Youssef Chippo

Youssef Chippo

Personal information
Full name	يوسف شيبو
Date of birth	(1973-05-10) 10 May 1973
Place of birth	Boujad, Morocco
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1995	KAC Kenitra	??	(??)
1995–1997	Al Arabi	??	(??)
1997–1999	FC Porto	30	(2)
1999–2003	Coventry City	122	(6)
2003–2005	Al Sadd	??	(??)
2005–2006	Al-Wakra	??	(??)
Total		152+	(8+)
International career
1995–2006	Morocco	62	(8)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12-07-10

Youssef Chippo (Arabic: يوسف شيبو‎‎; born 10 May 1973 in Boujad) is a retired footballer from Morocco. He was a renowned midfielder on the national squad during the 1990s, and was a member of the team that participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain and the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

He began his career at KAC Kenitra and also spent 2 seasons at FC Porto where he began to display his talent in Europe.

His next stop came with Coventry City in the Premier League where he played alongside fellow Moroccan international Mustapha Hadji, in the middle of the park. He signed for them in 1999 and they were relegated in his second season, but he remained at the club for two more seasons before leaving to play in Qatar.

In February 2007 it was reported that Hibernian had taken Chippo on trial, but he was released shortly afterwards. In October 2007, Swedish club Hammarby IF also gave him a trial, but he wasn't offered a contract.

International career

Chippo missed out on the 2004 African Nations Cup in Tunisia, and had been out of the Morocco squad for two years, after falling out with the team's former coach, Badou Zaki. He was only called up to the team a few weeks ahead of the 2006 African Nations Cup by new coach Mohammed Fakkir.

Chippo had 62 caps with the Moroccan team prior to the 2006 African Nations Cup. The competition was his fourth Nations Cup finals, and purportedly his last, declaring his retirement from international competition after the cup.

Honours

• Portuguese Liga (2):
  • 1997–98, 1998–99
• Portuguese Cup (1):
  • 1997–98
• Portuguese SuperCup (1):
  • 1998
• Qatar National First Division (1):
  • 2004

External links

• Youssef Chippo at National-Football-Teams.com