Farouq Limouri

Farouq Limouri (born 15 March 2003) is a Dutch-Moroccan footballer who plays as a defender for Sparta Rotterdam.

Farouq Limouri
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-03-15) 15 March 2003
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Sparta Rotterdam
Youth career
Feyenoord
Sparta Rotterdam
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021– Sparta Rotterdam 0 (0)
2021 → Telstar (loan) 9 (0)
2021– Jong Sparta Rotterdam 27 (0)
International career
2021 Morocco U20
2021– Netherlands U19
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:34 09 May, 2023 (UTC)

Club career

Limouri played in the youth academy of Feyenoord before joining Sparta Rotterdam. He signed his first contract in January 2021, to run until 2023.[1] After joining SC Telstar on loan he made his professional football debut in the Eerste Divisie on 19 February 2021, in a 1–1 draw at home against FC Eindhoven, an experience he described as a “dream come true”.[2] In August 2021 a match between Jong Sparta and Koninklijke HFC was abandoned after a head injury to Limouri caused an ambulance to have come to the pitch and take him to hospital with concussion from an accidental collision with an opposing player, American youth international Desevio Payne.[3]

International career

In June 2021 Limouri was called up the Moroccan squad for the 2021 Arab Cup U-20 held in Egypt.[4] He was called up to the Netherlands U19 squad in October 2021.[5]

References
  1. "FAROUQ LIMOURI SIGNS FIRST CONTRACT WITH SPARTA". Spartarotterdam.net.
  2. "Debut Limouri for Telstar boyhood dream: "Have a nice bang and I'll just do my best"". nhnieuws.nl.
  3. "Young Sparta player Farouq Limouri to hospital by ambulance". voetball247.nl.
  4. "Morocco under 20 calls on 4 players from the Netherlands". 11lions.nl.
  5. "Xavi Simons called up to the Netherlands U19 squad". PSG.fr.
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