football, Maroc : Classements de Botola 2 2019/2020 - Soccerstand.com". www.soccerstand.com (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "Botola: la jeunesse sportive soualem promu en d1 pour la premiere fois de son histoire" [botola: the Jeunesse Sportive Soualem promoted to D1 for the first time in its history]. 2m.ma. 25 June 2021.
- ^ "Tout savoir sur la Jeunesse sportive Salmi, nouveau promu en Botola 1". Le360 Sport (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "لاعب رجاوي يصدم لقجع بعد اجتماع مفاجئ". Sport 1 سبور (in Arabic). 31 July 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ Sofascore. "CA Youssoufia Berrechid vs Jeunesse Sportive de Soualem live score, H2H and lineups | Sofascore". www.sofascore.com. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
- ^ "رسميا/ الرجاء يحسم سابع تعاقداته "الشتوية" بضم لاعب الشباب السالمي عبد الصمد البدوي". www.elbotola.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 31 January 2022..
- ^ lesiteinfo (7 April 2022). "Coupe du Trône: Le Raja s'impose face à la Jeunesse Kasbat Tadla". Le Site Info (in French). Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.