Younes Khattabi

Younes Khattabi
Personal information
Born (1984-03-28) 28 March 1984
Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer, Morocco
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 93 kg (14 st 9 lb)
Playing information
Position Wing, Centre

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2006–08 Catalans Dragons 32 11 0 0 44
2008–11 RC Capentras XIII 36 23 0 0 92
2011–13 So Avignon 33 13 0 0 52
2013 AS Carcassonne 12 7 0 0 28
Total 113 54 0 0 216
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–13 France 2 0 0 0 0
2009 Morocco 1 1 0 0 4
As of 18 January 2018
Source: [1][2]

Younes Khattabi (born 28 March 1984) is a Moroccan rugby league player currently playing for SO Avignon in the French Elite One Championship competition. He is famous for scoring the first try for the Catalans Dragons in the 2007 Challenge Cup Final against St Helens, thus becoming the first Muslim to score a try at Wembley Stadium.

Background

Khattabi was born in Rabat, Morocco.

International career

Khattabi represented Morocco in a 2009 RLEF Euro Med Challenge match against Catalonia. He scored a try in the 29-6 win.

Khattabi represented France in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.

References

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