Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 11 September 1966 | ||
Place of birth | Montreuil-sous-Bois, France | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Olympique Noisy-le-Sec | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1986–1992 | Paris Saint-Germain | 76 | (9) |
1992–1995 | Nice | 97 | (29) |
1995–1996 | Saint-Étienne | 33 | (8) |
1996–1998 | Neuchâtel Xamax | 37 | (8) |
1998–2004 | Olympique Noisy-le-Sec | 106 | (7) |
Total | 341 | (63) | |
International career | |||
1987–1992 | Algeria | 5 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Liazid Sandjak (born 11 September 1966) is a former Algerian international footballer. In his career, he was a midfielder for several French and Swiss clubs and member of the Algeria national team.
Sandjak played professional football with Paris Saint-Germain F.C., OGC Nice, AS Saint-Étienne and Neuchâtel Xamax. Late in his career, he played amateur football with Olympique Noisy-le-Sec, where he received a two-year ban for shoving the referee after a match against Alès in October 2000. [1]
Sandjak made a substitute's appearance for the Algeria national football team in a 1988 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Tunisia in April 1987. [2] He also appeared in the 1992 African Cup of Nations finals in Senegal. [3]
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