Fabien Boudarène (born 5 October 1978) is a French former professional

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of Algerian origin who played as a defensive midfielder. Born in

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...

, Boudarène began his career with the local

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, helping the team to a promotion to

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in 1999. In 2001, he moved to

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Football Club Sochaux-Montbéliard (; commonly referred to as FCSM or simply Sochaux) is a French association football club based in the city of Montbéliard. The club was founded in 1928 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second tier of Frenc ...

and played for the club until 2006, when he was transferred to Ligue 2 side Dijon FCO. In June 2007, Boudarène was acquired by the Bulgarian club PFC Litex Lovech.

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