Madjid
Bougherra
Madjid Bougherra (Arabic: مجيد بوغرة; born 7 October 1982) an Algerian professional footballer who currently plays for Al-Fujairah in the UAE Arabian
Gulf League. He is a central defender, who can also play as a midfielder.
Bougherra began his professional football career with French club Gueugnon before having spells with English sides Crewe Alexandra, Sheffield Wednesday and Charlton Athletic. Bougherra moved to Rangers in the summer of 2008 for a fee of £2.5 million, he made his debut
against Falkirk in August of that year. Bougherra made 113 appearances for Rangers and
was a key part of the team that won the Scottish Premier League championship in seasons 2008–09, 2009–10 and 2010–11. In August 2011 Rangers sold Bougherra to Lekhwiya for £1.7 million.
An Algerian international since 2004, Bougherra has won 64 international caps and scored 4 goals for theAlgeria national football team, participating in the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, where Algeria finished fourth, and the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He served as the team's captain for the 2014 World Cup.
Madjid Bougherra was captain of Les Fennecs, Algeria's National team
concurrently with his captaining of Lekhwiya (QSL) from 2011 -2014, and
captained the Fennecs for the 2014 World Cup and the 2015 AFCON.
Club career
Early career
Bougherra
began his career at AS Quetigny in 1999
Gueugnon
Bougherra
joined French side Gueugnon in
July 2002. Whilst with the Ligue 2 side
Bougherra made 49 league appearances and scored one goal. He also made a single
appearance in the Coupe de la Ligue.[1]
Crewe Alexandra
Bougherra
joined English First Division club Crewe Alexandra on
loan at the end of January 2006.[2] He
managed to get into the Crewe record books as his agent,Charles
Collymore recommended the Algerian defender to the
South Cheshire club and was given £5,000 by the club, making him
the first agent to receive a fee from Crewe.[3]
After
a number of impressive performances, including a goal in the 4–1 win over Coventry City,[4] many
of the club's supporters urged then manager Dario Gradi to
sign Bougherra on a permanent basis. However, in April 2006, he confirmed he
would leave Crewe at the end of his loan spell after failing to help the club
avoid relegation to League One.[5]
Sheffield Wednesday
Bougherra
whilst playing for Sheffield Wednesday
Bougherra's
performances at Crewe had attracted interest from a number of clubs in England,
including some from the Premier League. He
signed for another Championship club, Sheffield Wednesday, in
May 2006 on a permanent deal. The fee was undisclosed, but according to
then-manager Paul Sturrock it
was not as much as the reported £300,000.[6]
Bougherra
made a big impact at Hillsborough after
making his debut on 5 August 2006 against Preston North End,
winning the Player of the Month award in only his second month at the club and captaining the
team for the first time against Queens Park Rangers at
home in October 2006. He also scored twice for the Owls against Ipswich[7] and
West Brom[8] in
the first half of the 2006–07 season.
Charlton Athletic
During
the January 2007 transfer window,
Bougherra was linked with several Premier League clubs. Sheffield Wednesday
rejected a £1.3 million offer from Charlton Athletic,[9] whilst Reading,[10] Everton[11] and Birmingham City were
also rumoured to be interested. Eventually the Owls accepted an increased offer
of £2.5m from Charlton for Bougherra, who completed his move to The Valley on
28 January 2007.[12] Bougherra
was linked with a transfer to West Bromwich Albion in
the summer of 2008 after a transfer fee of £2.5 million was accepted by
Charlton. However, Bougherra chose not to join Albion, saying that the absence
of West Brom chairmanJeremy Peace during
negotiations was a major factor; Peace commented that his presence was not
required for the transfer to go through.[13]
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