Yazid Mansouri
Yazid Mansouri (Arabic يزيد منصوري, DMG Yazīd Mansuri; born February 25, 1978 in Revin ) is a former Algerian footballer and current football official. The defensive midfielder was born in France between June 2005 and June 2010 -budgetary captain of the Algerian national team.
Sports career
Mansouri, whose parents came from out of the in the region Kabylia ten kilometers south-east of Tizi Ouzou remote Larbaa Nath Ouacif, grew up in the French Reims Métropole - Located in the Champagne- Ardenne - and played there in his youth football for a lower class club with the name Tinqueux SC. At the age of 17, he hired the AC Le Havre, the young talent in France enjoyed a good reputation ( the renowned " graduates " of the club were with Ibrahim Ba, Lassana Diarra, Florent Sinama Pongolle, Vikash Dhorasoo, Guillaume Hoarau, Anthony Le Tallec and Steve Mandanda not a few " immigrant background "). With a mostly unspectacular play that primarily focuses on winning the ball in the center, denied the defensive midfielder for two years in the reserve team of " Le HAC " before the right-footer on the opening day of the 1997/98 season as a substitute in the second half against Olympique Marseille came to his debut in Ligue 1.
At the latest in the season 1999/2000 is Mansouri conquered in Le Havre a regular place, which he expanded after the disappointing relegation in the same year in two years, second-rate to 2002 to a leadership role. As after returning immediately followed further in the major league with the renewed decline a check, the club loaned him for the season 2003 /04 to the English second division club Coventry City. There he completed 14 League Appearances before the end, before it came to a dispute, since it Mansouri was to participate in the African Cup of 2004 in January and February. The leadership of Coventry City then broke immediately the contract and Mansouri remained until the end of the season de facto without a club.
With the French second division club LB Châteauroux, however, took place in the summer of 2004, soon a new employer, and in two years he was here in league games not only 63 times in the starting lineup of "La Berri ", but was in season 2005/ 06 also team captain. Other highlights were his first two appearances in the UEFA Cup against FC Bruges, for which the club had qualified in 2004 as a finalist of the French Cup. Mansouri joined at the beginning of the 2006/07 season again in the Ligue 1 team FC Lorient for after had previously been intense speculation about a transfer to Bulgaria.
In Brittany he played from then on with his Algerian national team mates Rafik Saïfi, developed with 92 inserts League in three years immediately to " evergreen" and helped the team to solid midrange places. After Saïfis departure to Qatar in 2009, also Mansouri time tended to an end. The 2009/10 season, which described it as the last in the port city südbretonischen this was characterized by alternating rumors. One of targeted changes to the Spanish upper house to Deportivo La Coruna but had just as smashed in summer 2009 and in winter a possible transfer to Burnley FC in the English Premier League. In Lorient, he came last no longer beyond the status of a supplementary player.
From July 2010, he played for the Qatari club Al- Sailiya.
In January 2012, he joined the Algerian CS Constantine. After he no longer came into use towards the end of the first round in 2012/13, his contract was already dissolved a year later, on January 1, 2013. Shortly thereafter, he announced end of his career.
Algerian national
From a young age was the then coach and " Algerian national hero " Rabah Madjer Mansouri mentor and after friendlies against FC Zurich and the ES Troyes AC in 1999 left him Madjer on 6 October 2001 against France in the Parc des Princes stadium for the first time in an official international match the Algerian national team accrues. It followed in the years 2002 and 2004 appearances at the Africa Cup, which both ended prematurely in the first round and in the quarter-finals. With its durable and quiet play, however, he developed leadership skills that in June 2004, a year later finally the captain of the " Desert Foxes " made him after two " short Promotions ". With its quiet temperament he led at times to " hot-blooded " acting Algerian selection in 2010, with the semi-finals in the " African Cup " and the first qualification for a World Cup after 24 years of the greatest sporting achievements of the country in the recent past. Form weak but did not Mansouri at the World Cup finals in South Africa for the course and after the tournament he announced his retirement from international football known.
After the active career
Since the end of February 2013 Mansouri works as a sports coordinator and board member of the Algerian Football Federation.