Marouan Kechrid (born 2 June 1981) is a Tunisian-French former basketball player and current coach. After starting his career with
JS Kairouan, Kechrid played the majority of his career in Tunisia and won five
CNA championships over an eighteen-year span. He also played for
Ittihad Tanger
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The club was founded in 1936 as Unión Deportiva ...
and
Maghreb de Fes in the Moroccan
Division Excellence.
Kechrid was a member of the
Tunisia national basketball team that finished third at the
2009 FIBA Africa Championship to qualify for the country's first
FIBA World Championship
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. Kechrid averaged 9.8 PPG and 1.9 RPG for the Tunisians during the tournament. He also competed for the Tunisians in the
2005
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and
2007 FIBA Africa Championship. He was a member of the Tunisian team that took part in the
2012 Summer Olympics
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.
Kechrid started his coaching career in 2021 as an assistant with
US Monastir, and was promoted to head coach after a year. In October 2022, Kechrid and Monastir agreed to terminate their contract.
References
1981 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
French men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Tunisia
Sportspeople from Dreux
Point guards
Shooting guards
Tunisian expatriate basketball people in Morocco
Tunisian men's basketball players
2010 FIBA World Championship players
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Tunisia
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
US Monastir basketball coaches
Club Africain basketball players
US Monastir basketball players
ES Radès basketball players
21st-century French sportsmen
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