Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani

Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani
	TCO with MP Oran in 1985
Personal information
Full name	Si-Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani
Date of birth	10 July 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Oran, Algeria
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1980–1983	MC Oran
Senior career*
Years	Team
1983–1990	MC Oran
1990–1992	Aydınspor
1992–1993	MC Oran
1993–1995	Raja Casablanca
1995–2002	MC Oran
International career
1984–1996	Algeria
Managerial career
2003–2008	OM Arzew
2008	MC Oran
2009–2010	ASM Oran
2010–2011	MC Oran
2013–2014	RC Arbaâ
2015–2016	Paradou AC
2016–2018	USM Bel-Abbès
2018	CR Belouizdad
2019–2020	MC Oran
2020–2021	RC Relizane
2021–2022	Paradou AC
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Si-Tahar Chérif El-Ouazzani (Arabic: سي الطاهر شريف الوزاني; born 10 July 1967) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.^[1]

Career

Born in Oran, Chérif El-Ouazzani started his career with hometown MC Oran in 1983. In his first season, he would lead the club to its first league title in 17 years. The following season he led the team to the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs where they lost a controversial match-up on penalties to Raja Casablanca. He would play one more season for MC Oran, winning the 1990 African Cup of Nations before signing his first professional contract with Turkish club Aydinspor, joining fellow Algerian Djamel Amani at the club. He played two season in Turkey before returning to Algeria. The following year he would lead MC Oran to the league title for a second time before leaving again, this time for Moroccan side Raja Casablanca. After two trophy-less years in Morocco, he returned for a third stint with MC Oran. He would lead the team to the Algerian Cup in 1996 as well as back-to-back Arab Cup Winners Cups in 1997 and 1998. The following year they also won the Arab Super Cup, defeating Syrian side Al Jaish in the final. He played with MC Oran until his retirement in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, he became coach of OM Arzew and was in control of the team until February 2008 when he was announced as the coach of MC Oran.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Chérif El-Ouazzani is one of seven siblings; his brother Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani is also a professional footballer.^[2] Chérif El-Ouazzani's son Hichem Chérif El-Ouazzani is also a professional footballer and international for Algeria.^[3]