- Yazid Mansouri
Infobox Football biography
playername = Yazid Mansouri
fullname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1978|2|25
cityofbirth =Revin
countryofbirth =France
height = height|m=1.75
nickname =
position =Midfielder
currentclub =FC Lorient
clubnumber = 23
youthyears = 1994-1995
1995-1997
youthclubs = "Tinqueux SC"Le Havre AC
years = 1997-2003
2003-2004
2004-2006
2006-
clubs =Le Havre AC Coventry City F.C. LB Châteauroux FC Lorient
caps(goals) = 134 (2)
14 (0)
63 (2)
67 (0)
nationalyears = 2001-
nationalteam = Algeria
nationalcaps(goals) = 48 (0)
pcupdate = September 25, 2008
ntupdate = September 25, 2008Yazid Mansouri ( _ar. يزيد منصوري) (born February 25, 1978 in
Revin ,France ) is anAlgeria n football player who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for FrenchLigue 1 sideFC Lorient . [http://www.lfp.fr/joueur/index.asp?no_joueur=11362] [http://www.dzfoot.com/joueur.php?joueur_id=489&saison_id=14]Club Career
Mansouri began his career at "Tinqueux SC", a small team from
Tinqueux who were playing in the sixth division. At age 17, he left the club and signed withLe Havre AC who were playing inLigue 1 , where he spent his first two seasons playing in the reserve side. He made his debut in the first game of the 1997-1998 season, coming as a second half substitute againstOlympique de Marseille . He would slowly assert himself at the club and would eventually go on to make 134 appearances and scoring 2 goals in 6 seasons in bothLigue 1 andLigue 2 .At the start of the 2003-2004 season, Mansouri was loaned out for the season to English
Championship sideCoventry City F.C. . [http://www.sportinglife.com/football/nationwide1/coventry/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/03/08/20/manual_170140.html&TEAMHD=coventry] Mansouri made 14 appearances in the first half of the season before leaving, against the clubs wishes, to play for Algeria at the2004 African Cup of Nations inMali . His contract was subsequently terminated and he remained without a club for the rest of the season. [http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=137182]In the summer of 2004, Mansouri signed with
Ligue 2 sideLB Châteauroux where he easily imposed himself in the middle of the park. He would go on to make 63 appearances for the club, starting every one of them, and scoring 2 goals. He was also the captain of the team in the 2005-2006 season.At the beginning of the 2006 season, Mansouri signed a 2-year contract with
Ligue 1 sideFC Lorient . [http://www.dzfoot.com/news.php?hot_id=1777]International Career
Mansouri first featured for the Algerian national team in a set of friendlies against
FC Zurich and ES Troyes in 1999. He received his first official call-up to the national team on November 6, 2001 in a friendly game against France inParis . He was a member of the Algerian team at the2002 African Cup of Nations and the2004 African Cup of Nations .He is currently the captain of the team and also the most capped player on the team.
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