User:Soccermarket/Zineb Rechiche

Zineb Rechiche (زينب رشيش; born 7 August 1989) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for club Abu Dhabi Country Club and for Morocco national team. Rechiche moved out of her hometown Rabat at the age of 13 to fulfill her dream to become a football player. She started training with Paris Saint Germain U-16 Girls and FC Massy 91 U-14 Boys and signed her first pro contract at French club COMB Bagneux in 2005 after being noticed by the club honorary President. Two years later she signed for Canadian club Montreal Elite Concordia and played also for the Carabins of Universite de Montreal.

Rechiche is known for her finishing, long passes, and precise free kicks. Inspired by Raul Gonzalez Blanco captain of Real Madrid FC, she started as a forward but was moved to the midfield, valued as a smart player with great abilities to read the game.

Rechiche speaks fluently arabic, french, spanish and english. In an interview in 2010 by Uruguayan journalist Pablo Gobba in Johannesburg, Rechiche was asked why she was perfectly fluent in spanish and answered that she learned spanish at the age of 12 on her own while watching and reading news of her favorite team growing up Real Madrid FC.

She is the daughter of moroccan cinema pioneer and movie director Abdelmajid R'chich and cousin of moroccan cameraman Imad Rechiche.