Kader Firoud

Kader Firoud

Personal information
Full name	Abdelkader Firoud
Date of birth	October 11, 1919
Place of birth	Oran, French Algeria
Date of death
Place of death	Nîmes, France
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	USM Oran
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1935–1936	USM Oran
1936–1939	MC Alger
1939–1941	USM Oran
1944–1945	Toulouse FC
1945–1948	AS Saint-Étienne	227	(35)
1948–1954	Nîmes Olympique	72	(10)
International career
1951–1952	France	6	(0)
Managerial career
1955–1964	Nîmes
1961	Morocco
1963	Algeria
1964–1967	Toulouse
1969–1978	Nîmes
1980–1982	Montpellier
1984	FC Valence
1985–1986	FC Valence
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Abdelkader Firoud (October 11, 1919 in Oran, Algeria – April 3, 2005 in Nîmes, France), most commonly known as Kader Firoud, was a French-Algerian professional football midfielder and manager.

Honours

Personnel

• Best manager France Football in 1971
• Second most capped as manager after Guy Roux with 783 matches

Player

• Ligue 1 runner-up in 1945/46 with AS Saint-Etienne
• Ligue 2 champion in 1949/50 with Nîmes Olympique

Manager

• Ligue 1 runner-up in 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1971/72 with Nîmes Olympique
• Ligue 2 runner-up in 1980/81 with Montpellier HSC
• Coupe de France finalist in 1957/58, 1960/61 with Nîmes Olympique
• Coupe Charles Drago winner in 1955/56 with Nîmes Olympique

External links

• Profile on French federation official site