Lakhdar Belloumi

Lakhdar Belloumi stands, for me, among football's most underappreciated geniuses. Widely regarded as the greatest Algerian player ever and ranked the fourth-best African of the century by IFFHS, this attacking midfielder is even credited with inventing the blind pass. That detail tells you everything: he played with intuition and trust rather than mere sight, conducting matches with vision that bordered on instinct. At 178 cm he ruled the pitch with his mind more than his frame. I love players who turn anticipation into art, and I think a talent who carried Mascara's name to the world stage deserves to be remembered far more widely.

Name (English)

Lakhdar Belloumi

Name (Japanese)

ラフダル・ベルミ

Reading

らふだる・べるみ

Born

December 29, 1958 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Mascara, Mascara Province, Algeria

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach / futsal player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakhdar%20Belloumi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176426

Tags

• Mascara Province
• association football player
• association football coach
• futsal player

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.