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.