Jamal Alioui ( ar, جمال عليوي; born 2 June 1982) is a former professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

and current head coach of French Championnat National 2 side

GOAL FC Grand Ouest Association Lyonnaise Football Club (''short'': GOAL FC, or Goal FC) is a French association football club founded in 2000. It took its current name in 2020 when Monts d'Or Azergues Foot merged with smaller amateur clubs ''Tassin FC'', ...

. He formerly played for Perugia Calcio,

Calcio Catania Catania S.S.D., commonly known as Catania, is an Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in . Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the club boasts 17 appearances in the ...

F.C. Crotone Football Club Crotone S.r.l., commonly referred to as Crotone, is an Italian football club based in Crotone, Calabria. They play in the third division of Italian football, the Serie C. Founded in 20 settembre 1910, it holds its home games at Stadi ...

, FC Metz, FC Sion,

FC Nantes Football Club de Nantes (; Gallo: ''Naunnt''), commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes (), is a French professional football club based in Nantes in Pays de la Loire. The club was founded on 21 April 1943, during World War II, a ...

Wydad Casablanca Wydad Athletic Club ( ar, نادي الوداد الرياضي, ) commonly referred to as Wydad AC and known as Wydad, or simply as WAC, is a Moroccan sports club based in Casablanca. Wydad AC is best known for its professional football team that ...

in the Moroccan league and

Al-Kharitiyath Al Kharaitiyat Sport Club ( ar, نادي الخريطيات) is a Qatari sports club based in the town of Al Kharaitiyat, best known for its football team of the Qatari Second Division. They won the Second Division in 2004 and played in the Qat ...

in the

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Playing career

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 ...

, Loire, Alioui chose to play for

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...

because of his Moroccan background and ancestry. He was the captain of the Morocco team at the

2004 Olympic The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

, behind group winners

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

and runners-up

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Managerial career

Alioui retired at the end of the 2015–16 season due to a recurrent pain in his hip. He began as a coach for the U17 squad of French club FC Rive Droite. In the summer 2017, Aliuoi was hired as assistant manager for AS Miserieux Trevoux. In the summer 2018, he was appointed manager of AS Bron Grand Lyon. Ahead of the 2019–20 season, he was appointed manager of FC Vaulx-en-Velin. On 9 January 2020, it was reported, that Alioui would resign to sign for a new challenge. Two days later, Alioui reveled, that he had been appointed assistant coach of João Aroso for Morocco U20 national team. In June 2021, Aliouli was appointed head coach of French Championnat National 2 side

Honours

Perugia *

UEFA Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from la, Inter, 'between' + german: toto, 'betting pool'),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. often abbreviated and more known in the German-speaking world as UI Cup and originally called the International Foot ...

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Sion *

Swiss Cup The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup tournament that has been organised annually since 1925–26 by the Swiss Football Association. Since 1999 the winner earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Europa Conference L ...

: 2008–09

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