Moussa Maâzou
Maâzou training with Bordeaux in 2010 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ouwo Moussa Maâzou | ||
Date of birth | 25 August 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Niamey, Niger | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | FC The Belval Belvaux | ||
Youth career | |||
1998–2005 | ASFAN | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2008 | ASFAN | 79 | (48) |
2008–2009 | Lokeren | 25 | (14) |
2009–2012 | CSKA Moscow | 15 | (3) |
2009 | → Lokeren (loan) | 6 | (3) |
2010 | → Monaco (loan) | 18 | (5) |
2010–2011 | → Bordeaux (loan) | 15 | (1) |
2011 | → Monaco (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2011–2012 | → Zulte Waregem (loan) | 4 | (0) |
2012 | → Le Mans (loan) | 15 | (2) |
2012–2013 | Étoile du Sahel | 12 | (3) |
2013–2014 | Vitória Guimarães | 25 | (4) |
2014–2015 | Marítimo | 18 | (9) |
2015 | Changchun Yatai | 26 | (6) |
2016 | Randers | 10 | (1) |
2016–2017 | Ajaccio | 40 | (8) |
2017–2018 | Lens | 11 | (1) |
2018 | → Ajaccio (loan) | 15 | (1) |
2019 | Ohod | 4 | (1) |
2019–2020 | Sektzia Ness Ziona | 25 | (4) |
2021–2022 | Jeunesse Esch | 45 | (18) |
2022 | Differdange 03 | 0 | (0) |
2022–2023 | FC Bassin Piennois | ||
2023– | FC The Belval Belvaux | ||
International career‡ | |||
2008–2021 | Niger | 54 | (13) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 July 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2021 |
Ouwo Moussa Maâzou (born 25 August 1988) commonly known as Moussa Maâzou, is a Nigerien professional footballer who plays as a striker for Luxembourgish club FC The Belval Belvaux.
Club career
[edit]Maazou began his senior career as a player with Niger's Army club, ASFAN of Niamey.[1] In 2005–2006 Maazou scored 17 goals.[2] In the 2006–2007 season with ASFAN,[3] he scored 20 goals in 34 matches.[4] In January 2008, Belgian side Sporting Lokeren signed him. He scored six goals in his first nine matches. On 3 January 2009, Maâzou signed a contract with CSKA Moscow. The club paid Sporting Lokeren €4.8 million for Maâzou. He was immediately loaned back to Lokeren until 1 July 2009.[5] After CSKA qualified for the round of 16 of the UEFA Cup 2008–09, he was called back from the loan and on 12 March 2009 was registered as a CSKA player.[6] In January 2010 Maâzou left Russia, signing a six-month loan deal, with an option for a permanent move when his loan spell ends, with AS Monaco.[7] The following season Maâzou joined FC Girondins de Bordeaux on a one-year loan, again with an option to purchase.[8] At the end of January 2011 Maâzou returned to AS Monaco on another six-month,[9] but after only one game injured his knee in training and would require surgery.[10]
In February 2012, Maâzou signed for Le Mans on a six-month loan deal,[11] before moving to Tunisian side Étoile du Sahel on a three-year contract during the summer of 2012.[12] After terminating his contract with Tunisian side Étoile du Sahel, Maâzou signed for Vitória Guimarães in Portugal in July 2013.[13]
He switched to another Portuguese club, Marítimo in August 2014.[14] On 28 January 2015, at that point the Portuguese top flight's second top goalscorer of the season with nine goals, Maâzou transferred to Chinese Super League side Changchun Yatai.[15]
In February 2016, Maâzou moved to Danish side Randers.[16]
In July 2016, AC Ajaccio announced the signing of Maâzou on a one-year deal, with an option of a further year.[17]
A year later, on 31 August 2017, Maâzou signed for RC Lens on a three-year contract.[18] In December 2018, he agreed a mutual termination of his contract with RC Lens.[19]
On 23 September 2019 signed the Israeli Premier League club Sektzia Ness Ziona.[20]
International career
[edit]In April 2015, Maâzou announced his retirement from the Niger national football team at the age of 26, after having earned 30 caps and scored seven international goals. He credited the dismissal of manager Gernot Rohr in the previous October as a reason for his decision.[21]
However, in October he returned to the national team, scoring two goals against Somalia national football team in the campaign for 2018 World Cup.
