Hassan Benabicha
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hassan Benabicha | ||
Date of birth | 15 April 1964 | ||
Place of birth | Khemisset, Morocco | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985–1997 | Wydad Casablanca | ||
International career | |||
1988–1991 | Morocco | 3 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2008 | Kawkab Marrakech (caretaker) | ||
2010–2011 | Morocco U18 | ||
2011–2013 | Morocco U20 | ||
2013–2014 | Morocco | ||
2014–2015 | Morocco U-23 | ||
2016 | Kawkab Marrakech | ||
2019 | Rapide Oued Zem | ||
2020-2021 | KAC Kénitra | ||
2022 | Wydad Casablanca | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Hassan Benabicha (Arabic: حسن بنعبيشة; born 15 April 1964) is a Moroccan football manager and former player.
Biography
[edit]Benabicha played several years for Wydad Casablanca and is counted among the club's most emblematic players. Once his playing career completed, Benabicha managed numerous Moroccan teams, including FAR Rabat, Kawkab Marrakesh and JS Massira.
In 2008, Benabicha was appointed as caretaker manager for Kawkab Marrakech.[1] In April 2010, he took charge of the Moroccan U18 national team.[2] In 2011, Benabicha became the head coach of Morocco's U20 team, which he temporarily left to manage Morocco's local players in the 2014 African Nations Championship taking place in South Africa. The team left the competition in the quarter-finals following a 4–3 defeat to Nigeria.
After head coach Rachid Taoussi's dismissal, Benabicha became Morocco's interim manager. He led the team in a friendly match against Gabon in Marrakesh, which ended in a 1–1 draw. Benabicha left the position in 2014. He was eventually replaced by 1986 African Footballer of the Year and former Morocco player Badou Ezzaki, who most notably led the national team to the final of the 2004 African Cup of Nations.
Honours
[edit]As manager
[edit]Morocco U20
- Mediterranean Games: 2013
- Islamic Solidarity Games: 2013
- Jeux de la Francophonie runner-up: 2013
- Toulon Tournament runner-up: 2015
References
[edit]- ^ Chabab Houara élimine le Wydad, aujourdhui.ma, 8 April 2008
- ^ Pim Verbeek, Directeur des équipes nationales des jeunes, maghress.com, 30 April 2010
External links
[edit]- Hassan Benabicha at FootballDatabase.eu
- 1964 births
- Living people
- People from Khemisset
- Moroccan men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Morocco men's international footballers
- 1988 African Cup of Nations players
- Wydad AC players
- Botola players
- Moroccan football managers
- Morocco national football team managers
- Wydad AC managers
- KAC Marrakech managers
- Kénitra AC managers
- Moroccan football biography stubs