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Medhi Benatia

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Medhi Amine El Mouttaqi Benatia (Arabic: المهدي أمين المتقي بن عطية; French pronunciation: [mɛdi bɛnatia]; born 17 April 1987) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, who is currently the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Marseille. Benatia is well known for his tenures throughout France, Italy, and Germany, he represented Morocco at the international level, making 66 international appearances, and most notably captained them to their first World Cup in twenty years. Benatia began his career at Marseille, being loaned out to Tours and Lorient before joining Clermont in 2008. Two years later he joined Udinese, spending three seasons there before transferring to Roma. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Medhi Benatia is the 3,134th most popular soccer player (down from 3,000th in 2019), the 4,504th most popular biography from France (down from 4,483rd in 2019) and the 146th most popular French Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Medhi Benatia ranks 3,134 out of 21,273. Before him are Héctor Socorro, Egisto Pandolfini, Marcel Artelesa, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Sávio, and Kurt Axelsson. After him are Ramón Heredia, Luis Marín, Serhou Guirassy, Tetsuya Ogura, José Callejón, and Yasutoshi Miura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Medhi Benatia ranks 75. Before him are Seo In-guk, Jorge Lorenzo, Michael B. Jordan, Rose Leslie, Sergio Romero, and Kazuki Ito. After him are José Callejón, Kerem Bürsin, Adrián, Ramires, Nicole Aniston, and Seydou Doumbia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Medhi Benatia ranks 4,504 out of 6,770. Before him are François Hesnault (1956), Henry Monnier (1799), Edmund Dulac (1882), René Bazin (1853), Francis Blanche (1921), and Charles Perrin (1875). After him are Serhou Guirassy (1996), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443), Loïc Wacquant (1960), Georges Verriest (1909), and Jean Vilar (1912).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, Medhi Benatia ranks 146. Before him are Ferland Mendy (1995), Jacques Simon (1941), Bruno Bellone (1962), Raymond Bellot (1929), Alain Perrin (1956), and Marcel Artelesa (1938). After him are Serhou Guirassy (1996), Georges Verriest (1909), Norbert Eschmann (1933), Stéphane Bruey (1932), Daniel Bravo (1963), and Yves Herbet (1945).

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