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Wydad Athletic Club (WAC) (Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي) is a Moroccan athletics club based in Casablanca, Morocco, best known for its football team.
[edit] History
The first section of the Wydad Athletic Club was created on May 8, 1937, it was the swimming section. The members of the first management committee of Wydad were Haj Mohamed Benjelloun (President), Maitre Mohamed Zarouk, Mohamed Ben Lahsan, Haj Mohamed Ben Mohamed Ben Lahsan Benjelloun, Ralph Botbol and Charles Benchetrit.
Other sections were created for the club, thus appeared the tennis in 1938 and football in 1939, section which Haj Tounsi alias Père Jégo created.
Several versions circulate according to the origin of the name of the club. In Arabic, Wydad means Love. Each historian brings his explanation. But that brought back by Ahmed Lahrizi in his book on Wydad volume 1, is the most widespread and the most plausible. According to the book, during the frequent meetings which intervened before the creation of the club, one of the founder members arrived late, the reason was that he watched the last film of the actress and Egyptian singer Oum Kaltoum, whose title is "Wydad". Thus came the idea to the founders to give the name to the club.
[edit] Honours
- Moroccan League (16)
- Champion : 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1966, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993, 2006
- Runner-up : 1958, 1959, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002
- Moroccan Cup (9)
- Winner : 1970, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2001
- Runner-up : 1957, 1958, 1961, 1964, 2003, 2004
- North African Championship (3)
- Winner : 1948, 1949, 1950
[edit] Current squad
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 1 |
 |
GK |
Nadir Lamyaghri |
| 3 |
|
DF |
Nabil Moustad |
| 4 |
|
DF |
Zakaria Aoudane |
| 5 |
|
DF |
Issam Adoua |
| 6 |
|
DF |
Mustapha Talha |
| 7 |
|
DF |
Mourad Falah |
| 8 |
|
MF |
Ahmed Talbi |
| 9 |
|
FW |
Hicham Jouiâa |
| 10 |
 |
FW |
Ibrahima Touré |
| 11 |
|
FW |
Abderrahim Saidi |
| 12 |
|
GK |
Mourad Atta |
| 13 |
|
MF |
Younes Zerrouk |
| 14 |
 |
MF |
Kalilou Traoré |
| 15 |
|
DF |
Hicham Louissi |
|
|
| No. |
|
Position |
Player |
| 16 |
|
MF |
Boubakar Koulibaly |
| 17 |
|
MF |
Yassine Zouchou |
| 18 |
|
MF |
Karim Miftal |
| 21 |
|
MF |
Rafik Abdessamad |
| 22 |
|
GK |
Hakim Mouzaki |
| 23 |
|
FW |
Brahim Baba |
| 24 |
|
MF |
Younes Manqari |
| 25 |
|
DF |
Abdelilah Mansour |
| 26 |
|
FW |
Abdelghani Faouzi |
| 29 |
|
FW |
Mohammed Borji |
| 30 |
|
DF |
Khalid Sekkat |
| 31 |
|
DF |
Hamza Hajji |
| 32 |
|
DF |
Khalid Oumansour |
|
|
MF |
Reda Doulyazal |
|
[edit] Technical Staff
José Romão- Porfirio Amorim (Entraineur Adjoint)
Younes Koutaya (Entraineur des Gardiens)- Dr. Abderezak HIFTI (Medecin)
[edit] Former notable players
[edit] External links
