Mbark Boussoufa
Moubarak " Mbark " Boussoufa ( born August 15, 1984 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch -born Moroccan football player.
Club career
The attacking midfielder Mbark Boussoufa comes from the world famous Art School of Ajax Amsterdam. From there he moved in 2002 for one million euros to England to reserve Chelsea. Two years later Boussoufa went for 220,000 euros to Belgium to KAA Gent, where he was equally honored in 2006 with four awards. In addition to Belgium and Morocco's Footballer of the Year award, he was also young players of Belgium and of the best African player of the season. After these successes Mbark Boussoufa moved in 2006 to RSC Anderlecht. Also the Belgian giants to Boussoufa established in the starting lineup and was under coach Franky Vercauteren for service providers. His first goal for his new club, he shot on September 30, 2006 in the 1:4 defeat against KRC Genk. Boussoufa shortened assisted by Yves Vanderhaeghe on the intermediate 1:2. With 8 goals and 13 assists the Moroccans was instrumental in the championship of Anderlecht at the end.
The following season he failed with his club in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League 2007 /08 the Turkish Fenerbahce representatives and thus slipped into the UEFA Cup. There it managed to Anderlecht after all, down to the second round and then was eliminated by the German record champions FC Bayern Munich. One was runner-up in the league and should thereby have no chance against Standard Liege, who had lost only one of the 34 season games. Boussoufa belonged to Anderlecht with 5 goals and 10 assists again the most striking players. But again, he retired with his club in the qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League 2008 /09 from. This time failed Anderlecht in the Belarusian BATE Borisov representatives. In the Jupiler League, there should be a heart -stopping final against the defending champion Standard Liege against it. After the season, both teams were level on points, which is why the Master had to be played in two play-off matches. After the 1-1 draw Liège decided the second game 1-0 for themselves and thus defended his championship title. Boussoufa midfielder scored 11 goals in the season and prepared 13 more ago. After all, Anderlecht won the national cup for himself. In the final game they won 3-2 against Boussoufas former club KAA Gent. Only a few days after these turbulent games, he extended his contract until 2012.
In the 2009/10 season Anderlecht was after the two runner-up again the ne plus ultra of the Belgian first division. Scored the most goals, get the fewest goals and 12 points clear of FC Bruges meant the easy qualification to the new geschaffenenen Cup qualification. There Boussoufas club started with half of the points earned in the championship. None of the 10 playoff games was lost ( 7 wins, 3 draws ) and Anderlecht won the 30th championship in their history. Mbark Boussoufa contributed nine goals this season in the league and 5 more in the championship playoffs in and was once again instrumental in this success. In addition, he was awarded after 2006 and 2009 for the third time with the ebb Houten Schoen for the best African footballer of the Jupiler Pro League. In the UEFA Champions League 2009/10 his club failed in the third qualifying round against Olympique Lyon in France and therefore moved to the UEFA Europa League. There, the club reached the second round and then lost almost against Hamburger SV.
National
Mbark Boussoufa had the choice between the Dutch and the Moroccan national team and ultimately chose for the Moroccan. On 23 May 2006 he played his first match against the USA.
Achievements
- Title: Belgian Champion: 2007 and 2010
- Belgian Supercup winner: 2007
- Belgian Cup winner: 2008
- Belgian Golden Shoe in 2006 and 2010
- Belgium's young player of the year 2006
- Morocco's Footballer of the Year 2006