Hocine Achiou
Achiou wearing the uniform of the Algerian soccer team
Personal information
Full name Hocine Achiou
Date of birth (1979-04-27) April 27, 1979
Place of birth Algiers, Algeria
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1990–1996 ES Ben Aknoun
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2006 USM Alger 95 (17)
2006–2007 FC Aarau 28 (4)
2007–2008 USM Alger 23 (3)
2009 JS Kabylie 18 (3)
2009–2011 USM Alger 46 (1)
2011–2012 ASO Chlef 23 (0)
2012–2013 MC Oran 10 (2)
2013–2015 USM Bel-Abbès 23 (4)
2016–2017 RC Arbaâ 11 (0)
2017–2017 WA Boufarik 5 (1)
International career‡
2003–2009 Algeria 26 (3)
Managerial career
2017– Algeria U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, May 17, 2012 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:00, April 28, 2012 (UTC)

Hocine Achiou (Arabic: حسين عشيو; born April 27, 1979) is a former Algerian footballer.

Achiou was a member of the Algeria national team at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations where he scored a wonderful individual goal against rivals Egypt.[1]

Football career

Achiou started his playing career with ES Ben Aknoun before joining the junior ranks of USM Alger. He would eventually sign his first professional contract with the club. Achiou was an important member of the team's African Champions League run in 2003 and 2004. USM Alger made the final eight (group stage) in both those years and even made it to the semi-final in 2003 when they lost 3–2 on aggregate to eventual champions Enyimba FC.

He had numerous opportunities to join European clubs but the player could not agree on financial terms with the clubs. He had trials with Premiership-sides Fulham FC and Portsmouth FC and French clubs CS Sedan and FC Lorient.[2] Hocine finally signed a one-year deal with Swiss club FC Aarau in the summer of 2006.[3] He scored a goal in his first league game against FC St. Gallen. In the summer of 2007, he left FC Aarau after just one season and immediately joined his former team USM Alger. In January 2009, he joined JS Kabylie. َAfter six successful months, he returned to his former team USM Alger. In the summer of 2011, he left USM Alger definitively to join ASO Chlef. In January 2013, he joined MC Oran. In the summer of 2013, he joined USM Bel-Abbès and he led him to return to the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. In January 2016, he joined RC Arbaâ. In January 2017, he joined WA Boufarik.

International career

Achiou was part of the Algerian team that finished second in their group in the first round of the 2004 African Nations Cup behind Cameroon before being defeated by Morocco in the quarter-finals. Achiou had scored an important goal against Egypt in one of the group stage matches that was instrumental in helping Algeria reach the quarterfinals. Achiou also scored a goal against Zimbabwe which would be the difference in the tie-breaker against Egypt, and ultimately qualify Algeria to the quarter-finals. Achiou has 25 caps for the Algerian national team and has scored 3 goals.

Career statistics

Club

Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
USM Alger 1999–2000 Division 1 50—1[lower-alpha 1]0—60
2000–01 17154——222
2001–02 252204[lower-alpha 1]1—313
2002–03 273507[lower-alpha 2]1—394
2003–04 2674111[lower-alpha 3]0—418
2004–05 1821012[lower-alpha 4]2—314
2005–06 245412[lower-alpha 3]1—307
Total 142202163750020031
FC Aarau 2006–07 SSL 28411—20315
USM Alger 2007–08 Division 1 23520—8[lower-alpha 5]0335
JS Kabylie 2008–09 183102[lower-alpha 3]0—213
USM Alger 2009–10 18011——191
2010–11 Ligue 1 28110——291
Total 36121——382
ASO Chlef 2011–12 Ligue 1 230103[lower-alpha 3]0—270
MC Oran 2012–13 10220——122
USM Bel Abbès 2013–14 Ligue 2 291220——3112
2014–15 Ligue 1 244———244
Total 531620——5516
RC Arbaâ 2015–16 Ligue 1 11010——120
2016–17 Ligue 2 62———62
Total 17210——182
WA Boufarik 2016–17 Ligue 2 31———31
Career total 3455433842510043067
  1. 1 2 All appearance(s) in African Cup Winners' Cup
  2. ↑ four appearances in CAF Champions League, three appearances and one goal in African Cup Winners' Cup
  3. 1 2 3 4 All appearance(s) in Champions League
  4. ↑ ten appearances and one goal in CAF Champions League, two appearances and one goal in CAF Confederation Cup
  5. ↑ All appearance(s) in Arab Champions League

National team statistics

Algeria national team
YearAppsGoals
200351
2004132
200550
200620
200700
200800
200910
Total263

Honours

As a player

USM Alger

References

  1. ↑ Obayiuwana, Osasu (January 29, 2004). "Algeria shock Egypt". BBC. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.dzfoot.com/news.php?hot_id=1808M. Retrieved 2008-12-16. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Aarau : débuts européens pour Achiou". news.maxifoot.com. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
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