 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (May 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 11 May 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kenitra, Morocco[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | ASFAR | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2016– | ASFAR | |||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Morocco U20 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Morocco | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nouhaila Benzina (Arabic: نهيلة بنزينة;[2] born 11 May 1998) is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a defender for AS FAR and the Morocco women's national team.[3]
In July 2023, she made history as the first female player to ever wear an Islamic headscarf (a hijab) at the senior-level FIFA Women's World Cup.[4][5] She is considered a role model for Muslim female footballers.[6]
- ^ "Nouhaïla BenzinaStats and titles won21/22". footballdatabase.eu. 11 May 1998. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ^ "المنتخب النسوي يخوض تجمعا إعداديا" (in Arabic). 15 February 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- ^ "Benzina set to make history on World Cup day five". BBC Sport. 23 July 2023.
- ^ "Nouhaila Benzina makes history as first player to wear a hijab at the Women's World Cup". ABC News. 24 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ "World Cup: How the hijab became tournament-ready – DW – 07/26/2023". dw.com. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ Farooq, Manish Pandey & Iqra (30 July 2023). "Women's World Cup 2023: 'Nouhaila Benzina is a role model to us'". BBC News. Retrieved 1 August 2023.