Farouq Limouri (Arabic: فاروق ليموري; born 15 March 2003) is a Dutch-Moroccan footballer who plays as a defender for Eerste Divisie club FC Eindhoven.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 March 2003 | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Eindhoven | ||
| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Feyenoord | |||
| Sparta Rotterdam | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2021 | Sparta Rotterdam | 0 | (0) |
| 2021 | → Telstar (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Jong Sparta Rotterdam | 30 | (0) |
| 2023– | FC Eindhoven | 35 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | Morocco U20 | ||
| 2021–2022 | Netherlands U19 | 4 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 June 2022 | |||
Club career
editLimouri played in the youth academy of Feyenoord before joining Sparta Rotterdam. He signed his first contract in January 2021, to run until 2023.[1] After joining SC Telstar on loan he made his professional football debut in the Eerste Divisie on 19 February 2021, in a 1–1 draw at home against FC Eindhoven, an experience he described as a “dream come true”.[2] In August 2021 a match between Jong Sparta and Koninklijke HFC was abandoned after a head injury to Limouri caused an ambulance to have come to the pitch and take him to hospital with concussion from an accidental collision with an opposing player, American youth international Desevio Payne.[3]
For the 2023–24 season, Limouri signed with FC Eindhoven.[4]
International career
editIn June 2021 Limouri was called up the Moroccan squad for the 2021 Arab Cup U-20 held in Egypt.[5] He was called up to the Netherlands U19 squad in October 2021.[6]
References
edit- ^ "FAROUQ LIMOURI SIGNS FIRST CONTRACT WITH SPARTA". Spartarotterdam.net.
- ^ "Debut Limouri for Telstar boyhood dream: "Have a nice bang and I'll just do my best"". nhnieuws.nl.
- ^ "Young Sparta player Farouq Limouri to hospital by ambulance". voetball247.nl.
- ^ "LIMOURI KOMT VERDEDIGING VERSTERKEN" (in Dutch). FC Eindhoven. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ "Morocco under 20 calls on 4 players from the Netherlands". 11lions.nl.
- ^ "Xavi Simons called up to the Netherlands U19 squad". PSG.fr.
External links
edit- Farouq Limouri at Soccerway