Khaled Kharroubi
Personal information
Full name Khaled Farid Kharroubi
Date of birth (1984-02-11) February 11, 1984
Place of birth Lyon, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Central Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Adana Demirspor
Number 20
Youth career
1992–1997 Olympique Lyon
1997–2001 Grenoble Foot
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Bangu 7 (0)
2003–2004 → Vitória (loan) 29 (0)
2004–2008 Valenciennes 64 (1)
2008–2009 FCV Dender 8 (0)
2010 Etoile FC 16 (1)
2011 Osotspa Saraburi FC 29 (0)
2012 BEC Tero Sasana 28 (1)
2014 MC Oran 1 (0)
2016–2017 Adana Demirspor 1 (0)
2018– Venissieux 0 (0)
International career‡
2006 Algeria 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 January 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 October 2010

Khaled Farid Kharroubi (Arabic: خالد خروبي) (born February 11, 1984 in Lyon, France) is an Algerian footballer. He currently plays for Adana Demirspor.

Biography

Kharroubi started playing football at the age of 6 in his neighborhood club US Vénissieux. At the age of 8, he joined the Olympique Lyon academy, and stayed with the club until the age of 15. He would then join the academy at Grenoble Foot for another 4 years, reaching the semi-finals of the Coupe Gambardella, before leaving to Brazil at age 19 to sign with Bangu. After one season, he was loaned out to Série A side Esporte Clube Vitória and at the end of the season he would come back to France to join Valenciennes FC in the French Championnat National. In his first season, he played 33 games and helped the team finish first in the tables gaining promotion to Ligue 2. In his second season, injuries limited him to just 10 games (and 1 goal) but his team still finished first in the standings, gaining promotion to Ligue 1. In his first season in the top flight, Kharroubi again managed just 10 games. Injuries again limited him to just 3 games in his second season in Ligue 1.

On June 4, 2008, he signed a 2-year contract with newly promoted Belgian club FCV Dender.[1] After left Dender he was signed in 2010 by Etoile FC for their debut appearance in the S.League where he was part of the double-winning squad that took the S.League and League Cup titles. Kharroubi now plays for Osotspa Saraburi FC in Thailand.

On August 18, 2016, he signed one year deal with Turkish side Adana Demirspor. On September 21, 2016, he played his first official match for Demirspor against Erzurum BB in a Turkish Cup meeting.[2]

International career

Although born in France, Kharroubi has represented Algeria in international competition. In June, 2005, he was called up to a training camp by the Under-23 national team.[3] In August, 2006, he was called up by Jean-Michel Cavalli to the Algerian National Team for friendlies against FC Istres and Gabon. He started the game against FC Istres but did not feature in the second game.[4]

Honours

Personal

Kharroubi's family hails from the city of Chlef in Algeria and the player has admitted that he is a big fan of local club ASO Chlef.

References

  1. ↑ Transferts : Kharroubi au FCV Dender - Football algérien Archived 2008-06-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Adana Demirspor". Mackolik.com. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  3. ↑ Jeunes : regroupement des "pros" - Football algérien Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Football algérien Archived 2012-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
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