Bouazza playing for Watford
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hameur Bouazza | ||
Date of birth | 22 February 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Évry, France | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Winger | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Étoile du Sahel | ||
Youth career | |||
2000–2001 | Auxerre | ||
2001–2002 | Évry | ||
2002–2003 | Watford | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003–2007 | Watford | 83 | (8) |
2005–2006 | → Swindon Town (loan) | 13 | (2) |
2007–2009 | Fulham | 20 | (1) |
2008–2009 | → Charlton Athletic (loan) | 25 | (4) |
2009 | → Birmingham City (loan) | 16 | (1) |
2009 | Sivasspor | 0 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Blackpool | 19 | (1) |
2010–2011 | Arles-Avignon | 9 | (1) |
2011 | → Millwall (loan) | 12 | (1) |
2011–2012 | Millwall | 26 | (2) |
2012 | AC Omonia | 0 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Racing Santander | 17 | (0) |
2013–2014 | ES Sétif | 4 | (0) |
2014–2017 | Red Star | 80 | (20) |
2017– | Étoile du Sahel | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2007–2013 | Algeria | 21 | (3) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:30, 22 January 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 06:00, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hameur Bouazza (Arabic: عامر بوعزة; born 22 February 1985) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 side Étoile du Sahel. He usually plays as a left winger, but can also play on the right.
Bouazza has spent most of his football career in England, having also played in Turkey, France, Cyprus, Spain, Algeria and Tunisia.
An Algerian international between 2007 and 2013, Bouazza played for his country in two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations: 2010 in Angola and 2013 in South Africa. As of May 2015, he has 21 caps and 3 goals.
Bouazza was born in Évry, France. where he lived with his parents, two brothers and two sisters. In October 2005, speaking about his early life, Bouazza said: "Sometimes I didn’t go to school because all that I wanted was to play football. It was football, football. I started playing at nine and when I was 15 I got a chance with Auxerre. It did not go well and after a year I returned to Évry."
In 2003, at the age of 16, Bouazza moved to England having won a scholarship at Watford following a trial.
He made his first team debut as an 88th-minute substitute on 7 February 2004 in a 2–2 with Sunderland at Vicarage Road. A week later, he scored on his full debut, a 2–0 home win over Preston North End. He made a total of nine appearances in the 2003–04 season. The following season, he made 28 league and eight cup appearances, scoring three goals. During the 2005–06 season, Bouazza was overshadowed by Darius Henderson, Marlon King, and Ashley Young and missed a lengthy spell with a broken metatarsal but still tallied three goals in nineteen games, one of which was the fourth in Watford's 4–1 win over Championship runners-Up Sheffield United.