Si-Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani (; born 10 July 1967) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a

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Career

Born in

Oran Oran () is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria. It is considered the second most important city of Algeria, after the capital, Algiers, because of its population and commercial, industrial and cultural importance. It is w ...

, Chérif El-Ouazzani started his career with hometown

MC Oran (), known as , commonly referred to as MC Oran for short, is an Algerian professional Association football, football club based in Oran. Founded on 1 January 1917, the club was known as Mouloudia Chaâbia Ouahrania from 1971 to 1977, Mouloudia P ...

in 1983. In his first season, he would lead the club to its first league title in 17 years. The following season he led the team to the final of the

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where they lost a controversial match-up on penalties to

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. He would play one more season for MC Oran, winning the

1990 African Cup of Nations The 1990 African Cup of Nations was the 17th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa ( CAF). It was hosted by Algeria. Just like in 1988, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four. Algeria won i ...

before signing his first professional contract with Turkish club Aydinspor, joining fellow Algerian

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in 1996 as well as back-to-back Arab Cup Winners Cups in 1997 and 1998. The following year they also won the

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, defeating Syrian side Al Jaish in the final. He played with MC Oran until his retirement in 2002. In 2003, he became coach of

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and was in control of the team until February 2008 when he was announced as the coach of MC Oran.

Personal life

Chérif El-Ouazzani is one of seven siblings; his brother

Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani Si-Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani (born 18 March 1986) is an Algerian football player. He currently plays for CA Bordj Bou Arréridj in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2. Playing career MC Oran Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani began his career ...

is also a professional footballer. Chérif El-Ouazzani's son

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is also a professional footballer and international for Algeria.

Honours

MC Oran * Algerian Championship:

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

; runner-up 1987, 1990, 1996, 1997, 2000 *

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 ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

; runner-up 1998, 2002 *

Algerian League Cup The Algerian League Cup () is an Algerian football competition organized by the Algerian Football Federation. It was established in 1991 and launched in January 1992. History The competition was established in the first edition in 1991-92 and wa ...

: 1996; runner-up 2000 * Arab Cup Winners Cup: 1997, 1998 *

: 1999 *

runner-up:

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

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runner-up:

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

USM Bel Abbès *

: 2018 ''(as a manager)'' Algeria *

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1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

Afro-Asian Cup of Nations The Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, also called the AFC Asia/Africa Challenge Cup, was an intercontinental football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between repr ...

: 1991 Individual *

African Footballer of the Year The African Footballer of the Year award, presented to the best African association football, footballer each year, has been conferred by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 1992. Samuel Eto'o and Yaya Touré have won the award the ...

: Silver award 1990 *

: 2nd best player

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cherif El-Ouazzani, Tahar 1967 births Living people Footballers from Oran Algerian men's footballers Algeria men's international footballers MC Oran players Raja CA players Aydınspor 1923 footballers Süper Lig players 1990 African Cup of Nations players 1992 African Cup of Nations players 1996 African Cup of Nations players Africa Cup of Nations–winning players Algerian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Algeria men's under-23 international footballers Men's association football midfielders Algerian football managers MC Oran managers ASM Oran managers RC Arbaâ managers Paradou AC managers USM Bel Abbès managers CR Belouizdad managers RC Relizane managers 21st-century Algerian people