Amar Rouaï (March 9, 1932 – November 11, 2017) was a former

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n international football player and

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. From 1958 to 1962, he was a member of the

FLN football team The FLN football team (in ar, فريق جبهة التحرير الوطني لكرة القدم, in french: Équipe du FLN de football), also known as ''Le onze de l'indépendance'' ( en, The eleven of the Independence) was a team made ...

Club career

Rouaï began his career with

MC El Eulma Mouloudia Chabab El Eulma ( ar, مولودية شباب العلمة), known as MC El Eulma or simply MCEE for short, is an Algerian football club based in El Eulma. The club was founded in 1936 and its colors are green and red. Their home stadi ...

, making his debut with the senior team while aged 15. After five years with MC El Eulma, he moved to France to embark on a professional career. After two seasons with US Annemasse, he signed his first professional contract with

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. In 1957, he joined

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side

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, making 27 appearances and scoring 7 goals. However, at the end of the season, he secretly left the team to join the

. In 1962, after

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gained its independence, Rouaï returned to Angers. He made 15 more appearances for the club, scoring 1 goal, before buying out his contract.

International career

In 1958, Rouaï secretly left

to go to

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and join the

in support of the Algerian independence movement. He spent the next four years traveling and playing with the team. After Algeria gained its independence, he was called up twice to the

Algeria national football team The Algeria national football team ( ar, منتخب الجزائر لكرة القدم) represents Algeria in men's international football and is governed by the Algerian Football Federation. The team plays their home matches at the 5 July S ...

. The first, in 1962, was a friendly against French club Nîmes. In the second, on July 4, 1963, he made his official debut in a friendly against

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Death

Rouai died in Annemasse at the French-Swiss border on November 11, 2017, at the age of 85.Décès de l’ancienne gloire de l’équipe du FLN Amar Rouai

References

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