Mustapha Yaghcha

{{short description|Moroccan footballer}}

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| fullname = Mustapha Yaghcha

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|11|7}}

| birth_place =Morocco

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| position = Defender

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| clubs1 = Difaa El Jadida

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| years2 = 1975–1979

| clubs2 = CS Chênois

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| years3 = 1980–1983

| clubs3 = Servette FC

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| nationalyears1 = 1971–1983

| nationalteam1 = Morocco{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/maro-recintlp.html|title=Morocco - Record International Players|website=www.rsssf.org}}

| nationalcaps1 = 31 | nationalgoals1 = 7

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Mustapha Yaghcha (born 7 November 1952{{Cite web |url=http://www.agfc.ch/fr/arbitre.php?IdArbitre=51 |title=Association Genevoise de Football Corporatif |access-date=2014-10-01 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006081103/http://www.agfc.ch/fr/arbitre.php?IdArbitre=51 |url-status=dead }}) is a retired Moroccan football defender.

Career

Yaghcha played club football for Difaa El Jadida in the Botola.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dhj-foot.com/palmares.htm |title=DHJ : Palmares |access-date=2009-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100113174414/http://www.dhj-foot.com/palmares.htm |archive-date=2010-01-13 |url-status=dead }} He also played for CS Chênois and Servette FC{{Cite web |url=http://www.servettefc.ch/fr/soutien/membres-hof.php |title=Servette Football Club |access-date=2009-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303192234/http://www.servettefc.ch/fr/soutien/membres-hof.php |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} in the Swiss Super League.[http://archives.tdg.ch/TG/TG/-/article-2001-05-1054/toujours-pret-mustapha-refuse-rarement-d-arbitrer-un-matchl-association-cantonale-genevoise-de]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Yaghcha played for the Morocco national football team at the 1972 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|publisher=Sports Reference|title=Moustafa Yaghcha Biography and Statistics|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/moustafa-yaghcha-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054041/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/moustafa-yaghcha-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|accessdate=2009-08-28}}

In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.{{cite web|publisher=Le Matin|title=Meilleur joueur des 50 dernières années 14 Marocains en lice|url=http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Journal/Article.asp?origine=jrn&idr=114&id=70173|language=French|date=2006-10-13|accessdate=2009-08-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055322/http://www.lematin.ma/Actualite/Journal/Article.asp?origine=jrn&idr=114&id=70173|archive-date=2011-07-16|url-status=dead}}

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