Ali Benfadah ( – )http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn10/saifi8/benfada.jpg?t=1225638203 was an Algerian international footballer and manager who played as a forward.

Life and career

Born in 1935 in the small suburb tourism of

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, Zéralda, Ali quickly between the world of football, since signing in 1947 in the sports Zéralda Star, in which he will make all his classes as that hope and junior before joining the seniors in 1953 for the following two seasons. He left to join the ES Zéralda Gallia Algiers 1955. He will leave for work experience side Association Sportive Valencia in 1956, club he will leave soon to join the club Olympique Ales (where he will meet the one Ms. Bernon become his wife Micheline) and finally the Sporting d'Angers in 1959. The Order of the FLN football team Ali will be there from the beginning. He managed to join in Tunis this famous eleven of Independence and played two season. At independence of the Algeria in 1962, Benfedah returns to the Sporting d'Angers before taking the direction of Sporting Toulon Var the following season. He will return in 1964 in Algeria like player-coach of Hydra Athletic Club, and won the title of his division in the first season, and dolphin in its second season. He then fly to the Mouloudia Algiers in 1965, which was the sentence 2 division but Ali still succeed in winning the championship of the East group, which allows access to D1. He will end his playing career in 1967 when he goes cause Youth Sports Kabyle, with which he managed the feat of getting the D3 until the

Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 The Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 ( ar, الرابطة الجزائرية المحترفة الأولى لكرة القدم); known as Championnat National de Première Division or Ligue 1 for short, and formerly known as the Championnat Natio ...

in just two years. He returned to 1969 to

Hydra AC Hydra Athletic Club ( ar, أمل حيدرة), known as Hydra AC or HAC for short, is an Algerian football club based in the Hydra neighbourhood of Algiers. The club was founded in 1936 and its colours are red and white. Their home stadium, Stade ...

as a coach, and next season he will start with the result USM El Harrach, before returning to the Mouloudia Algiers, where he will win the Algerian Cup 1971 and

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in the same year, he will lead thereafter the

JS El Biar Jeunesse Sportive d'El Biar, referred to commonly as JS El Biar or JSEB for short, is an Algerian football club based in the El Biar district of Alger, Algeria. Founded in 1944, the team currently plays in the Régionale I in the Ligue Régi ...

CR Belouizdad Chabab Riadhi de Belouizdad S.s.p.a (Classical Arabic: الشّباب الرّياضيّ لبلوزداد, English Translation: Sporting Club of Belouizdad), known as ''Chabab Belouizdad'' or ''CR Belouizdad'' or simply ''CRB'' for short, is a ...

, and will be in 1974 and 1978 assistant coach of the Algeria national football team he will return to the USM El Harrach at the end of his mission in 1978 and remained there until 1980 where it will join the USM Alger and which he will win his second Cup Algeria by

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, it will access the club the following season D1 at the same time, it will go in 1982 club algerois to reach the Wydad Boufarik before returning to train youth categories. He died on 2 December 1993 in Mustapha Bacha hospital in

Honours

Club

; JS Kabylie * Ligue Nationale du Football Amateur (1): 1967-68 * Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 (1): 1968-69 ; MC Alger *

(1): 1971–72 *

Algerian Cup The Algerian Cup ( ar, كأس الجزائر) also known the Republic Cup ( ar, كأس الجمهورية), is a football competition in Algeria, pitting regional teams against each other. It was established in October 1962, three months after in ...

(1): 1970–71 *

Maghreb Cup Winners Cup The Maghreb Cup Winners Cup was a North African football competition organized by the Union Maghrebine de Football (UMF) and which regrouped the cup winners from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya (only in the first edition). Mauritania at ...

(1): 1972 ; USM Alger *

(1): 1980–81 * Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2 (1): 1980-81

References

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