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Rebekka Benbakoura

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Rebekka Benbakoura
Benbakoura with Kastoria in 2024
Personal information
Full name Rebekka Fjálsá Benbakoura
Date of birth (1999-01-05) 5 January 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Faroe Islands
Height 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
HB
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2022 HB 84 (42)
2023 20 (21)
2024 Kastoria 12 (3)
2024– HB 2 (1)
International career
Faroe Islands 20 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 August 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Rebekka Fjallsá Benbakoura (born 5 January 1999) is a Faroese footballer who plays as a forward for 1. deild kvinnur club HB and the Faroe Islands women's national team.

Early life

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Benbakoura was born on 5 January 1999 in the Faroe Islands to an Algerian father, who was raised in Belgium, and a Faroese mother.[1]

Career

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Benbakoura has been capped for the Faroe Islands national team, appearing for the team during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying cycle.[2]

Personal life

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Benbakoura's father converted from Islam to Protestantism. Her parents met in 1996 in Brussels, where her father was working in a hotel and her mother was visiting the sister. The couple moved to and married in the Faroe Islands in 1998, just a year before her birth.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rabah fann litfagra landið". 26 August 2005.
  2. ^ "Women World Cup Qualifiers Europe 2017/2018 » Teams (Faroe Islands)". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
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