Driss Bamous

Driss Bamous

Personal information
Full name	Driss Bamous
Date of birth	(1942-12-15)15 December 1942
Place of birth	Berrechid, Morocco
Date of death
Place of death	Rabat, Morocco
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1963–1975	FAR Rabat
International career
–	Morocco	35
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Driss Bamous (15 December 1942 – 16 April 2015) was a Moroccan football midfielder. He was also a trained professional soldier at the military academy of Saint Cyr, France.

Career

Bamous played club football for FAR Rabat in the Botola. Bamous played for the Morocco national football team at the 1964 Summer Olympics and at the 1970 FIFA World Cup finals. Following his playing career, Bamous became the president of the FRMF and organized the 1988 African Cup of Nations in Morocco. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years. He was promoted to Brigadier General of the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie in 2003.

Personal

Bamous died from a long-term illness in Rabat aged 72.