Lounès Gaouaoui

Lounès Gaouaoui

Personal information
Full name	Lounès Gaouaoui
Date of birth	(1977-09-28) September 28, 1977
Place of birth	Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	CS Constantine
Number	16
Youth career
1990–1997	USM Drâa Ben Khedda
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–1999	USM Drâa Ben Khedda	?	(?)
1999–2007	JS Kabylie	156	(0)
2007–2008	WA Tlemcen	42	(0)
2008–2009	USM Annaba	26	(0)
2009–2010	ASO Chlef	21	(0)
2010–2011	USM Blida	26	(0)
2012–2013	AS Khroub	0	(0)
2013–	CS Constantine	2	(0)
International career‡
2001–2010	Algeria	49	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:00, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Lounès Gaouaoui (born September 28, 1977 in Tizi Ouzou) is an Algerian football player who currently plays for CS Constantine in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. He is a goalkeeper known for spectacular leaping abilities.

He was a member of the Algerian national team that lost in the quarter-finals at the 2004 African Cup of Nations. He was until recently Algeria's first-choice goalkeeper and had played in all of his country's main qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but suspension and an attack of appendicitis forced him respectively to miss his country's World Cup qualification playoff against Egypt and the 2010 African Cup of Nations which both saw Faouzi Chaouchi replace him. This lengthy period of inactivity eventually cost him his spot as first-choice goalkeeper for the World Cup Finals, despite being named in the final squad.

Statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Algeria			League		Algerian Cup		Africa		Total
2006–07	WA Tlemcen	Championnat National	15	0	-	-	-		-	0
2007–08			26	0	6	0	-		27	0
2008–09	USM Annaba	Championnat National	26	0	1	0	-		27	0
2009–10	ASO Chlef	Championnat National	21	0	3	1	-		24	1
2010–11	USM Blida	Ligue 1	26	0	-	-	-		26	0
2012–13	CS Constantine	Ligue 1	2	0	-	-	-		2	0
Total	Algeria		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Career total			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Honours

• Won the Algerian league twice in 2004 and 2006 with JS Kabylie
• Runner up in the Algerian league twice in 2002 and 2005 with JS Kabylie
• Finalist of the Algerian Cup in 2004 with JS Kabylie
• Won the CAF Cup three times in 2000, 2001 and 2002 with JS Kabylie

His name is believed to be the only surname with seven vowels in a row, reported by the International Board of Statistics.

National team statistics

Algeria national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2001	1	0
2002	8	0
2003	3	0
2004	6	0
2005	2	0
2006	5	0
2007	6	0
2008	9	0
2009	8	0
2010	1	0
Total	49	0

External links

• Lounès Gaouaoui at National-Football-Teams.com