Football in mourning

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By: Manu Tournoux

Having passed through several clubs in France before returning to Morocco, the young left back Oussama Falouh died at the age of 24, three weeks after a terrible car accident.

Terrible news for Moroccan football. The Wydad Casablanca club has indeed announced the death of its defender Oussama Falouh at only 24 years old. Victim of a serious road accident on October 11 due to a heavy goods vehicle which violently hit his vehicle, the left side succumbed to his injuries after three weeks spent in intensive care in a hospital in Casablanca.

If he had never been entitled to the honors of the selection, Oussama Falouh was not unknown in France. Not because of his two selections with the Lion Cubs of the Atlas (U-23), but because the young Moroccan had spent several years in France, frequenting the reserves of Angers and Strasbourg with a few appearances to boot. on SCO match sheets without actually coming into play.

Then leaving for Avranches, Oussama Falouh played 22 National matches there and two others in the Coupe de France before joining Wydad Casablanca last summer.

Trained at the Mohamed VI academy, Oussama Falouh had rubbed shoulders with the Olympique de Marseille international, Azzedine Ounahi, with whom he had become very close and whom he had met again in Avranches and Angers.