Mouhcine Bouhlal

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameMouhcine•Bouhlal
Used nameMouhcine•Bouhlal
Original nameمحسن•بهلل
Born22 April 1970 in Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (MAR)
Died5 April 2025 (aged 54 years 11 months 13 days) in Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra (MAR)
AffiliationsFAR Rabat, Rabat (MAR)
NOC Morocco

Biography

Moroccan football defender Mouhcine Bouhlal began his senior career with FAR Rabat in the 1988–89 season, staying with the club until he retired in 1999. With the team Bouhlal won the Moroccan championship in 1989 and the Moroccan Throne Cup in 1999, and reached the final in the latter in 1990, 1996, and 1998. In the early 1990s he made his début with the Morocco national football team, winning bronze at the 1991 Mediterranean Games and competing at the Barcelona Olympics one year later. Bouhlal went on to play 20 international matches from 1990 to 1996, including playing in qualification matches for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. More than 20 years after retiring as a player, he returned to FAR Rabat in 2020 where he had a brief spell as the club’s caretaker manager.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1992 Summer Olympics Football (Football) MAR Mouhcine Bouhlal
Football, Men (Olympic) Morocco 15

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