Walid Birrou

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Walid Birrou
Personal information
Full name Walid Birrou
Date of birth (1995-09-06) September 6, 1995 (age 30)
Place of birth Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Dhangadhi F.C.
Youth career
2011–2014 Gandía
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2018 Oakland City University 28 (0)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 CD Teruel
2018–2019 Little Rock Rangers
2019–2020 Atlanta SC
2020–2021 Almagro
2021 FC Wichita
2021–2022 Stade Marocain
2022 RB Keflavík 12 (0)
2022–2023 Þróttur Vogum
2023 Njarðvík
2023–2024 Glacis United
2024–2025 Kaya–Iloilo
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Walid Birrou Essafi (born 6 September 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.[1][2]

Personal life

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Birrou was born in the city of Vilanova i la Geltrú in Spain and is of Moroccan heritage. He is the eldest of two brothers.[3][4]

Club career

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Youth and college career

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Until the age of 19, Birrou played for the youth team of Gandía, before playing for lower league side CD Teruel while pursuing his studies.[3] From 2017 to 2018, he played football for Oakland City University, making 27 appearances in 2 seasons before graduating.[5][6][7]

Early club career

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After graduating, Birrou left Oakland and Teruel and signed for USL League Two side Little Rock Rangers, where he played for two seasons.[8][9][10] He transferred to Atlanta SC in 2019[4] before returning to Spain and sign with Almagro CF.[11][12][13]

After two seasons, he returned to the US to play for FC Wichita.[14] A year later, he played in the second tier of Morocco football, playing for Stade Marocain.[3]

Iceland and Gibraltar

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In 2022 he left Stade Marocain and played for Icelandic side RB Keflavík.[15] He stayed with them for a short while before transferring to Þróttur Vogum in the same year.[16] In 2023, he signed with second-tier side Njarðvík.[17][18][19]

In August that year, he transferred to the Gibraltar Football League, signing for Glacis United where he made 8 appearances and kept 2 clean sheets.[20]

Kaya

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In 2024, Birrou left Glacis United to join Filipino club Kaya–Iloilo, who were defending champions of the Philippines Football League.[21] [22][23] He made his first appearance and got his first clean sheet for the club in the opening match against United City.

Honours

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Kaya–Iloilo

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References

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