Hacène Lalmas (12 March 1943 – 7 July 2018), also known as El Kebch (The Ram), was an Algerian
footballer
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who played as a
midfielder
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.
Lalmas scored a record 131 goals in the
Algerian championship. He was also voted as the 14th-best African player of all time by the
CAF.
Club career
Although he started his career with
OM Ruisseau, Lalmas played most of his career for
CR Belouizdad
Chabab Riadhi Belouizdad (); known as CR Belouizdad or simply CRB for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Algiers, Algeria, that plays in the Ligue Professionnelle 1, the top flight of Algerian football. The club has com ...
and it was with
CRB. He led the club to four
league titles, three
cup
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titles and three
Maghreb Champions Cup titles.
On 22 October 1962, during his career with
OM Ruisseau, he scored 14 goals in his team's 18–0 victory over Birtouta, which is the record for most goals in one match in all top men's football leagues in the history,
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IFFHS up until 3 August 2007, when
Passang Tshering scored 17 goals in the
Bhutan A-Division, which was the only league in the country at that time.
Career statistics
International
:''Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.''
Honours
CR Belouizdad
*
Algerian league: 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971
*
Algerian Cup
The Algerian Cup () also known the Republic Cup (), is a football competition in Algeria, pitting regional teams against each other. It was established in October 1962, three months after independence, and has been played yearly since then apart ...
: 1966, 1969, 1970
*
Maghreb Champions Cup: 1970, 1971, 1972
Individual
* Algerian league top scorer: 1969–70
References
External links
Hacene LALMAS
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1943 births
2018 deaths
Algerian men's footballers
Algeria men's international footballers
Kabyle people
Footballers from Algiers
CR Belouizdad players
OMR El Annasser players
Competitors at the 1967 Mediterranean Games
1968 African Cup of Nations players
Men's association football midfielders
Mediterranean Games competitors for Algeria
African Games competitors for Algeria
21st-century Algerian people
20th-century Algerian sportsmen