Both trained at FC Foix-Montgailhard, and initiated into football by their dad, Ali, a good player in his youth and who transmitted his passion for the round ball to them, Ayoub and Habib Ouhafsa continue their journey in the world of the ball. round. The first, now 23 years old, will leave Rodez (Ligue 2, 3 goals, 33 games played in 2020/2021) next season, to join Neuchâtel Xamax FCS, which plays in the equivalent of the League 2, but in Switzerland. “I am very happy about it, confides the young center forward. It is a new adventure which begins”. Ayoub Ouhafsa signed a two-year contract with the Swiss club, which has ten participations in the Europa League, but whose best performance, at this international level, dates back to 1982 and 1986. Before Rodez, Abib Ouahafsa had played in Pamiers, Muret and Colomiers.
It is precisely the Colomiers club that welcomes his younger brother Ayoub, also trained in Foix. The young defender, aged 19, had his lessons with Samir Hachemi, assistant coach of R2, will also play there next season. He joined the Toulouse region club in July 2020, after three years spent at the Montpellier training center. And, also, after a course in “blue”: two matches played within the U16 tricolors, against the Czech selection, in September 2017.
The two brothers figure prominently in the “golden generation” of the FCFM, which includes Sandro Lourenco, who plays in Montpellier, within the national U19 selection, or Sami Bahri, who had signed a contract as a pro trainee at Stocke City (British Ligue 2) before having to change its plans, because of the Breixit. Or Logan Delaurier-Chaubet, midfielder in the Bordeaux reserve team.
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