Walid Cherfa ( ar, وليد شرفة; born 19 February 1986) is a French professional

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who plays as a

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for French club Toulouse Rodéo.

Career

Cherfa was born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, France. He holds both French and Algerian nationalities. A

Toulouse FC Toulouse Football Club is French professional football club based in Toulouse. The club was founded in 1970 and currently plays in Ligue 1, the premier division of French football. Toulouse plays its home matches at the Stadium de Toulouse lo ...

youth graduate, he appeared sparingly for the first team during the 2006–07 season in

Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

, subsequently serving a stint with third division club

Tours FC Tours Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tours (), is a French association football club based in Tours, the capital city of the Indre-et-Loire department. The club was formed in 1919 and currently play at the fifth level of French ...

. On 26 June 2008, Cherfa moved to Spain and joined

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

in the second level on a two-year contract. On 23 June 2010, having been sparingly used during his tenure, he signed a 1+1 deal with another side in that country and category,

Girona FC Girona Futbol Club, S.A.D. is a professional football club based in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded on 23 July 1930, it plays in La Liga, to which they gained promotion in the 2022 Segunda División play-offs. Girona holds its home matches at ...

. In late December 2010, without having appeared in any competitive matches for Girona, Cherfa terminated his link with the

Catalans Catalans (Catalan language, Catalan, French language, French and Occitan language, Occitan: ''catalans''; es, catalanes, Italian language, Italian: ''catalani'', sc, cadelanos) are a Romance languages, Romance ethnic group native to Cataloni ...

and signed for

Albacete Balompié Albacete Balompié is a Spanish football team based in Albacete, in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. Founded on 2 August 1940, it currently plays in Segunda División, the second tier of Spanish football, holding home matches ...

, also in the Spanish division two. On 16 August of the following year, he agreed to a two-year deal with

Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 The Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 ( ar, الرابطة الجزائرية المحترفة الأولى لكرة القدم); known as Championnat National de Première Division or Ligue 1 for short, and formerly known as the Championnat Natio ...

side

MC Alger Mouloudia Club d'Alger ( ar, نادي مولودية الجزائر), referred to as MC Alger or MCA for short, is an Algerian football club based in Algiers. The club was founded in 1921 and its colours are red, green and white. Their home sta ...

. On 1 January 2012, Cherfa was released by the club. In August 2012 he joined

Kalloni F.C. Akadimia Podosfairou Lekanopediou Kallonis, commonly referred to Kalloni, was a Greek association football club based in Kalloni, Lesbos. They have competed in the Super League Greece from 2013 to 2016. History The club was established in 1994 af ...

in the Greek second tier, and subsequently competed in the French lower or amateur leagues.

Personal life

Cherfa's older brother, Sofyane, was also a footballer and a defender. He too played most of his career in France.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cherfa, Walid 1986 births Living people French sportspeople of Algerian descent Footballers from Toulouse Algerian men's footballers French men's footballers Men's association football defenders Ligue 1 players Championnat National players Championnat National 3 players Toulouse FC players Tours FC players Toulouse Rodéo FC players Segunda División players Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers Girona FC players Balma SC players Toulouse Fontaines Club players Albacete Balompié players Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players MC Alger players Football League (Greece) players AEL Kalloni F.C. players Algerian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Greece