Achille Rouga
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Abdoul Rachid Rouga | ||
Date of birth | 10 June 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Parakou, Benin | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
2002–2008 | Stade Rennais F.C. | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2008–2009 | F.C. Flers | 21 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Unitas'30 | 26 | (0) |
2010–2011 | Avrankou Omnisport FC | (0) | |
2011 | Basingstoke Town | 0 | (0) |
2012 | Waltham Forest | 1 | (0) |
International career | |||
2008–2009 | Benin | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Abdoul Rachid Achille Rouga (born 20 June 1987 in Parakou) is a Beninese international footballer.
Career
The young French-based midfielder was on the books of Stade Rennais F.C., but has never played a senior match. He left in summer 2008 Rennes and joined to F.C. Flers.[1] He left F.C. Flers after one year and he moved to the Netherlands who signed on 1 October 2009 for SC. Unitas'30 Etten-Leur.[2] He left in summer 2010 his club SC. Unitas'30 Etten-Leur of the Dutch First Class C from the KNVB district Zuid 1 and returned to Benin, where he signed with Avrankou Omnisport FC. Im summer 2011 left Benin and returned to Europe, with English-based Basingstoke Town.[3] Rouga played none game for Basingstoke and left the club in December 2011 to Isthmian League Division One North side Waltham Forest.[4] After the end of the season 2012 was released by Waltham Forest and was in December 2012 signed by the Non-League club UK Football Finder Football Club of the Spartan South Midlands League.[5]
International career
He earned his first cap with his national squad, Benin during the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations, where he was a last minute inclusion to the roster.[6] His selection was a shock to his French club who did not even know he had gone on pre-tournament tour to Brazil, he holds five caps his first game was on 19 November 2008 against Egypt.[7]
References
- ^ FC Flers FTT Football Archived July 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rachid Achille Rouga Archived July 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Basingstoke Town FC Online - The Original 100% Unofficial BTFC Fan Site". basingstoketown.net. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Statistics: [Powered by tplSoccerStats]". walthamforest-fc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "Players - UKFF Elite Development Squad - UK Football Finder Football Club". ukfffc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Football's unsung heroes - FIFA.com on FIFA.com, 13 January 2008
- ^ Rachid Rouga Info Générales Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- Wikipedia articles needing copy edit from September 2018
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Beninese footballers
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- 2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Expatriate footballers in France
- Stade Rennais F.C. players
- Beninese expatriates in France
- Waltham Forest F.C. players
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Basingstoke Town F.C. players
- Beninese expatriates in the United Kingdom
- People from Parakou
- Avrankou Omnisport FC players
- Association football defenders
- Beninese football biography stubs