Rachid Belabed

Rachid Belabed (born 20 October 1980 in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Moroccan footballer, who plays for Luxembourg 1. Division club SC Steinfort.

Football career

Belabed signed for Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen in 1999 for a fee of £100,000. He made 40 appearances in the Scottish Premier League, scoring once against Dundee United, before leaving the club when his contract expired in 2002. He then signed for Belgian side La Louviere, who sacked him in 2004 for attacking a journalist. While at La Louvière he helped them win the 2002–03 Belgian Cup.

Personal life Belabed was born in Belgium to a Moroccan father and an Algerian mother.

In 2004, Belabed assaulted Claude Moniquet, a journalist. Belabed's actions followed remarks made by Moniquet during a televised debate on terrorism. Belabed had accused Moniquet of being racist and an enemy of Islam.