Yassine Benrahou

Yassine Otmane Benrahou (born 24 January 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as midfielder for Nîmes Olympique. Born in France, Benrahou is a youth international for Morocco.

Yassine Benrahou
Benrahou in October 2017
Personal information
Full name Yassine Otmane Benrahou
Date of birth (1999-01-24) 24 January 1999
Place of birth Le Blanc-Mesnil, France
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Nîmes
Number 22
Youth career
2005–2008 Aulnay FC
2008–2009 Villepinte FC
2009–2011 Bondy AS
2011–2012 Paris Saint-Germain
2012 Bondy AS
2012–2014 Créteil
2014–2019 Bordeaux
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2020 Bordeaux II 45 (10)
2019–2020 Bordeaux 10 (0)
2019–2020 → Nîmes (loan) 9 (2)
2020– Nîmes 0 (0)
National team‡
2014–2015 France U16 6 (2)
2016 France U17 1 (0)
2018 Morocco U20 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 July 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 4 May 2019

Club career

On 6 August 2018, Benrahou signed his first professional contract with Bordeaux, keeping him at the club for three seasons.[1] He made his professional debut with in a 3–2 Ligue 1 loss to Olympique Lyonnais on 26 April 2019.[2]

Benrahou joined Nîmes Olympique permanently from Bordeaux June 2020, after he spent the second half of the 2019–20 season on loan at the club. He signed a three-year contract while Nîmes paid a transfer fee of €1.5 million to Bordeaux.[3]

International career

Benrahou was born in France to a Moroccan father and Algerian mother.[4] A former youth international for France, he switched and represented the Morocco U20s in a pair of 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualification matches in March 2018.[5][6]

References
  1. "Yassine Benrahou est professionnel !". Girondins.com. 6 August 2018.
  2. "Girondins de Bordeaux - Olympique Lyonnais (2-3) - Saison 2018/2019 - Ligue 1 Conforama". www.lfp.fr.
  3. "Girondins de Bordeaux : Yassine Benrahou officiellement transféré à Nîmes". Sud Ouest (in French). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  4. farid. "Le Maroc chippe encore 2 joueurs à l'Algérie - DZBallon L'actu du football Algérien".
  5. http://www.footmercato.net/ligue-1/info-fm-a-la-decouverte-de-yassine-benrahou-jeune-gaucher-adroit-des-girondins-de-bordeaux_219799
  6. "Yassine Benrahou en sélection". Girondins.com. 14 March 2018.
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