Djamel Menad

Djamel Menad (Arabic: جمال مناد; 22 July 1960 – 22 March 2025) was an Algerian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Djamel Menad

Menad in 1986
Personal information
Date of birth	(1960-07-22)22 July 1960
Place of birth	El Bayadh, Algeria
Date of death	22 March 2025(2025-03-22) (aged 64)
Place of death	Algiers, Algeria
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1975–1977	JS El Biar
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1977–1981	CR Belouizdad
1981–1987	JS Kabylie
1987–1990	Nîmes	78	(27)
1990–1992	Famalicão	58	(17)
1992–1993	Belenenses	26	(3)
1993–1994	Al-Najma
1994–1996	JS Kabylie
1996–1997	USM Alger
International career
1980–1995	Algeria	81	(25)
Managerial career
1995–1996	JS Kabylie (playing assistant)
2005	USM Alger
2005–2006	USM Annaba
2008–2009	JSM Béjaïa
2011–2012	CR Belouizdad
2012–2013	MC Alger
2014	Al-Wehda Club
2016	MC Alger
2017–2018	Algeria (assistant)
2020–2021	USM El Harrach
2023	JS Kabylie (director of sport)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Born in El Bayadh, Menad started his playing career with CR Belouizdad, before moving to JS Kabylie. In 1987, he signed with French side Nîmes, competing in three Ligue 2 seasons and appearing in nearly 100 official games. In 1989–90, he scored a career-best – in Europe – 12 goals in 27 games, but his team fell short of promotion after finishing in third position.

Menad spent the following three seasons in Portugal, appearing for Famalicão (two seasons) and Belenenses, always in the top division. Subsequently, aged 33, he returned to his country and retired four years later, after stints with former club Kabylie (where he won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1995) and USM Alger.

In 2005, Menad started coaching, managing his last team as a player.^{[citation needed]} On 14 May 2011, he was fired from his post at JSM Bejaia.^[1]

International career

Menad gained the first of his 81 caps for Algeria in 1982. Previously, in 1980, he played Olympic football in Moscow, helping the national team to the quarterfinals.

Menad was selected to the squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup. There, he appeared in group stage losses against Brazil and Spain.^[2] Menad finished third for the 1986 African Footballer of the Year award.

In 1990, he helped the hosts win the Africa Cup of Nations, finishing as the competition's top scorer with four goals.

Doping mystery

In November 2011, Menad, who had a disabled daughter, and his other World Cup Finals teammates called for an investigation into whether their children's disabilities had anything to do with medication ordered to them by Algeria's Soviet coach Evgeni Rogov.^[3]

Managerial career

Menad was appointed manager of USM El Harrach in October 2020.^[4]

Death

Menad died on 22 March 2025, at the age of 64.^[5]

Honours

CR Belouizdad

• Algerian Cup: 1977–78

JS Kabylie

• African Cup of champions clubs: 1981
• African Super Cup: 1982
• African Cup Winners' Cup: 1995
• Algerian League: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1994–95
• Algerian Cup: 1985–86

Algeria

• Africa Cup of Nations: 1990

Individual

• Africa Cup of Nations top scorer: 1990
• Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament:1984, 1990