Allal Benkassou, also spelled Kassou ( ar, علال بن قصو; 11 November 1941 – 29 October 2013 in

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

) was a Moroccan

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 ...

who played as a goalkeeper. Benkassou played club football for FAR Rabat. Benkassou played for the Morocco national team at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

where he played against Yugoslavia and Hungary and at the

1970 FIFA World Cup The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...

finals where he played against West Germany and Peru. He was an unused squad member 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. ...

. He played 116 times for the Morocco football team. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years. Benkassou was also a

sergeant Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt. and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and other uni ...

of the Moroccan Army.

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* * * 1941 births 2013 deaths Moroccan men's footballers Footballers from Rabat Men's association football goalkeepers Morocco men's international footballers 1970 FIFA World Cup players 1972 African Cup of Nations players Footballers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Morocco Competitors at the 1963 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1967 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1971 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Morocco Botola players AS FAR players 20th-century Moroccan people {{Morocco-footy-goalkeeper-stub