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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 5/2014


Personal information
Full name:
Sabri Lamouchi

Date of birth:
November 9, 1971

Place of birth:
Lyon, France

Height:
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Playing position:
Midfielder

Current:
Côte d'Ivoire: Manager

Youth career:

AS Lyon-Duchère: 1977-1981

Cascol Oullins: 1982-1989

Senior career*

Alès: 1990-1994
106x apps / 26x goals

Auxerre: 1994-1998
129x apps / 19x goals

Monaco: 1998-2000
56x apps / 4x goals

Parma: 2000-2003
90x apps / 7x goals

Internazionale: 2003–2005
16x apps / 0x goals 

→ Genoa (loan): 2004-2005
20x apps / 1x goals

Marseille: 2005-2006
36x apps / 5x goals

Al-Rayyan: 2006-2007
7x apps / 6x goals

Umm-Salal: 2007-2008
10x apps / 1x goals

Al-Kharitiyath: 2009

Total:
470x apps / 79x goals


National team
France: 1996-2001
12x apps / 1x goals

 

Teams managed
Côte d'Ivoire: 2012-
 

‡ appearances and goals correct as of 28 August 2006

Sabri Lamouchi (born 9 November 1971 in Lyon, France) is a former professional football who played as a midfielder.

Born in France of Tunisian descent, although he has never stepped foot in Tunisia. Lamouchi made twelve appearances for the France national football team.

From May 2012, he became manager of Côte d'Ivoire national team, his first managerial position.


Club career

Sabri Lamouchi started his professional career with Alès in France.

During his time there, he impressed Auxerre and played with them for four years.

He then went on to join Monaco before being snapped up by Parma of Italy. 

Even though he had an average season, he was again on the move this time to Italian giants Internazionale.

He struggled there, and failed to win a place in the team.

Lamouchi had a spell at Genoa before joining Olympique de Marseille on loan the following year.

In January 2006, the loan deal was made a permanent move. 

He played for Olympique de Marseille for six further months, until he announced that he was leaving the club on September 18, 2006, although his contract ran until June 2007.

Next, Lamouchi moves to Al-Rayyan in the Qatari League, scoring a spectacular goal in his first match.

The next season, he moved on to Umm-Salal.

In January 2009, Lamouchi transferred to Al-Kharitiyath.

International career

Lamouchi was capped 12 times and scored one goal for the French national team. 

He made his debut in 1996 and was a member of the French European Championship squad the same year.

He was in France's preliminary squad of 28 players for the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil. 

However he was one of 6 players axed by head coach Aime Jacquet just before the tournament began.

France went on to be victorious in the tournament and become national heroes.