Walid El Karti
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Personal information
Date of birth
23 July 1994
Place of birth
Morocco
Playing position
Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
Wydad Casablanca
Number
18
Morocco
Wydad Casablanca 2013-
Article
Senior career
Olympique Khouribga
2011-2013
2x apps / 0x goal
Wydad Casablanca
2013-
95x apps / 8x goals
National team
Morocco
2014-
1x apps / 0x goal
(Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 26 May 2014 - National team caps and goals correct as of 26 January 2015)
Walid El Karti is a Moroccan professional footballer, who plays as an attacking midfielder for Wydad Casablanca.
International career
In January 2014, coach Hassan Benabicha, invited him to be a part of the Morocca squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship.
He helped the team to top Group B after drawing with Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe and defeating Uganda.
The team was eliminated from the competition at the quarter final stage after losing to Nigeria.
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has become the first player to be named African Footballer of the Year four years in a row.
draw for Confederation Cup held
preliminary round draw
Morocco's Mehdi Benatia scores as Bayern Munich beat Augsburg 4:0 to go 10 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.
Aziz el Amri stepped down as coach of Moroccan side Moghreb Tetouan following their disappointing showing at the Fifa Club World Cup.
Morocco will not host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations because of its fears over the Ebola outbreak elsewhere on the continent, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed.
Morocco have failed to meet the deadline to confirm it will host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in January.
The Confederation of African Football has reiterated it will not move the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations from January and has given Morocco until Saturday to decide if they will host as scheduled.
Morocco's government has written to the Confederation of African Football to delay the 17 January to 8 February event because of the Ebola outbreak.
The biennial competition is scheduled to be held between 17 January and 8 February 2015.
