Bougherra Named Arab Player of The Year 2010

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Algeria international and Glasgow Rangers defender Madjid Bougherra was named Arab footballer of the year 2010, following an online poll organized by the Saudi TV station MBC.

 

The 28-year-old centre back cleared over 45% of the votes cast in which more than 75,000 Internet users participated.

 

Bougherra beat Oman international and Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al Habssi who scored 16.6% to second position. Another Algerian, VfL Wolfsburg midfielder Karim Ziani came third with 12.37%.

 

http://www.goal.com/en/news/89/africa/2010/10/22/2178744/algerias-glasgow-rangers-defender-madjid-bougherra-named?

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Boogie stats compiled by an FF'er:

 

I noticed when I posted a thread the other day about our record against Celtic with both 1st choice centre backs (hint: its excellent) that Bougherra is p4 w3 d1 l0 against them. Knowing he'd missed a few games last season and most of our recent defeats have been to them I wondered what his overall record was like.

 

The only domestic defeats he's played in:

05.10.2008 St Mirren 0-1

29.11.2008 Hearts 1-2

04.03.2009 Caley 0-1 (92nd minute penalty)

 

Defeats he's effectively or completely missed

28.11.2009 Aberdeen 0-1 (Bougherra off bench at 0-1 down 78th minute)

15.03.2009 Celtic 0-2 (Co-op cup final)

27.12.2008 Celtic 0-1 SPL

30.03.2010 St Johnstone 1-4 SPL

04.05.2010 Celtic 1-2 SPL

24.03.2010 Dundee Utd 0-1 (Scottish Cup)

 

Since that defeat to Hearts in 2008 the one match he's lost - (bbc match report) was a late Weir mistake and all but a draw. If you did put the Caley match to one side and our side's last 6 defeats came without Bougherra playing. I've ignored Champions league games here, although he's missed a good few of the defeats there too (Kaunas, Unirea Urziceni, Stuttgart but played in the h&a defeats to Sevilla).

 

For those that like to compare the two Cuellar played 36 SPL matches and lost 5 whereas Bougherra has played 63 for the record above, although all this could equally be said of Weir & Bougherra as a partnership.

 

Looking at the sides that played in the defeats I don't think anyone comes close to this record if it was a measure our most influencial player. Davis has lost 9 (in 89 appearances) for instance, if that was similar across the board we're something close to 3 times less likely to lose if Bougherra/Weir start the match.