Driss Bamous (15 December 1942 – 16 April 2015) was a
Moroccan football midfielder
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. He was also a trained professional soldier at the military academy of
Saint Cyr,
France
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.
Career
Bamous played club football for
FAR Rabat
Association sportive des Forces armées royales (, ar, الجمعية الرياضية للقوات المسلحة الملكية), commonly known as AS FAR ( ar, نادي الجيش الملكي), is a professional sport club based in Morocco's ...
in the
Botola. Bamous played for the
Morocco national football team at the
1964 Summer Olympics and at the
1970 FIFA World Cup finals. Following his playing career, Bamous became the president of the
FRMF and organized the
1988 African Cup of Nations in Morocco.
In 2006, he was selected by
CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years. He was promoted to
brigadier general
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of the
Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie
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in 2003.
Death
Bamous died in
Rabat from a long-term illness.
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1942 births
2015 deaths
Moroccan footballers
Morocco international footballers
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Morocco
Competitors at the 1967 Mediterranean Games
People from Berrechid
Moroccan generals
Association football midfielders
Botola players
AS FAR (football) players
AS FAR (football) managers
Moroccan football managers
Mediterranean Games competitors for Morocco
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