Tarek Lazizi


Tarek "Baresi" Lazizi is a retired Algerian footballer in Finland. He played as a central defender.

Career

He was nicknamed «Baresi» after Italian defender Franco Baresi and is mostly remembered for his career-ending tackle on USM Alger forward Azzedine Rahim.

Club career

Lazizi was capped at all levels by Algeria. He received his first call-up to the senior national team in 1989 for a mini-tournament in Cameroon in preparation for the 1990 African Cup of Nations. He scored 2 goals for the national team, the first in the 1st leg match of the 1991 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations match against Iran, the second in the quarter-finals of the 1996 African Cup of Nations against South Africa.

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