Tedj Bensaoula

Tedj Bensaoula (Arabic تاج بن سحاولة; born December 1, 1954 in Algeria ) is a former Algerian football player. He played 37 games for the Algerian national team.

Club career

He was born in the Algerian countryside, in 1958 the family moved to Hammam Bouhadjar where Bensaoula learned to play football. Initially, he worked as a French teacher. Only in 1977 he moved to MC Oran and began his career as a football player. There he had to prevail against various competitors, scoring very many goals, but received in his first time no payment. After the playful successful 1982 World Cup, many Algerian players move to Europe, as well Bensaoula. In 1983 he signed for French second division club Le Havre AC. In his first season he scored eight goals as a midfielder and also prepared numerous goals from Philippe Prieur and Patrick Martet. As a third of the time the second split second league team in 1984 playoffs achieved namely by the rise, but failed it. The following year, succeeded in rising to the first division. Due to injury, ran Bensaoula in his only Erstligasaison only 18 times on. In 1986 he left the club and signed with the USL Dunkerque second-rate. Again he suffered injuries and only came on 14 missions, then a year later his playing career ended. In 1993 he received his coaching license. Henceforth, he coached several Algerian clubs to 2000 he was assistant a few times of the Algerian national team coach Rabah Madjer.

National

In qualifying for the African Cup Bensaoula played on June 24, 1979 for the first time for his country when he was deployed in a 3-1 win against Libya. In the same year he scored during the Mediterranean Games in Yugoslavia in a 1-1 draw against France its first unofficial international goal. The first official goal followed on March 16, 1980 against Guinea ( 3:2) when he scored a brace equal. In the 1982 World Cup, he came in all three games of Algeria for use and scoring one goal. Four years later he was allowed to play in a World Cup again. So that his career ended in the national team.