Rachid Belabed

Rachid Belabed
Personal information
Full name	Rachid Belabed
Date of birth	20 October 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth	Brussels, Belgium
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Sporting Club Steinfort
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–1998	Anderlecht
1998–1999	Molenbeek
1999–2002	Aberdeen
2002–2004	La Louviere
2005–2006	Eupen
2006–2007	FC Wiltz 71
2007–2009	Racing FC Union Luxembourg
2009–2010	RM Hamm Benfica
2010–	Sporting Club Steinfort
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rachid Belabed (born 20 October 1980 in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Moroccan footballer, who plays for Luxembourg 1. Division club SC Steinfort.

Football career

Belabed signed for Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen in 1999 for a fee of £100,000. He made 40 appearances in the Scottish Premier League, scoring once against Dundee United,^[1] before leaving the club when his contract expired in 2002.^[2] He then signed for Belgian side La Louviere, who sacked him in 2004. While at La Louvière he helped them win the 2002–03 Belgian Cup.^[3]

Belabed was born in Belgium to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother.

In 2004, Belabed assaulted Claude Moniquet, a journalist.^[4] Belabed had accused Moniquet of being racist and an enemy of Islam.^[4]

^ "Moroccans inspire Dons win". BBC. 27 December 1999. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^ Belabed moves to Belgium, BBC Sport, 23 June 2002.
^ "La Louvière wint Beker van België". vi.nl. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b Belgian club sacks Moroccan, BBC Sport, 13 September 2004.