Ali Benfadah Explained

Ali Benfadah
Birth Date:1935 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Zéralda, Algeria
Death Place:Algiers, Algeria
Position:Forward
Youthyears1:1947–1953
Youthclubs1:ES Zéralda
Years1:1953–1955
Clubs1:ES Zéralda
Years2:1955–1956
Clubs2:GS Alger
Years3:1956–1957
Clubs3:ASOA Valence
Years4:1957–1959
Clubs4:Olympique Alès
Years5:1959–1960
Clubs5:Angers
Years6:1962–1963
Clubs6:Angers
Years7:1963–1964
Clubs7:Toulon
Years8:1964–1965
Clubs8:Hydra AC
Years9:1965–1967
Clubs9:MC Alger
Nationalyears1:1960–1962
Nationalteam1:FLN
Nationalcaps1:27
Nationalyears2:1962–1964
Nationalteam2:Algeria
Nationalcaps2:4
Manageryears1:1964–1965
Managerclubs1:Hydra AC
Manageryears2:1965–1967
Managerclubs2:MC Alger
Manageryears3:1967–1969
Managerclubs3:JS Kabylie
Manageryears4:1969–1970
Managerclubs4:Hydra AC
Manageryears5:1970
Managerclubs5:USM El Harrach
Manageryears6:1970–1972
Managerclubs6:MC Alger
Manageryears7:1972–1973
Managerclubs7:JS El Biar
Manageryears8:1973–1974
Managerclubs8:CR Belouizdad
Manageryears9:1974–1978
Managerclubs9:Algeria (assistant)
Manageryears10:1978–1980
Managerclubs10:USM El Harrach
Manageryears11:1980–1982
Managerclubs11:USM Alger
Manageryears12:1982–1983
Managerclubs12:WA Boufarik
Manageryears13:1987–1988
Managerclubs13:ESM Koléa
Manageryears14:1990
Managerclubs14:USM Alger
Manageryears15:1992
Managerclubs15:USM Alger

Ali Benfadah (1935 1, df=yes –)[1] was an Algerian international footballer and manager who played as a forward.

Life and career

Born in 1935 in the small suburb tourism of Algiers, Zéralda, Ali quickly between the world of football, since signing in 1947 in the sports Zéralda Star, in which he will make all his classes as that hope and junior before joining the seniors in 1953 for the following two seasons. He left to join the ES Zéralda Gallia Algiers 1955. He will leave for work experience side Association Sportive Valencia in 1956, club he will leave soon to join the club Olympique Ales (where he will meet the one Ms. Bernon become his wife Micheline) and finally the Sporting d'Angers in 1959. The Order of the FLN football team Ali will be there from the beginning. He managed to join in Tunis this famous eleven of Independence and played two season. At independence of the Algeria in 1962, Benfedah returns to the Sporting d'Angers before taking the direction of Sporting Toulon Var the following season. He will return in 1964 in Algeria like player-coach of Hydra Athletic Club, and won the title of his division in the first season, and dolphin in its second season. He then fly to the Mouloudia Algiers in 1965, which was the sentence 2 division but Ali still succeed in winning the championship of the East group, which allows access to D1. He will end his playing career in 1967 when he goes cause Youth Sports Kabyle, with which he managed the feat of getting the D3 until the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 in just two years. He returned to 1969 to Hydra AC as a coach, and next season he will start with the result USM El Harrach, before returning to the Mouloudia Algiers, where he will win the Algerian Cup 1971 and Maghreb Cup winners' Cup in the same year, he will lead thereafter the JS El Biar on CR Belouizdad, and will be in 1974 and 1978 assistant coach of the Algeria national football team he will return to the USM El Harrach at the end of his mission in 1978 and remained there until 1980 where it will join the USM Alger and which he will win his second Cup Algeria by 1981, it will access the club the following season D1 at the same time, it will go in 1982 club algerois to reach the Wydad Boufarik before returning to train youth categories. He died on 2 December 1993 in Mustapha Bacha hospital in Algiers.

Honours

Club

JS Kabylie
MC Alger
USM Alger

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Newspaper clipping. 3 May 2023. photobucket.com.