Mohamed Timoumi


Mohamed Timoumi is former Moroccan footballer. He was named African Footballer of the Year in 1985, and was the last player to win this award while playing club football in an African country. The player took part in 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. At club level, Mohammed Timoumi won the CAF Champions League with FAR Rabat, biggest Moroccan football club of his era. He also competed for Morocco at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.
Mohamed Timoumi plays, very young, in the team of the Union of Touarga of which he is the youngest element. He draws to him the eyes of observers and experts of Moroccan football.
His talent allows him to join one of the biggest Moroccan clubs: FAR Rabat, with whom he won the CAF Champions League in 1985.
In 1985, his talent explodes despite a fracture during the FAR Rabat match against the Egyptian team Zamalek in the semifinals. During this year, Timoumi is, in the unanimous opinion of the international sports press, the star of Africa. He also receives the Ballon d'Or Africain.
A year later, he participated in the final phase of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. He is in Mexico City one of the most important elements of the Moroccan selection and the origin of several of his goals. Morocco ranks first in its group with 0 defeats and a resounding victory against Portugal 3-1. This result allowed him to be the first Arab and African country to reach the second round of the World Cup.
Timoumi's entry into the world of professionalism had a negative effect on his psychology, as according to several observers, Timoumi's professional career was poorly managed, which led to a more or less premature.