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Baghdad Bounedjah

1991 - Today

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Baghdad Saddam Bounedjah (Arabic: بَغْدَاد صَدَّام بُونَجَاح, born 24 November 1991) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Qatar Stars League club Al-Shamal and the Algeria national team. Throughout his club career until 2015, Bounedjah played for Algerian sides RCG Oran and USM El Harrach, and Tunisian side Étoile du Sahel, before joining Qatari club Al Sadd in 2015. In the 2018–19 Qatar Stars League season, he scored a league record of 39 goals in one season, and was the world's leading goalscorer during the 2018 calendar year with 58 goals overall. Bounedjah made his senior debut for Algeria in 2014 and has represented his nation at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and four editions of the Africa Cup of Nations; he was a member of the squad that won the 2019 tournament, scoring the winning goal in the final. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Baghdad Bounedjah is the 7,993rd most popular soccer player (down from 6,271st in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 167th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Algerian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Baghdad Bounedjah ranks 7,993 out of 21,273Before him are Humberlito Borges, Nicolas Nkoulou, Sebastian Boenisch, Kim Yong-dae, Alexandru Epureanu, and Timothy Fosu-Mensah. After him are Niša Saveljić, Makito Hatanaka, Yazid Mansouri, Yusuke Tanahashi, Tadashi Koya, and Luís Neto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, Baghdad Bounedjah ranks 209Before him are Toby Fox, Willian José, Willa Holland, Tomáš Satoranský, Artur Aleksanyan, and Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster. After him are Francis Coquelin, Adam Smith, Kento Onodera, Sun Yang, Gaia Weiss, and Heidi Weng.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Baghdad Bounedjah ranks 175 out of 213Before him are Djamel Mesbah (1984), Karim Maroc (1958), Fodil Megharia (1961), Ali Benarbia (1968), Mustapha Kouici (1954), and Mourad Amara (1959). After him are Hocine Soltani (1972), Hocine Yahi (1960), Djabir Saïd-Guerni (1977), Rafik Saïfi (1975), Faouzi Chaouchi (1984), and Rafik Halliche (1986).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Algeria

Among soccer players born in Algeria, Baghdad Bounedjah ranks 35Before him are Djamel Mesbah (1984), Karim Maroc (1958), Fodil Megharia (1961), Ali Benarbia (1968), Mustapha Kouici (1954), and Mourad Amara (1959). After him are Hocine Yahi (1960), Rafik Saïfi (1975), Faouzi Chaouchi (1984), Rafik Halliche (1986), Saïd Benrahma (1995), and Mohamed Chaïb (1957).