Houssine Kharja

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Personal information
Houssine Kharja
Full name	حسين خرجة
Date of birth	November 9, 1982 (age 24)
Place of birth	Poissy, France
Playing position	Right/centre winger
Club information
Current club	Piacenza Calcio
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2001 2001- 2005-2006	Sporting Lisbon Ternana → AS Roma on loan Piacenza	0 (0) 119 (9) 12 (1) 0 (0)
National team²
2004-	Morocco	7 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of March 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 2005. * Appearances (Goals)

Houssine Kharja (in Arabic: حسين خرجة , born 9 November 1982 in Poissy) is a France born Moroccan football player. He is 181 cm tall and weighs 77 Kg.

Kharja started his career for Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon, and he joined Ternana in 2001. He played four impressive Serie B seasons for the rossoverdi, gaining a place in the Morocco national football team, and being loaned to AS Roma in 2005. In Rome Kharja played 12 matches and scored one goal during a 1-1 draw against Juventus. At the end of the season 2005/2006, AS Roma decided to not extend Kharja's loan, so the Maroccan player had to go back to Ternana, but he refused this transfer because meanwhile the rossoverdi had been relegated to Serie C1, and the possibility to play in such a scarce league is excluded by Kharja and also (as he supposes) by his contract. Though Ternana considered him as his own player^[1]^[2], FIFA's court decided that Kharja was a free player, and so, on 20 March 2007 he signed a three years contract with Serie B team Piacenza Calcio.^[3]