Aziz Ben Askar
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Aziz Ben Askar | ||
| Date of birth | 30 March 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Château-Gontier, France | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Umm-Salal (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sablé[1] | |||
| Stade Laval[1] | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2003 | Stade Laval | 140 | (4) |
| 2001–2002 | → Queens Park Rangers (loan) | 18 | (0) |
| 2003–2006 | Caen | 76 | (5) |
| 2006–2007 | → Al-Shamal (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2007–2010 | Umm-Salal | 44 | (1) |
| 2010–2011 | Al-Wakrah | 6 | (0) |
| Total | 293 | (10) | |
| National team | |||
| 2006–2007 | Morocco | 14 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2014–2015 | Stade Mayennais (U17) | ||
| 2015–2016 | AS Bourny Laval | ||
| 2018–2019 | AC Ajaccio (U19) | ||
| 2019– | Umm-Salal | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
Aziz Ben Askar (born 30 March 1976) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a defender and manager of Umm-Salal.
Ben Askar played for Stade Lavallois and Stade Malherbe Caen in France, Queens Park Rangers F.C. in England, and for Al-Shamal Sports Club, Umm Salal Sport Club, and Al-Wakrah Sport Club in Qatar. At international level, he represented the Morocco national football team.
Coaching career[]
After retiring, Ben Askar started working as a football agent.[2][3] However, he stopped as an agent because he missed being on the pitch and instead started working toward his coaching license.
Ben Askar started his coaching career with the U17 team of Stade Mayennais.[1] In mid-2015, Ben Askar also began working for UNFP FC (Union Nationale des Footballeurs)[4][5] as well as being appointed manager of AS Bourny Laval, which also was a part of the process to get his license.[6] In May 2016 he announced that he would not continue at Bourny because he wanted to try something new with more adrenaline.[7] Ben Askar also left UNFP in 2017.
In the summer 2018, Ben Askar had several offers but preferred to stay in France. He was then appointed manager of AC Ajaccio's U19 team.[4] In November 2019, he was appointed manager of his former club, Umm Salal SC, in Qatar.[8]
References[]
- ^ a b c Aziz Ben Askar, l'entraîneur des jeunes espoirs, ouest-france.fr, 25 February 2015
- ^ "Je suis fier d'eux, fier d'être l'entraîneur du Bourny", laval.maville.com, 3 December 2015
- ^ MARTIN MIMOUN : « POSTULER À UNE PLACE DE TITULAIRE », stade-lavallois.com, 16 January 2013
- ^ a b AZIZ BEN ASKAR : « IL Y A UN PROJET AMBITIEUX AU NIVEAU DE LA FORMATION », actufoot.com, 4 July 2018
- ^ COUP D'ENVOI DE L'UNFP FC 2015, unfp.org, 22 June 2015
- ^ Ben Askar : « Le terrain me manquait », ouest-france.fr, 2 June 2015
- ^ Pascal Pouthier, nouvel entraîneur de l’AS Laval Bourny, footamateur.fr, 14 May 2016
- ^ We'll work to improve Umm Salal's reputation: Ben Askar, qsl.qa, 6 November 2019.
External links[]
- Player profile - L'Equipe.fr at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 December 2006)
- Aziz Ben Askar at National-Football-Teams.com
  | This biographical article related to Moroccan football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Moroccan footballers
- Moroccan football managers
- Morocco international footballers
- French people of Moroccan descent
- Stade Lavallois players
- Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
- Stade Malherbe Caen players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Moroccan expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in England
- Umm Salal SC players
- Al-Shamal SC players
- Al-Wakrah SC players
- Association football defenders
- People from Château-Gontier
- Sportspeople from Mayenne
- Expatriate football managers in Qatar
- Umm Salal SC managers
- Qatar Stars League managers
- Moroccan football biography stubs