Cherif El Ouazani

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Personal information
Tahar Cherif El Ouazzani
Full name	Tahar Cherif El Ouazzani
Date of birth	July 10, 1967 (1967-07-10) (age 40)
Place of birth	Oran, Algeria
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth clubs
	MC Oran
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1990 1990-1992 1992-1993 1993-1995 1995-2002	MC Oran Aydinspor MC Oran Raja Casablanca MC Oran
National team
1989-1995	Algeria
Teams managed
2003-2008 2008-	OM Arzew MC Oran
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Tahar Cherif El Ouazzani (Arabic: طاهر شريف الوازاني‎) (born July 10, 1967) is a former Algerian football midfielder and current head coach of MC Oran. He is the older brother of MC Oran midfielder Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani.[1]

1 Career
2 Club career
3 Honours
4 External links

[edit] Career

Cherif El Ouazanni started his career with hometown MC Oran in 1987. In his first season, he would lead the club to its first league title in 17 years. The following season he would lead the team to the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs where they lost a controversial match-up on penalties to Raja Casablanca. He would play one more season for MCO during which he won the 1990 African Cup of Nations before siging his first professional contract with Turkish club Aydinspor, joining fellow Algerian Djamel Amani at the club. He played two season in Turkey before returning again to Algeria. The following year he would lead MC Oran to the league title for a second time before leaving again, this time to Moroccan side Raja Casablanca. After two trophy-less years in Morocco, he returned back for a third stint with MCO. He would lead the team to the Algerian Cup in 1996 as well as back-to-back Arab Cup Winners Cups in 1997 and 1998. The following year they also won the Arab Super Cup defeating Syrian side Al Jaish in the final. He played with MCO until his retirement in 2002.