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Full name
  
Hocine Achiou

1990–1996
  
ES Ben Aknoun

Position
  
Midfielder

Number
  
8

Height
  
1.72 m


Playing position
  
Midfielder

Role
  
Footballer

Place of birth
  
Algiers, Algeria

Name
  
Hocine Achiou

Current team
  
USM Bel-Abbes

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Date of birth
  
(1979-04-27) April 27, 1979 (age 36)

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Hocine Achiou (born April 27, 1979) is an Algerian footballer. He is currently playing for WA Boufarik in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2.

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Football career

Achiou started his playing career with ES Ben Aknoun before joining the junior ranks of USM Alger. He would eventually sign his first professional contract with the club. Achiou was an important member of the team's African Champions League run in 2003 and 2004. USM Alger made the final eight (group stage) in both those years and even made it to the semi-final in 2003 when they lost 3-2 on aggregate to eventual champions Enyimba FC.

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He had numerous opportunities to join European clubs but the player could not agree on financial terms with the clubs. He had trials with Premiership-sides Fulham FC and Portsmouth FC and French clubs CS Sedan and FC Lorient. Hocine finally signed a one-year deal with Swiss club FC Aarau in the summer of 2006. He scored a goal in his first league game against FC St. Gallen. In the summer of 2007, he left FC Aarau after just one season and immediately joined his former team USM Alger. In January 2009, he joined JS Kabylie. َAfter six successful months, he returned to his former team USM Alger. In the summer of 2011, he left USM Alger definitively to join ASO Chlef. In January 2013, he joined MC Oran. In the summer of 20013, he joined USM Bel-Abbès and he led him to return to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. In January 2016, he joined RC Arbaâ. In January 2017, he joined WA Boufarik.

International career

Achiou was part of the Algerian team that finished second in their group in the first round of the 2004 African Nations Cup behind Cameroon before being defeated by Morocco in the quarter-finals. Achiou had scored an important goal against Egypt in one of the group stage matches that was instrumental in helping Algeria reach the quarterfinals. Achiou also scored a goal against Zimbabwe which would be the difference in the tie-breaker against Egypt, and ultimately qualify Algeria to the quarter-finals. Achiou has 25 caps for the Algerian national team and has scored 3 goals.

Honours

  • Won the Algerian league three times with USM Alger in 2002, 2003 and 2005
  • Won the Algerian Cup three times with USM Alger in USM Alger in 2001, 2003 and 2004
  • Reached the semi-finals of the CAF Champions League with USM Alger in 2003
  • References

    Hocine Achiou Wikipedia


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