Zouhair_El_Moutaraji
Zouhair El Moutaraji
Moroccan professional footballer
Zouhair El Moutaraji (Arabic: زهير مترجي) (born 1 April 1996) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Al-Khaldiya SC as a winger.[1][2]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1996-04-01) 1 April 1996 (age 28) | ||
| Place of birth | Deroua, Morocco | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Khaldiya SC | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2024 | Wydad AC | 99 | (19) |
| 2016–2017 | → Hassania Agadir (loan) | 11 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | → OCK (loan) | 24 | (10) |
| 2024– | Al-Khaldiya SC | 1 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:50, 16 September 2019 (UTC) | |||
El Moutaraji started his career with Wydad AC at the age of 18 as a replacement for the injured Reda Hajhouj. He was linked with a move to Italy's Juventus as a junior, but the move never materialised.[3]
In 2017, El Moutaraji was loaned to Olympique Club de Khouribga, where he scored ten league goals, including one against Wydad.[4][5] He finished tied for fifth in the league goalscoring table.[6]
El Moutaraji returned to Wydad after his loan spell and played several games for them in the 2018–19 CAF Champions League, scoring goals against Horoya and ASEC Mimosas.[7] On 30 May 2022, El Moutaraji scored a brace for Wydad in a 2–0 win over Al Ahly in the 2022 CAF Champions League Final, and won the man of the match award.[8][9][10]
On 30 June 2022, El Moutaraji was nominated for the 2022 CAF inter club player of the year awards.[11][12]
Zouhair El Moutaraji announced his departure from Wydad AC during the 2024 winter Mercato, after the two parties reached a final agreement to end the relationship between them.
Zouhair wrote a post on his official Instagram account “The end of one stage and the beginning of another. 14 years with the components of Wydad Casablanca, during which I graduated through many age categories until I reached the first team, and achieved, thanks to God and then the support of the public, a lot of success, Achievements and coronations".[13]
Wydad AC
- Botola: 2014–15, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
- CAF Champions League: 2021–22
- Moroccan Throne Cup runner-up: 2022–21
Individuale
- CAF Champions League Goal of the Year: 2021–22
- Wydad AC Goal of the Year: 2021–22
- "Zouheir El Moutaraji - Wydad Casablanca". www.footballdatabase.eu.
- Zouhair El Moutaraji at Soccerway. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- Darouiche, Mohamed (23 January 2015). "WAC: Un espoir du Wydad dans le viseur de la Juventus".
- "Botola 18/19: A talented manager not enough for Khouribga". 20 August 2018.
- Gravela, Lorenzo (23 March 2019). Soccer World 2018/19. ISBN 9780244170448.
- "CAF Champions League Review: ES Tunis stay on course to defend title". Omnisport. 13 April 2019.
- "El Moutaraji Strikes Twice as Wydad Become African Champions". albawaba.com. 30 May 2022.
- "Al Ahly 0-2 Wydad Casablanca: Moroccan giants clinch third Caf Champions League title | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- "El Moutaraji wins Champions League for Wydad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- Football, CAF-Confedération Africaine du. "First list of nominees for CAF Awards 2022 revealed". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 28 September 2022.
- "Caf awards 2022 list: Who be di nominees, who go win?". BBC News Pidgin. 2022-07-11. Retrieved 2023-11-02.
- "الوداد يفسخ عقد زهير المترجي والأخير يودع مكونات الفريق: "أغادركم اليوم لأسباب وظروف فوق استطاعتي لكن اسم هذا النادي سيظل في قلبي"". www.elbotola.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-01-16.
- Zouhair El Moutaraji at Soccerway
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