Meziane Ighil
Meziane Ighil was born on the 12 th January 1952. He is an Algerian football coach and a former football player. He is the current manage...
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Meziane Ighil was born on the 12th January 1952. He is an Algerian
football coach and a former football player. He is the current manager of USM
Alger in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
source of picture: www.radioalgerie.dz
Club Career
Ighil spent his entire football playing career with the club NA Hussein
Dey. He was a member of the club’s team that won the 1979 Algerian Cup and got
to the finals of the 1978 African Cup Winner’s Cup.
International Career
On the 3rd
June 1973, Ighil played his first international match for the Algerian national
team as a starter in the friendly match that was played against Brazil. He was
in the game for the full 90 minutes as Brazil won the match 2-0.
He was chosen as a
member of the Algerian national team that played in the 1982 African Cup of
Nations in Libya. He played just a game, which was in the third place match
against Zambia as his side finished 4th.
Managerial Career
On the 3rd
July 2010, Ighil was selected to be the coach of the ASO Chlef as he signed a
year deal with the club. In the first season he spent with the club, he led
them to the league title for the first time in the history of the club.
Honours
Player
Ø Won
the Algerian Cup once with the club, NA Hussein Dey in the year 1979
Ø Finalist
of the African Cup Winners' Cup once with the club, NA Hussein Dey in the year
1978
Manager
Ø Won
the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 once with the club, ASO Chlef in the
2010/11 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
He was sent to prison on the 21st May
2007 for three year for the role he played in the Khalifa embezzlement case and
he was released in 1st January 2010.