Abdelhafid Tasfaout

Hafid Tasfaout

Abdelhafid Tasfaout (2013)
Personal information
Full name	Abdelhafid Tasfaout
Date of birth	February 11, 1969
Place of birth	Oran, Algeria
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1981–1982	SONATIBA Oran
1982–1984	MC Oran
1985–1986	SNCF Oran
1986–1987	ASM Oran
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1987–1990	ASM Oran	–	(–)
1990–1995	MC Oran	145	(50)
1995–1998	Auxerre	35	(5)
1997–1998	→ Guingamp (loan)	25	(6)
1998–2002	Guingamp	129	(17)
2002–2003	Al-Rayyan	13	(6)
National team
1990–2002	Algeria	87	(36)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Abdelhafid Tasfaout (born February 11, 1969 in Oran, Algeria) is a retired Algerian footballer. A midfielder, he was the captain of the Algerian national football team for five years.

Career

Tasfaout suffered a life-threatening head injury during the 2002 African Cup of Nations in Mali after he clashed with Boubacar Diarra of Mali. An ambulance was driven onto the pitch to give assistance and at the time many of his team-mates feared he had been killed. However, he made a complete recovery and it was confirmed that he suffered a broken nose and a swallowed tongue.^[1]

Tasfaout is the Algeria national football team's all-time best scorer with 36 goals.^[2][3]

Honours

Personal

• Best goalscorer with the Algeria team with 35 goals
• Best Algerian player with MC Oran in 1992, 1993 and 1994
• Best goalscorer in the Algeria Ligue 1 with MC Oran in 1992 and 1993 with 17 goals

Club

• Won the Algerian league twice with MC Oran in 1992 and 1993
• Won the French Ligue 1 with AJ Auxerre in 1996
• Won the Coupe de France with AJ Auxerre in 1996
• Ruuner-up the Coupe de France with EA Guingamp in 1997

References

1. Gleeson, Mark. "Algeria's Tasfaout recovers after swallowing tongue". ESPN. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
2. "Slimani s'attaque au record de Tasfaout". Le Temps d'Algérie. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
3. Holstein, Dick and Owsianski, Jarek. "Abdelhafid Tasfaout - International Goals". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 4 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2009.

External links

• Abdelhafid Tasfaout at National-Football-Teams.com