Jaouad Zairi

Jaouad Zairi (Arabic جواد الزايري, DMG Ǧawār az- Zāyirī; born April 14, 1982 in Douar Jjalla, Morocco) is a Moroccan football player.

Career

The Attacking Allrounder began at age 18 his career as a professional football player in the French second division side FC Gueugnon. Jaouad Zairi got in Ligue 1 attention and was his club FC Gueugnon after one year, according to the 2000 /01 season, leave in favor of the French first division club FC Sochaux. At FC Sochaux he became a regular player, not least because of its fascinating ball technology in the form of dribbling, of which his coach but were not always as enthusiastic as the audience.

In 2004, it managed Zairi in the Moroccan national team squad, along with the other two stars Marouane Chamakh and Youssouf Hadji. These wild Atlas Lions were almost unbeatable because they won from the preliminary round to the semi-finals almost every game and with only two goals. Only in the final two were added on.

Zairi was during the African Cup of shooting star and darling of the country. Morocco managed with the new young generation up to the final, where they lost to the host Tunisia narrowly (2-1).

In the World Cup qualifying group match against Kenya in 2005 Zairi succeeded a hat-trick. However, Morocco failed to qualify for the World Cup in Germany, since Tunisia thanks to an own goal in the Moroccan final and decisive game of the group draw 5 played ( 2:2 ). Thus, Tunisia stood at the top with one point ahead of Morocco. It became apparent that the team had not quite reached the level of generation of the world championship 199. In the season 2005/ 06 Jaouad Zairi played for the Saudi first division club Al -Ittihad Jeddah. He then played in the 2006/07 season at Boavista. Then he moved on loan to French club FC Nantes, which, however, the purchase option is not laid claim after six months. He then played until the end of 2011 in Greece, where he won in 2011, the Greek Cup with Olympiakos Piraeus, six months for Anorthosis Famagusta in Cyprus and Oman. After a non-contracting state time and some tryouts with professional clubs, but - as with Real Valladolid - did not lead to a commitment that he joined in early 2014 the French fourth division Monts d'Or Chasselay Azergues, where he with other aged former international such as Ludovic Giuly and Sidney Govou is in a team.