Tedj Bensaoula

Tedj Bensaoula
1986
Personnel
birthday	December 1, 1954
place of birth	Algeria
size	182 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1977-1983	MC Oran
1983-1986	Le Havre AC	71 (16)
1986-1987	USL Dunkerque	14 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1979-1986	Algeria	37 (13)
1 Only league games are given.

Tedj Bensaoula ( Arabic تاج بن سحاولة; * December 1, 1954 in Algeria ) is a former Algerian soccer player . He completed 37 games for the Algerian national team .

Club career

The player was born in the Algerian countryside and in 1958 the family moved to Hammam Bouhadjar , where Bensaoula learned to play football. At first he worked as a French teacher. It was not until 1977 that he switched to MC Oran , where he began his career as a football player. There he had to assert himself against various competitors and scored a lot of goals, but received no payment in his first time. After the playfully successful World Cup in 1982 , many Algerian players moved to Europe, including Bensaoula. In 1983 he signed with the French second division club Le Havre AC . In his first season he scored eight goals as a midfielder and also prepared numerous goals from Philippe Prieur and Patrick Martet . As third in the then second division, the team reached the qualifying games for promotion in 1984, but failed. In the following year, he was promoted to the first division . Due to injury, Bensaoula only ran 18 times in his only first division season. In 1986 he left the club and signed with the second-class USL Dunkerque . Again he suffered from injuries and only came to 14 missions, whereupon he ended his active career a year later. In 1993 he made his coaching license . From then on he coached several Algerian clubs, around 2000 he was assistant to the Algerian national coach Rabah Madjer several times .

National team

In qualifying for the Africa Cup , Bensaoula played for his home country for the first time on June 24, 1979, when he was used in the 3-1 win against Libya . In the same year he scored his first unofficial international goal in a 1-1 draw against France during the Mediterranean Games in Yugoslavia. The first official goal followed on March 16, 1980 against Guinea (3-2), when he immediately scored a double. At the 1982 World Cup, he was used in all three Algerian games and scored one goal. Four years later he was allowed to play again at a World Cup . This ended his career in the national team.

Bensaoula was also a member of the Algerian selection , which in 1980 in Moscow at the Olympic football tournament took part and was eliminated in the quarterfinals.

Web links

• Tedj Bensaoula in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tedj Bensaoula  ( 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. , afterfoot.fr  
2. ↑ Data on footballdatabase.eu
3. ↑ Les statistiques de Tedj Bensaoula , dzfootball.free.fr