International goals
[edit]- Scores and results list Niger's goal tally first.[22]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 10 October 2010 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2. | 17 November 2010 | June 11 Stadium, Tripoli, Libya | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
3. | 10 August 2011 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
2–1 | 3–3 | Friendly |
4. | 3–2 | |||||
5. | 4 September 2011 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–1 | 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
6. | 9 October 2012 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
4–3 | 4–3 | Friendly |
7. | 1 January 2013 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
8. | 6 September 2014 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
1–3 | 1–3 | 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
9. | 9 October 2015 | Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
10. | 2–0 | |||||
11. | 13 October 2015 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
2–0 | 4–0 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
12. | 3–0 | |||||
13. | 4 September 2016 | Stade Général-Seyni-Kountché, Niamey, Niger | ![]() |
? | 3–1 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
References
[edit]- ^ L'homme du mois: « Maazou pense au Standard mais rêve d’Arsenal » Archived 19 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine.footgoal.net 17 December 2008
- ^ TRANSFERT DE MÂAZOU OUWO
AU CSKA DE MOSCOU La réaction du Colonel Djibrilla Hima Hamidou dit Pélé. Republicain (Niger) 14 janvier 2009 - ^ Note: Niger league runs from late December to July or August
- ^ Maazou taking Belgium by storm (FIFA.com) Thursday 18 December 2008
- ^ "Maazou : " Je veux jouer au CSKA à partir du 1 février " | FOOTGOAL : Le webzine n°1 de l'actualité du Football Belge et International". Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ Maazou became an Army player Archived 15 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Monaco signs striker Moussa Maazou in loan deal". Fox Sports. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Transfert – Maazou signe aux Girondins". FC Girondins de Bordeaux. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Moussa Maazou proche d'un retour à Monaco" (in French). planete-asm. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "MONACO SIGNING MAAZOU CROCKED". Ligue 1. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Niger's Maazou to rescue Le Mans". english.ahram.org. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Foot - Le Nigérien Ouwo Moussa Maazou étoilé pour 3 ans (Photos & vidéo)". Étoile du Sahel. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Moussa Maazou : Le Nigérien retrouve le sourire au Portugal". africatopsports. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Moussa Maazou chegou para o ataque". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ Vasconcelos, Gonçalo (28 January 2015). "Maazou transferido para a China" [Maâzou transferred to China]. Record (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Officielt: Moussa Maazou til Randers FC". bold.dk (in Danish). 17 February 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Un renfort d'expérience en attaque (in French)". www.ac-ajaccio.corsica. 29 July 2016. Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
- ^ "Officiel : Fin du mercato avec C. Bayala et M. Maazou". rclens.fr (in French). RC Lens. 31 August 2017. Archived from the original on 5 December 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ "RC Lens : Moussa Maazou quitte le club - Foot - L2 - Lens".
- ^ Krako, Amit (23 September 2019). "יש חלוץ: סקציה נס ציונה החתימה את מוסא מאזו". One.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 23 September 2019.
- ^ Vilas, Nicolas (3 April 2014). "Maazou dit stop à la sélection du Niger" [Maâzou says "no more" to the Niger national team] (in French). Eurosport. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
- ^ "Maâzou, Moussa Karim". National Football Teams. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
External links
[edit]- Moussa Maâzou at Soccerway
- Moussa Maâzou at National-Football-Teams.com
- Moussa Maâzou – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Footgoal Profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-02-17)
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Niamey
- Nigerien men's footballers
- Niger men's international footballers
- Nigerien expatriate men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- AS FAN players
- K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- AS Monaco FC players
- FC Girondins de Bordeaux players
- S.V. Zulte Waregem players
- Le Mans FC players
- Étoile Sportive du Sahel players
- Vitória S.C. players
- C.S. Marítimo players
- Changchun Yatai F.C. players
- AC Ajaccio players
- Ohod Club players
- Sektzia Ness Ziona F.C. players
- Jeunesse Esch players
- FC Differdange 03 players
- Chinese Super League players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Russian Premier League players
- Belgian Pro League players
- Primeira Liga players
- Danish Superliga players
- Saudi Pro League players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Monaco
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
- Expatriate men's footballers in China
- Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
- Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
- Expatriate men's footballers in Luxembourg
- 2012 Africa Cup of Nations players
- 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in France
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in China
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Nigerien expatriate sportspeople in Luxembourg