Nadir Belhadj
Belhadj in the World Cup match against the United States (2010)
Nadir Belhadj (Arabic نذير بلحاج, DMG Nadir Bilḥāǧ; born June 18, 1982 in Saint -Claude ) is an Algerian- French football player who currently plays for Al -Sadd in Qatar. He plays the position of full-back.
Career
Belhadj began his career in 1999 at RC Lens, where he but only in the reserve team was used. Until his departure in 2003, he played a single game for the A- team. 2002 is first gave it to the second division FC Gueugnon, where he became a regular player. After the end of the lending agreement in the summer of 2003 Gueugnon bought the player. However, he played only one season with the Yellow, before it was bought in 2004 by CS Sedan. With the Sangliers he made in 2006 the rise in the Ligue 1, where he was noticeable with good benefits and has been committed by the former champions Olympique Lyon in January 2007. But instead of using it directly in your own team, you gave him for the next half year back to Sedan. With his 100th match on 26 May 2007 ( 0-1 against Olympique Marseille ), he retired from Sedan and moved to the old and new masters to Lyon.
Even after half a year he left Lyon and joined RC Lens and ended up with the club at the end of the season the relegation zone. In September 2008, he was loaned out for a year to Portsmouth and convinced there so that he was obliged to 4.5 million euros. With Portsmouth he played in the UEFA Cup 2008/ 09, but already retired on the group stage. 2010 increased the southern English club, which had in the meantime filed for insolvency, starting from the Premier League. file for bankruptcy. By reaching the FA Cup final against Chelsea, which was lost 0-1, still a success was recorded. For the 2010/11 season Belhadj joined Al -Sadd in the Qatar Stars League.
At international level, denied Nadir Belhadj, who took in the juniors for France, his first senior international game for Algeria on 28 April 2004 against China. In the Africa Cup 2010 he was expelled and banned for violent conduct against an Egyptian player of the field. In the summer of that year he was in Algeria's squad for the World Cup in South Africa. In the preliminary round from the games he played against England and Slovenia.
Achievements
- French Cup Finalist 2005
- FA Cup finalists in 2010