Abdelaziz Ben Tifour

Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (25 July 1927 to 19 November 1970) was an Algerian-born professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Hussein Dey in French Algeria, he began in Tunis with Espérance Sportive de Tunis and Club Sportif de Hammam Lif before moving to France in 1948 to join OGC Nice, where over six seasons he won two league titles and a French Cup. He later played for AS Troyes-Savinienne and AS Monaco, making 280 appearances and scoring 62 goals in the French top division. He earned four caps for the France national team, including an appearance at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, and in 1958 he left France to help form the FLN football team that represented the Algerian independence movement. After independence he returned to Algeria as player-coach of USM Alger, which won the first Algerian championship in 1963, and he died aged 43 while coaching JS Kabylie.