Zineb Redouani
Moroccan footballer (born 2000)
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Zineb Redouani (Arabic: زينب رضواني; born 12 June 2000) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a defender for AS FAR and the Morocco women's national team.
 Redouani with Morocco in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 12 June 2000[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Meknes, Morocco | ||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | AS FAR | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2017 | CSM Toulal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2020 | Raja Aïn Harrouda | ||
| 2020– | AS FAR | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017–2020 | Morocco U20 | 17 | (6) |
| 2018– | Morocco | 42 | (2) |
Medal record | |||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23:50, 5 December 2023 (UTC) | |||
Club career
AS FAR
Redouani first played with Raja Aïn Harrouda,[2] before joining AS FAR in 2020.[3] She has won two Championships and two Throne Cups. She was part of the team which competed in the 2021 CAF Champions League.[4]
Redouani participated in AS FAR's championship-winning campaign in the 2022 CAF Champions League. During the second game against Green Buffaloes F.C., she received a straight red card after an VAR review of her foul on Natasha Nanyangwe.[5]
International career
Youth
2019: African Games
Redouani played with the Morocco U-20s at the 2019 African Games in Rabat where Morocco won the bronze medal. She recorded a goal off a penalty kick in the third place match against Algeria.[6] In the same year, she won the 2019 UNAF U-20 tournament in Tangier with the team.
Senior
Redouani was called up for the first team in 2018.[7] She has capped for Morocco at senior level during the Aisha Buhari Cup.[3] She played in the UNAF Tournament organized in Tunis in February 2020, which Morocco won.
2022 Africa Cup of Nations
She was part of the 26-woman squad who participated in the 2022 African Cup of Nations. Redouani started the final, which Morocco lost 2–1 to South Africa.[8] She was injured and replaced by her teammate at AS FAR, Ghazlan Shahiri. As a result of being runners-up, Morocco won their first qualification for the FIFA World Cup.
2023 FIFA World Cup
Redouani started all three games of the group stage at the 2023 FIFA World Cup.[9] She scored an own goal in Morocco's opening match in which they lost 6–0 to Germany.[10]
Honours
AS FAR
- Moroccan Championship (4): 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Moroccan Throne Cup (4): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- UNAF Champions League (2): 2021, 2024
- CAF Champions League (1): 2022; runner up: 2024
Morocco U20
- UNAF U-20 Tournament: 2019
Morocco
- Africa Cup of Nations runner-up: 2022[11]
- UNAF Tournament: 2020
Individual
