Mehdi Bourabia (born 7 August 1991) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Born in France, he represents the Morocco national team.

Club career

Bourabia was born in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

, Côte-d'Or. He started his career with

Grenoble Foot 38 Grenoble Foot 38, commonly referred to as simply Grenoble or GF38, is a French association football club based in Grenoble. The club plays its home matches at the Stade des Alpes, a sports complex based in the heart of the city, and wears whit ...

and made his professional debut for the club on 7 November 2009 in a Ligue 1 game against

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

. In June 2015, Bourabia signed a two-year contract with

Cherno More Varna Cherno More ( bg, Черно Море) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in the city of Varna, which currently competes in Bulgaria's primary football competition, the First League. Founded on March 3, 1913, as an asso ...

. On 12 August, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory over Ludogorets Razgrad in the

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match an ...

. On 11 January 2016, Bourabia signed with

Levski Sofia Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 ...

on a three-year deal. On 22 June 2017, he was sold to Turkish club

Konyaspor Konyaspor Kulübü (, Konya Sports Club) is a Turkish professional football club based in Konya. They are better known as Konyaspor. In 1922 Konyaspor were founded with the name Konya Gençlerbirliği and have played at their current home stadium ...

for a fee around 500 000 €. On 17 July 2018, Bourabia signed with

Sassuolo Sassuolo (; egl, label= Modenese, Sasól ) is an Italian town, ''comune'', and industrial centre of the Province of Modena in Emilia-Romagna. Standing on the right bank of the river Secchia some southwest of Modena, the town is best known f ...

for a fee around €2 million. On 30 August 2021, Bourabia joined

on a season-long loan with an obligation to buy.

International career

Bourabia was born in France and is of Moroccan descent. He debuted for the Morocco national football team in a 2–2 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification draw against Comoros on 16 October 2018.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Cherno More *

: 2015 Konyaspor *

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