Allal Benkassou Explained

Allal Benkassou
Fullname:Allal Benkassou
Birth Date:30 November 1941
Birth Place:Rabat, Morocco
Height:1.78 m
Position:Goalkeeper
Clubs1:FAR Rabat
Nationalyears1:1963–1972
Nationalteam1:Morocco[1]
Nationalcaps1:52
Nationalgoals1:0

Allal Benkassou, also spelled Kassou (Arabic: علال بن قصو; 11 November 1941 – 29 October 2013 in Rabat)[2] was a Moroccan footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Benkassou played club football for FAR Rabat.

Benkassou played for the Morocco national team at the 1964 Summer Olympics where he played against Yugoslavia and Hungary[3] and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup finals where he played against West Germany and Peru. He was an unused squad member at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He played 116 times for the Morocco football team.

In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.[4]

Also, Benkassou was a sergeant of the Moroccan Army.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/maro-recintlp.html Morocco - Record International Players
  2. Web site: Allal Benkassou n'est plus... - La Vie éco . 2022-11-11 . La Vie Eco . fr-FR.
  3. Allal Benkassou . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418120648/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/allal-ben-kassou-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 29 August 2009.
  4. Web site: Le Matin . Meilleur joueur des 50 dernières années 14 Marocains en lice . French . 13 October 2006 . 29 August 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055322/http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Journal/Article.asp?origine=jrn&idr=114&id=70173 . 16 July 2011.