Mustapha Yaghcha (born 7 November 1952) is a retired Moroccan

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

defender.

Career

Yaghcha played club football for Difaa El Jadida in the

Botola The Botola Pro ( ar, البطولة الاحترافية, translit=al-buṭūla l-iḥtirāfiyya), is a Moroccan professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the Moroccan football league system, it is the country's prima ...

. He also played for

CS Chênois Club Sportif Chênois is a Swiss association football club, playing in the Swiss 2. Liga Interregional. It plays in the municipality of Thônex. History Formed in 1907 as FC Thônex, the club adopted its current name in 1924. The club compete ...

and

Servette FC Servette FC is a Swiss football club based in Geneva, founded in March 1890 with rugby as its first sporting activity, and named after the Geneva district of the same name. The football section was created on 17 January 1900. They play in the S ...

in the

Swiss Super League The Swiss Super League (known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a Swiss professional league in the top tier of the Swiss football league system and has been played in its current format since the 2003–04 season ...

. Yaghcha played for the

Morocco national football team The Morocco national football team,french: Équipe du Maroc de football nicknamed "the Barbary lion, Atlas Lions", represents Morocco in men's international Association football, football competitions. It is controlled by the Royal Moroccan Foo ...

at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.

References

1952 births Living people Moroccan men's footballers Men's association football defenders Difaâ Hassani El Jadidi players CS Chênois players Servette FC players Botola players Swiss Super League players Olympic footballers for Morocco Morocco men's international footballers Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics 1978 African Cup of Nations players Moroccan expatriate men's footballers Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Moroccan football managers Difaâ Hassani El Jadidi managers Botola managers {{Morocco-footy-bio-stub