Sofiane Feghouli

Sofiane Feghouli is a French-born Algerian winger who won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations with Algeria. At the 2014 World Cup he scored Algeria's first World Cup goal since 1986. He was born on 26 December 1989 in Levallois-Perret, near Paris.

Feghouli was the youngest of 4 sons of Algerian-born parents. He grew up in Saint-Ouen, where Red Star was his first club.

At Grenoble he signed his first professional contract, and the club won promotion to Ligue 1 in 2008. In 2010 he joined Valencia, in Spain, where he played for 6 seasons.

A season at West Ham, in London, followed in 2016, and then 5 seasons at Galatasaray, in Istanbul. There he won the Turkish league title in 2018 and 2019.

The young winger chose Algeria in 2011 and scored on his debut against Gambia in February 2012. That year he was named Algerian player of the year. On 17 June 2014 his penalty against Belgium was Algeria's first World Cup goal in 28 years.

In 2019 he started the Africa Cup of Nations final, which Algeria won 1-0 against Senegal. He won more than 80 caps, and later played in Turkey and Iraq.