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Farouq Limouri (Arabic: فاروق ليموري; born 15 March 2003) is a Dutch-Moroccan footballer who plays as a defender for Eerste Divisie club FC Eindhoven.

Club career

Limouri played in the youth academy of Feyenoord before joining Sparta Rotterdam. He signed his first contract in January 2021, to run until 2023. After joining SC Telstar on loan he made his professional football debut in the Eerste Divisie on 19 February 2021, in a 1–1 draw at home against FC Eindhoven, an experience he described as a “dream come true”. In August 2021 a match between Jong Sparta and Koninklijke HFC was abandoned after a head injury to Limouri caused an ambulance to have come to the pitch and take him to hospital with concussion from an accidental collision with an opposing player, American youth international Desevio Payne.

For the 2023–24 season, Limouri signed with FC Eindhoven.

International career

In June 2021 Limouri was called up the Moroccan squad for the 2021 Arab Cup U-20 held in Egypt. He was called up to the Netherlands U19 squad in October 2021.

References

1. "FAROUQ LIMOURI SIGNS FIRST CONTRACT WITH SPARTA". Spartarotterdam.net.
2. "Debut Limouri for Telstar boyhood dream: "Have a nice bang and I'll just do my best"". nhnieuws.nl.
3. "Young Sparta player Farouq Limouri to hospital by ambulance". voetball247.nl.
4. "LIMOURI KOMT VERDEDIGING VERSTERKEN" (in Dutch). FC Eindhoven. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
5. "Morocco under 20 calls on 4 players from the Netherlands". 11lions.nl.
6. "Xavi Simons called up to the Netherlands U19 squad". PSG.fr.

External links

• Farouq Limouri at Soccerway

• Living people
• 2003 births
• Dutch sportspeople of Moroccan descent
• Dutch men's footballers
• Netherlands men's youth international footballers
• Men's association football defenders
• Eerste Divisie players
• Sparta Rotterdam players
• FC Eindhoven players
• 21st-century Dutch sportsmen
• Jong Sparta players