Moestafa El Kabir’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Moestafa El Kabir (Arabic: مصطفى الكبير‎; born 5 October 1988) is a Moroccan professional footballer who most recently played as a forward for Turkish club Çaykur Rizespor. El Kabir holds a Dutch passport.

Career

Early life

El Kabir was born on 5 October 1988 in Targuist, Morocco, in the province of Al Hoceima. At this time his parents were on vacation in Morocco, but 20 days after birth the family returned to Amsterdam,. Moestafa has five brothers and one sister.

Youth career

El Kabir began his career with Blauw-Wit Amsterdam. In 2005, he joined Jong Ajax, a team he left after one year. He was offered a contract by Feyenoord, but the trauma of the abdominal muscles will not allow him to join the club. He signed with Jong Feyenoord for one year, then with FC Utrecht, where he was included in the reserves’ team. He left FC Utrecht in the summer of 2008 to sign with Eredivisie side NEC on 3 June 2008. He made his Eredivisie debut in November 2008, against NAC Breda.

NEC

El Kabir played for NEC’s first team in preparation for the 2008–09 season during two exhibition games in both of which he scored: against Vv Capelle and against RCD Espanyol. In late 2009, after playing regularly at NEC, his contract was extended until 2012. Nevertheless, he was in both 2008 and 2009 because of his disciplined obesity. He was also repeatedly put back to Jong NEC. In November 2009 he was finally put back to Jong NEC in January 2010 he was given a free transfer status.

On 8 February 2010, El Kabir was told he would not be playing any more matches for NEC, as result of disciplinary action. He was allowed to leave NEC for free, even though he has been contracted until 2012. Erton Fejzullahu then informed Mjällby AIF about El Kabir being available and a contract was signed.

Mjällby AIF

When he signed for Mjällby AIF until 2015 where it was their first season in Allsvenskan since 1983. Media and many other experts had the team as a relegation candidate. But when the first half of the season 2010 was played, Mjällby were in the fourth position. (out of 16 teams) El Kabir scored his first goal for the club away against Örebro SK in the third round. He did not score again until the seventh round away against BK Häcken.

In the last game in Allsvenskan (round 14) before the World cup break on 15 May 2010, Mjällby AIF were playing home against Malmö FF. In front of friends and his brother, El Kabir scored the two first goals in the game which ended up in a 4–2 victory to Mjällby. On 4 July, Mjällby AIF again played against Malmö FF, but in the fourth round of the Svenska Cupen. The result was 4–1 to Mjällby and El Kabir scored all four goals. During his time at Sweden, El Kabir lives in Sölvesborg and Fridhem in Högadal.

Cagliari

On 5 April 2011, Cagliari President Massimo Cellino announced that a deal had been made for the transfer of El Kabir to Cagliari for the 2011–12 Serie A season and had an option to sign him permanently for three years. He scored on his debut on 11 September 2011 in an away match against Roma. At the end of the 2011/12 season, during which El Kabir struggled with injuries, Cagliari announced it would not exercise the option to sign El Kabir permanently so he returned to Mjällby.

BK Häcken

In November 2012, BK Häcken announced the signing of El Kabir.

Al Ahli

In July 2014, El Kabir joined Al Ahli SC on a one and a half year contract. He made his debut against Najran SC in the 2014–15 Saudi Professional League, in which Al Ahli SC had drawn 1–1. On 13 September 2014, Moestafa El Kabir scored his first goal for Al Ahli SC against Al-Khaleej.

Personal life

Moestafa is the older brother of Ural Yekaterinburg player Othman El Kabir.

Career statistics

As of 10 July 2019