Abdelaziz Ben Tifour’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro French footballer
A.K.A. Abdelhaziz Ben Tifour
Was Sports official 
Athlete 
Football player 
Association football player 
Association football manager 
From Algeria 
France 
Type Sports 
Gender male
Birth 25 July 1927, Hussein Dey
Death 19 November 1970, Algiers, Algiers Province, Algeria
(aged 43 years)

Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (Arabic: عبدالعزيز بن طيفور‎‎; (1927-07-25)25 July 1927 – 19 November 1970(1970-11-19)) was a professional French-Algerian footballer who played as a midfielder.

Life and career

He was a pioneer of Algerian football playing in Tunisia and France in the 40s and 50s as well as establishing the first Algerian national team with two other FLN activists featuring ten players in France’s provisional World Cup squad on the eve of the finals in Sweden. One of those players was Ben Tifour himself, who had played for the French national team on four occasions including one appearance at the 1954 World Cup.

Born in Hussein-Dey. In the summer of 1948, he moved to Europe to play for French first division club OGC Nice, making his debut in a 1–1 draw with Red Star Paris and by the time Ben Tifour played at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland in a 3–2 win over Mexico; he had already won two league titles and a French Cup with OGC Nice. He moved to Troyes AC after six seasons with Nice in 1954 and then signed for AS Monaco in 1956, which would be his last club in Europe. In total, he made 280 appearances in the French top division, scoring 62 goals. He returned to Tunis in 1958 to form the FLN Algerian national team.

When Algeria was granted independence in 1962, the 33-year-old Ben Tifour unlike Mekloufi and Ahmed Oudjani who moved back to play in Europe, returned to his homeland to take up a player-coach role at Union Sportive Musulmane d’Alger leading them to the first Algerian championship in 1963.

Ben Tifour died at the age of only 43 while he was coach at Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie during the 1970–1971 season.

Clubs

  • Espérance Sportive de Tunis (1945–1946)
  • Club Sportif de Hammam Lif (1946–1948)
  • OGC Nice (1948–1954)
  • Association Sportive Troyenne Savinienne (1954–1956)
  • AS Monaco (1956–1958)
  • FLN Equipe (1958–1962)
  • USMA, Union Sportive de la Medina d’Alger (1962–1963)
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