Mehdi Benabid
Moroccan footballer (born 1998)
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El Mehdi Benabid (Arabic: مهدي بنعبيد; born 24 January 1998) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Botola Pro club Wydad AC.
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| Full name | El Mehdi Benabid[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 24 January 1998[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rabat, Morocco | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Wydad AC | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 16 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2017 | FUS Rabat | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2023 | FUS Rabat | 100 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | → Ittihad Khemisset (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2025 | AS FAR | 32 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Wydad AC | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Morocco U20 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Morocco U23 | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2025 | Morocco A' | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Morocco | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:57, 27 August 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20:57, 26 May 2023 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Career
Benabid is a youth product of FUS Rabat since 2007, and worked his way up their youth categories. For the 2017–18 season, he was loaned out to Ittihad Khemisset in the Botola 2 where he began his senior career. He returned to FUS Rabat in 2018, where he became a regular in their squad.[2]
International career
Benabid was first called up to the Morocco U20s in 2017. In March 2019, he was called up to the Morocco U23s for a set of friendlies.[3] He was called up for a set of 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches, in which the Morocco U20s missed qualification.[4] In November 2019, he was suspended because of an altercation with a referee and banned from football for 3 months.[5] In June 2021, he was called up to the Morocco A' national team for a set of friendlies.[6]
In March 2022, Benabid receives his first call-up to the senior Morocco national team.[7] On 28 December 2023, Benabid was amongst the 27 players selected to represent Morocco in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.[8][9]
Personal life
On 9 September 2023, Benabid along with his national teammates donated their blood for the needy affected by the 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake.[10][11][12]