Ouwo Moussa Maâzou (born 25 August 1988) commonly known as Moussa Maâzou, is a

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ien professional

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who plays as a striker for Luxembourgish club FC The Belval Belvaux.

Club career

Maazou began his senior career as a player with Niger's Army club,

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. In 2005–2006 Maazou scored 17 goals. In the 2006–2007 season with ASFAN, he scored 20 goals in 34 matches. In January 2008, Belgian side Sporting Lokeren signed him. He scored six goals in his first nine matches. On 3 January 2009, Maâzou signed a contract with

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. The club paid Sporting Lokeren €4.8 million for Maâzou. He was immediately loaned back to Lokeren until 1 July 2009. After CSKA qualified for the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup 2008–09, he was called back from the loan and on 12 March 2009 was registered as a CSKA player. In January 2010 Maâzou left Russia, signing a six-month loan deal, with an option for a permanent move when his loan spell ends, with

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. The following season Maâzou joined

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on a one-year loan, again with an option to purchase. At the end of January 2011 Maâzou returned to AS Monaco on another six-month, but after only one game injured his knee in training and would require surgery. In February 2012, Maâzou signed for

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on a six-month loan deal, before moving to Tunisian side

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on a three-year contract during the summer of 2012. After terminating his contract with Tunisian side

, Maâzou signed for

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in Portugal in July 2013. He switched to another Portuguese club, Marítimo in August 2014. On 28 January 2015, at that point the Portuguese top flight's second top goalscorer of the season with nine goals, Maâzou transferred to

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side Changchun Yatai. In February 2016, Maâzou moved to Danish side

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announced the signing of Maâzou on a one-year deal, with an option of a further year. A year later, on 31 August 2017, Maâzou signed for

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on a three-year contract. In December 2018, he agreed a mutual termination of his contract with

. On 23 September 2019 signed the

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club Sektzia Ness Ziona.

International career

In April 2015, Maâzou announced his retirement from the

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at the age of 26, after having earned 30 caps and scored seven international goals. He credited the dismissal of manager Gernot Rohr in the previous October as a reason for his decision. However, in October he returned to the national team, scoring two goals against

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in the campaign for 2018 World Cup.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Niger's goal tally first.''

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