Isâad Bourahli (born 23 March 1974) is an Algerian former
football
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player who plays as a
striker. Bourahli spent most of his football career in
ES Setif and
USM Alger
Union Sportive de la Médina d'Alger (); known as USM Alger or simply USMA for short, is a Association football, football club based in the inner suburbs of Algiers. The club was founded in 1937 and its colours are red and black. Their home sta ...
and won the league's top scorer in the
2000–01 season with ES Setif.
Personal life
Isâad Bourahli was born and raised in Boumerchi neighborhood in
Setif, Bourahli lost his father when he was eight months and his mother when he was six years old and was raised by his older brother. After retiring from football, Bourahli entered the field of commerce in buying and selling and also works sometimes in analysis through
El Heddaf TV
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, Bourahli His first marriage was with the sister of
Kheïreddine Madoui a former player with him in
ES Setif but then they divorced, and married again in 2005 and has three children including the oldest Yasser Abdelkader a football player, Bourahli is a loyal fan of
MC Alger
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like his son Yasser although he is also a fan of
ES Setif from his home city.
Club career
Isâad Bourahli his first vacation was with the University of Setif and then to
ES Setif in 1987–88 while he was younger, in the
1991–92 season Bourahli played his first match with senior, which was in
Guelma
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and since that match became a key player in the team, in 1994 an incident happened to him with
Abdelhamid Kermali in a match against
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 ...
in
Bologhine Stadium. Ten minutes after the start of the match the coach took him out Bourahli took off his shirt and threw it on Kermali's face. Then he apologized to him and said in one of his statements that it was a mistake and he regretted it. and after three years he left for
MC Alger
Mouloudia Club d'Alger (), 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 stadium, Ali La Pointe Stadium, has a capacit ...
in an experience that only lasted one season and only played three matches, because of family problems Bourahli returned to Setif.
Then Bourahli moved to
CS Constantine
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the club is close to his residence which was what he was looking for, although the majority of the managers refused to come because of his injury except for the club's president Mohamed Boulahbib, and in the first season he won the first title in his history by winning the
League
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title.
Three seasons after his departure Bourahli returned to the heart team
ES Setif and although he did not play the first roles he was his gateway to the
national team
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, Bourahli also won in the last season the league top scorer with 16 goals, the first of its kind for an
ES Setif player since the
1975–76 season. During a friendly match in Tunisia Bourahli held negotiations with
Slim Chiboub
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president of
Espérance de Tunis :''See also Esperance (disambiguation)''
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, but due to the lack of agreement on the financial aspect Bourahli decided to return to Algeria where he signed with
USM Alger
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. In his second season Bourahli starred and led
USM Alger
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to win the
league
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and
cup
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double for the first time, in the
Algerian Cup
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of the same season Bourahli scored his first hat-trick with
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in the semi-final against
MC Oran
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, and at the end of the year in the struggle for the
Ballon d'or
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Conceived ...
, Bourahli lost it to his former club teammate
Amar Ammour.
On July 22, 2004, Bourahli signed for USM Alger for two seasons after announcing his departure from
ES Setif. At the end of the season, Bourahli won the
Division 1 title for the fourth and third time with USM Alger, With the departure of
Mamadou Diallo to France, Bourahli received an offer from the
Emirati club
Al-Ahli but
Saïd Allik refused to leave and told him that if he left he would leave the club without a striker, and that was his last chance to play outside Algeria.
Once again Bourahli returned to
ES Setif after one season and led him to fourth place and ensured
Arab Champions League
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F ...
participation, and was the team's top scorer that season. In the following season
ES Setif starred in the
Arab Champions League
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F ...
and Bourahli was the captain of the team where
Les Aigles Noirs won the title for the first time in its history and received the cup from the hand of the brother of the King of Jordan, the first international title in his career. To conclude the season by winning the
Division 1 title, which is the fifth league title in his career and his last. On July 22, 2007, Bourahli returned again to USM Alger for one season according to information confirmed by the club's president
Allik, He said of him that he is an experienced player who can still give a lot to the team and that he has always made a good impression on us.
International career
Isâad Bourahli's career with the
national team
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was not great despite the great potential he had, and his first match was against
Cape Verde
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in the
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
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, where he scored his first goals with the Algeria in a match that ended in a 2–0 victory. In one of the matches in the
African Cup qualifiers against
Angola
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, Bourahli stated that he participated strongly in that match and that his level is better than some of the players they called up. During one of the stages a misunderstanding occurred with
Rabah Madjer
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He reached stardom as a Porto
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the coach of the
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at the time, because Bourahli and
Hichem Mezaïr
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Career
Mezaïr was a member of the Algerian 2004 African Nations Cup team, which finished second in its group in the first round of competition before being defeat ...
arrived two minutes late for breakfast which made him ask him to dismiss him, the reason for this anger is that the day before the players of
JS Kabylie
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arrived an hour late and he did not reprimand them. His last match with the national team was on February 9, 2005, in a friendly match against
Burkina Faso
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which ended in a 3–0 victory, Bourahli finished his career with 16 matches and scored 4 goals.
Career statistics
Club
International
International goals
:''Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first.
Honours
USM Alger
*
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
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:
2001–02,
2002–03,
2004–05
*
Algerian Cup
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:
2002–03
CS Constantine
* Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1:
1996–97
ES Setif
* Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1:
2006–07
*
Arab Champions League
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F ...
:
2006–07
Individual
*
Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 top scorer:
2000–01
References
External links
*
DZFoot ProfileThis is my life Isâad Bourahliat YouTube.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bourahli, Isaad
1974 births
Living people
Algerian men's footballers
Algeria men's international footballers
Footballers from Sétif
ES Sétif players
USM Alger players
CS Constantine players
MC Alger players
Men's association football forwards
21st-century Algerian people