Faouzi Ghoulam

Faouzi Ghoulam
Faouzi Ghoulam (2017)
Personnel
birthday	February 1, 1991
place of birth	Saint-Priest-en-Jarez ,  France
size	188 cm
position	Left full-back
Juniors
Years	station
1998-1999	Nouvelle-Défense Saint-Étienne
1999-2010	AS Saint-Etienne
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2014	AS Saint-Etienne	87 (1)
2014–	SSC Naples	131 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2012	France U-21	1 (0)
2013–	Algeria	37 (5)
1 Only league games are given. Status: October 7, 2019 2 As of October 7, 2019

Faouzi Ghoulam ( Arabic فوزي غلام, DMG Fauzī Ġulām ; * February 1, 1991 in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez , Loire department ) is a French - Algerian football player who has been under contract with the Italian first division club SSC Napoli since the beginning of 2014 . He is also a national player for Algeria and mainly plays as a left full-back .

Career

societies

Born in France to Algerian parents , Ghoulam began playing football at the age of seven at Nouvelle-Défense Saint-Étienne and continued it a year later in the youth department of AS Saint-Étienne. At the age of 19 he moved up to the first team, for which he made his debut on September 22, 2010 in the Coupe de la Ligue , the French cup competition, in a 2-0 home win against OGC Nice . On December 1, 2010 (13th matchday) he finally made his 66-minute debut in Ligue 1 , France's top division, in a 1-1 draw in the away game against Valenciennes FC . His only point goal he scored on September 24, 2013 (7th matchday) in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game against Olympique Marseille with the goal of the final score with a penalty in the 32nd minute.

On January 31, 2014, his move to SSC Napoli was announced, where he signed a contract dated June 30, 2018. The transfer fee was five million euros. He made his debut in Serie A , the top division in Italy, on February 2, 2014 (22nd matchday) in the 3-0 defeat in the away game against Atalanta Bergamo .

National team

On June 2, 2012 Ghoulam completed his first international match when he won with the U-21 national team in the qualifying match for the U-21 European Championship 2013 in Sedan against the selection of Latvia 3-0. A little later, however, he said that he would like to play for the selection of Algeria , his parents' home country, in the future . He was then appointed to the squad for the Africa Cup 2013 in January 2013 ; in the three group matches that his team finished fourth and eliminated from the tournament, he was not used. On March 26, 2013, he played his first international match, which was won in Blida , in the qualifying match for the 2014 World Cup , 3-1 against Benin . On November 19, 2013, he was able to qualify for the 2014 World Cup with Algeria, with a 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso , preparing the winning goal by Madjid Bougherra with a free kick . He scored his first international goal on January 19, 2015 in a 3-1 win in the first group game of the African Championship over the selection of South Africa with the goal to make it 2-1 in the 73rd minute.

successes

• Italian cup winner 2014 , 2020

Web links

• Faouzi Ghoulam in the database of weltfussball.de
• Faouzi Ghoulam in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Il Napoli ufficializza l'acquisto di Ghoulam