Rachid Azzouzi
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 Azzouzi in 2015. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 10 January 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Taounate, Morocco | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Hertha Mariadorf | |||
| Alemannia Mariadorf | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1989 | 1. FC Köln reserves | ||
| 1989–1995 | MSV Duisburg | 111 | (4) |
| 1995–1997 | Fortuna Köln | 43 | (0) |
| 1997–2003 | Greuther Fürth | 156 | (27) |
| 2003 | Chongqing Lifan | 11 | (0) |
| 2004 | Greuther Fürth | 12 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 1990–1998 | Morocco | 37 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rachid Azzouzi (Arabic: رشيد عزّوزي) (born 10 January 1971) is a Moroccan former football midfielder and current sporting director. Raised in Germany, he represented Morocco at international level.
Azzouzi was born in Taounate, Morocco, and moved as a child with his family to Germany. He was raised in Rhineland.[2][3]
Club career
Azzouzi began playing as a youth for Hertha and Alemannia Mariadorf. In 1988, he moved to 1.FC Köln, where he would play for one year. He later played for several clubs, including MSV Duisburg from 1989 to 1995, Fortuna Köln for two years and then for SpVgg Greuther Fürth, but before which he played for half a year for Chongqing Lifan in China.[4] In total, he played 260 second division games, in which he scored 30 goals. In his 64 Bundesliga games for MSV Duisburg he scored three times.[5][6] In the 2004–05 Season he was coach of the Fürther U-17-Jugendmannschaft and was relegated with the team from the B-Jugend-Regionalliga.[4]
International career
He played for the Morocco national football team and was a participant at the 1992 Summer Olympics,[7] 1994 FIFA World Cup and at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
