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Personal information | |||
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Full name | El Mehdi Benabid | ||
Date of birth | 24 January 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Rabat, Morocco | ||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | AS FAR | ||
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– | AS FAR | 12 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2017 | Morocco U20 | 2 | (0) |
2018–2019 | Morocco U23 | 6 | (0) |
2021–2022 | Morocco A' | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:57, 27 August 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:57, 26 May 2023 (UTC) |
El Mehdi Benabid ( Arabic: مهدي بنعبيد; born 24 January 1998) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Botola club AS FAR.
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. [1]
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. [2] He was called up for a set of 2021 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches, in which the Morocco U20s missed qualification. [3] In November 2019, he was suspended because of an altercation with a referee and banned from football for 3 months. [4] In June 2021, he was called up to the Morocco A' national team for a set of friendlies. [5]
In March 2022, Benabid receives his first call-up to the senior Morocco national team. [6] On 28 December 2023, Benabid was amongst the 27 players selected to represent Morocco in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. [7] [8]
On 9 September 2023, Benabid along with his national teammates donated their blood for the needy affected by the 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake. [9] [10] [11]
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