Lakhdar Belloumi
Lakhdar Belloumi (born December 29, 1958 in Muaskar ) is a former Algerian football player and coach .
The technically gifted midfielder Belloumi had his breakthrough in 1980 when he became the top scorer in the African Cup and reached the final against hosts Nigeria with the Algerian national team . At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , he reached the quarterfinals with Algeria. 1981 Belloumi qualified with the national team for the first time for a soccer world championship and was voted Africa's Soccer Player of the Year . At the subsequent World Cup in Spain , the then 24-year-old scored the winning goal in Algeria's first World Cup game in a 2-1 win against Germany , the then current European champions . His team was tied with Germany and Austria at the end of the preliminary round , but retired due to the worse goal difference. See also: Gijón Non-Aggression Pact
Belloumi took part in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico four years later . Here Algeria was in a group with Brazil, Spain and Northern Ireland and was eliminated in the preliminary round as the group bottom.
From July 23, 2005 to December 31, 2005 he was Algeria's national coach.
Web links
- Lakhdar Belloumi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belloumi, Lakhdar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muaskar |