| Intro | Moroccan footballer | |||||||||
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Athlete Football player Association football player |
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| From | Morocco | |||||||||
| Type | Sports | |||||||||
| Gender | male | |||||||||
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20 October 1980, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
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| Age | 40 years | |||||||||
| Star sign | Libra | |||||||||
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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, before leaving the club when his contract expired in 2002. He then signed for Belgian side La Louviere, who sacked him in 2004.
Personal life
Belabed was born in Belgium to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother.
In 2004, Belabed assaulted Claude Moniquet, a journalist. Belabed had accused Moniquet of being racist and an enemy of Islam.