Habib Draoua

Habib Draoua
	Habib Draoua in the 1970s
Personal information
Full name	Hadj Habib Derbouz Draoua
Date of birth	1914
Place of birth	Oran, Algeria
Date of death	29 October 2008 (aged 93–94)
Place of death	Oran, Algeria
Position(s)	Midfield
Senior career*
Years	Team
1934–1937	USM Oran
1937–1945	Le Havre AC
1945–1946	ES Tunis
1946–1950	Stade Tunisien
Managerial career
1945–1946	ES Tunis
1946–1951	Stade Tunisien
1951–1957	CS Hammam-Lif
1957	ALN
1957–1960	Tunisia
1964–1965	MC Oran
1970–1971	ASM Oran
1982–1983	MC Oran
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hadj Habib Derbouz Draoua (Arabic: حاج حبيب دربوز دراوة ; 1914 – (2008-10-29)29 October 2008), commonly known as Habib Draoua and also called Hadj Draoua was a professional Algerian footballer who played as a midfielder. He was also a manager.^[1]

Life and career

Habib Draoua was born in Mdina Jdida in the city of Oran in 1914. Very young, he joined USM Oran which was then the greatest Algerian Muslim club, where he did all his youth classes. He played his first senior match at the age of 20 in 1934. In 1937 he joined Le Havre AC, he remained in France until 1945 and the end of the Second World War. In 1945, he joined Tunisia as a coach-player at ES Tunis before being transferred to the CS Hammam Lif where he won two Tunisian Cups in 1951 and 1954. He stopped his football career in 1950, after winning two Tunisian championship titles in 1957 and in 1960 with the Stade Tunisien.

In 1957, he participated for the creation of the Algerian National Liberation Army football team (ALN Football Team) which resulted a year later in the creation of the FLN football team. He prepared tours, such as those of Syria, Iraq and Jordan.^[2]

He was a national ma,ager of Tunisia national team from 1957 to 1960. He was thanked and honored in 1960 with a "Silver Medal" by the Tunisian Football Federation and the Ministry of Sports of Tunisia for the services rendered to Tunisian football. He returned to Algeria after independence in 1962, and coached the two greatest clubs of the city of Oran, MC Oran and ASM Oran during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

Honours

Player

USM Oran

Oran Championship: 1935
North African Championship: Runners-up: 1935

Le Havre AC

French Division 2: 1938

Coach

CS Hammam-Lif

Tunisian National Championship: 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956
Tunisian Cup: 1951, 1954, 1955

Tunisia

Pan Arab Games: Runners-up: 1957

Individual

Silver Medal: by the FTF and the Ministry of Sports of Tunisia: 1960

References

^ "Draoua nous a quittés". El Watan (in French). R. S. 2 November 2008.
^ "Un seul but : l'indépendance de l'Algérie." El Watan (in French). 13 April 2016. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

External links

Player profile - leballonrond.fr

[1] "Draoua nous a quittés". El Watan (in French). R. S. 2 November 2008.

[2] "Un seul but : l'indépendance de l'Algérie." El Watan (in French). 13 April 2016. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

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