Sofiane Feghouli
Algerian footballer (born 1989) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sofiane Feghouli (Arabic: سفيان فيغولي; born 26 December 1989) is a French-born professional footballer who plays for Turkish Süper Lig club Fatih Karagümrük and the Algeria national team. He mainly operates as a midfielder, but can also play as a winger and as an attacking midfielder.
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Full name | Sofiane Feghouli[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1989-12-26) 26 December 1989 (age 34) | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Levallois-Perret, France | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Fatih Karagümrük | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1998–2003 | Red Star Paris | ||||||||||||||||
2003–2004 | Paris FC | ||||||||||||||||
2004–2007 | Grenoble | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2007–2010 | Grenoble | 60 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2010–2016 | Valencia | 146 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
2011 | → Almería (loan) | 9 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | West Ham United | 21 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
2017–2022 | Galatasaray | 125 | (25) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | Fatih Karagümrük | 30 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2006–2007 | France U18 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | France U21 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2012– | Algeria | 81 | (19) | ||||||||||||||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 March 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 January 2024 |
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Feghouli made his senior international debut for Algeria in February 2012. He represented Algeria at the 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (winning the 2019 tournament), as well as the 2014 FIFA World Cup, where he scored Algeria's first goal in the competition since 1986.