Mehdi Messaoudi
Personal information
Full name	Mehdi Messaoudi
Date of birth	March 8, 1989 (1989-03-08) (age 20)
Place of birth	Nice, France
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Midfielder and Defender
Club information
Current club	Gap FC
Youth career
2004–2008	AS Saint-Étienne
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2008–2009 2009–	AS Saint-Étienne Gap FC	1 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:15, 25 November 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Mehdi Messaoudi (Arabic: مَدهي مَساودي‎) (born March 8, 1989 in Nice, France) is a French-Moroccan footballer. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for Gap FC. His first name is often misspelled as Medhi.

Contents 1 Football career 2 International Career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Football career

Mehdi has been apart of Saint-Étienne since 2004. After spending nearly four years in their youth system, he began training with the senior squad for the 2008-09 season. However, he was officially promoted to the senior squad, along with Yoann Andreu and Lounis Lanseur, following the firing of Laurent Roussey and the hiring of new manager Alain Perrin who was looking to reshuffle Saint-Étienne's defense and fill the squad, which was decimated with injuries.^[1]He was assigned the number 31 shirt.

Mehdi made his professional debut on December 20, 2008 coming on as a substitute playing 35 minutes in a 2-0 victory over Auxerre.^[2]

[edit] International Career

Despite being born in France, Mehdi has pledged his future to the Morocco national football team, just like fellow French-born Moroccans Marouane Chamakh, Karim Aït-Fana, and Michaël Chrétien Basser. He is currently playing with the under-21s.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile on Saint-Etienne Website
• LFP Profile

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