Imane Saoud ( ar, إيمان سعود, born 6 June 2002) is a Moroccan professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Swiss Women's Super League
The Swiss Women's Super League is the highest-level league competition for women's football clubs in Switzerland. It was established in 1970 (formerly named Nationalliga A).
League winners qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League. The team ...
club
Servette
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and the
Morocco women's national team.
Club career
Saoud has played for
FC Vendenheim
Football Club Vendenheim Alsace is a French football club from Vendenheim founded in 1927. It is best known for its women's team, created in 1974. It was one of the sixteen founding members of the French Championship that same year, in France and for
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
in Switzerland.
[ She currently plays for Servette.
Saoud played for Basel during the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons. She played 43 games and scored 9 goals.]Élodie Nakkach
Nahla Élodie Nakkach ( ar, نهلة ائلودي نقاش; born 20 January 1995) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swiss Women's Super League club Servette.
Life
She was born and raised in France to Moroccan parents ...
.
She recorded her first goal in her first match with Servette, a friendly on 3 August 2022 against Olympique Lyonnais
Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...
. She played her first official match of the season in the preliminary round of the Champions League where she came in as a substitute in the 56th minute against Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
. She played her first league match of the season on 27 August 2022 where she provided two assists against Young Boys. She recorded her first goal of the season on 5 November 2022 when she opened the scoring against Young Boys. She scored 5 goals during the 2022/23 season.
International career
Saoud began her international career with the French youth team. She participated in qualifiers for the U-17 European Championship.
In February 2021, she received her first call-up to the Morocco national team for training. Saoud made her senior debut for Morocco on 10 June 2021 in a 3–0 friendly home win over Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
.Reynald Pedros
Reynald Pedros (born 10 October 1971) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He currently manages the Morocco women's national team.
Club career
Pedros was born in Orléans, Loiret, and is of Sp ...
to compete at the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations
The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations ( ar, كأس الأمم الإفريقية للسيدات 2022, french: Coupe d'Afrique des nations féminine 2022), (also referred to as WAFCON 2022) officially known as the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Afric ...
, where Morocco finished second and qualified for the World Cup.
In preparation for the 2023 Women's World Cup, Saoud was selected to attend an October 2022 training camp in Spain where Morocco faced Poland and Canada. She featured in Morocco's 0-4 loss to Canada.
See also
* List of Morocco women's international footballers
References
External links
*
2002 births
Living people
Footballers from Casablanca
Moroccan women's footballers
Women's association football midfielders
FC Basel Frauen players
Swiss Women's Super League players
Morocco women's international footballers
Moroccan expatriate women's footballers
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate women's footballers in Switzerland
Moroccan emigrants to France
People with acquired French citizenship
French women's footballers
France women's youth international footballers
French expatriate women's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
French sportspeople of Moroccan descent
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