Faouzi Mansouri
Faouzi Mansouri (Arabic فوزي منصوري; born January 17, 1956 in Menzel Bourguiba, Tunisia ) is a former Algerian football player who spent his entire career with French clubs, but ran aground internationally for his country.
Club career
Mansouri lived as a small child in Algeria until he fled with his parents due to the war in Algeria to Southern France. As a teenager, he played for Olympique Nimes and moved in 1974 under coach Firoud squad with 18 years in the Erstligamannschaft on. In the first two seasons, he was employed in a team led by players such as the French international Bernard Boissier only sporadically, but was in the course of the season 1976/77 to establish in the team. Although Mansouri could accumulate in midfield as much usable time player, he was ousted in the aftermath again until he disputed with a single game at Nîmes played no role in the season 1979 /80.
As a result, he returned to the club in 1980 and signed the back of the second division club AS Béziers. Unlike earlier in Nimes he scored there to the performers, giving him out to return to the first division helped a year when the Montpellier HSC players took them under contract. In the relegation battle with Montpellier, it was mainly the violation of Patrick Baldassara that allowed him regular inserts. In 1982 he had relegation to the second division suffered and was then able to continue to occupy the left side of defense.
In 1983, the Algerian signed with league rivals FC Mulhouse, where he recorded relatively frequent missions over the length of two years, but failed on the rise. In 1985, he returned to his former club are still second-class from Montpellier; because he had to share space on the defensive with his compatriot Radouane Abbes, he could no longer permanently settle in the team and missed beyond the rise. A year after his return Mansouri decided in 1986 at age 30 after 77 Erstligapartien with two goals and 111 second-division games with five goals for ending his career. This he did for two more years at a club unterklassigen from Uzès finish near Nîmes. Later he went back to Algeria and devoted himself to the education of young footballers.
National
On October 13, 1981 Mansouri succeeded in a 2-0 the Algerian national team against Nigeria with 25 years of his debut for the selection of his home country. A few months later, he was considered for the 1982 World Cup, during which he competed in all three group matches on the court; as a result of Shame of Gijón, he left with his team at the end. Apart from various friendship and qualifying matches he took part in the 1984 and 1986 African Cup of Nations in 1984 and reached the third place. Even following his fully coated 1986 End of career, he was appointed in the summer of the same year in the squad for the World Cup 1986. Again he ran on in all games and resigned from Algeria in the first round. The 0-3 defeat in the final group game against Spain on June 13, presented at the same time represent his last 22 official international games in which he scored a goal. There were eleven unofficial games against club teams.