Allal Ben Kassou

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Surname Allal Ben Kassou
birthday November 30, 1941
place of birth Rabat ,  Morocco
date of death October 29, 2013
Place of death Rabat ,  Morocco
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1959–? FAR Rabat
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964-1974 Morocco 116 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Allal Ben Kassou , often just called Allal , (born November 30, 1941 in Rabat , † October 29, 2013 ibid) was a Moroccan football player .

Athletic career

Ben Kassou played his entire playing career at FAR Rabat , which he joined in 1959. Between 1961 and 1964, the goalkeeper won the national league title four times in a row with the club, followed by other championships in 1967, 1968 and 1970.

Between 1964 and 1974, Ben Kassou played in the Moroccan national team , with which he took part in the 1964 Olympic football tournament , the 1970 World Cup , the 1972 African Championship and the 1972 Olympic football tournament . At the World Cup finals in 1970, he played two games in the group stage, at the end of which the team was eliminated as bottom group. The last group game played Mohamed Hazzaz , who was also the goalkeeper at the 1972 Olympics. He played a total of 116 international matches . In 1972 Ben Kassou was also in goal in a Maghreb selection, which won a tournament on the occasion of the inauguration of Stade 5 Juillet in 1962 in Algiers .

In 1970, Ben Kassou finished seventh in the vote for Africa's Footballer of the Year .

After the end of his career, Ben Kassou worked as a goalkeeper coach for FAR Rabat, IZK Khémisset and Maghreb Tétouan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Football: disparition de Allal Ben Kassou, légendaire gardien de but du Maroc  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , fr.afrikinfos.com@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fr.afrikinfos.com  
  2. ↑ Décès de Allal Ben Kassou, ex-international et gardien de but de l'AS FAR (1941-2013) ( Memento of the original of December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sport-maroc.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sport-maroc.com
  3. ↑ Inauguration Stade 5 Juillet 1972 (Alger) , rsssf.com
  4. ^ African Player of the Year 1970 , rsssf.com
personal data
SURNAME Ben Kassou, Allal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allal (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rabat , Morocco
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2013
Place of death Rabat , Morocco