Badou Zaki

Badou Zaki — the English article titles him Ezzaki Badou — is a Moroccan football coach and former goalkeeper, born in Sidi Kacem on 2 April 1959. Named African Footballer of the Year in 1986, he went on to one of the longest coaching careers in Moroccan football, leading Morocco to the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations final and taking charge of Jordan in July 2026. ^{1 2 3 4}

As a player, Zaki represented AS Salé, Wydad Casablanca, Mallorca in Spain and FUS Rabat across a 17-year professional career. He signed for Mallorca in 1986 after France Football named him African Footballer of the Year, and he helped the club win promotion to La Liga in 1989. With Morocco he played at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where his country became the first African team to reach the round of 16, and he also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics; the RSSSF list cited by the article credits him with 76 caps. In 2006 the Confederation of African Football selected him as one of the best 200 African footballers of the previous fifty years. ¹

Zaki retired in 1993 and immediately became a manager, coaching a long list of Moroccan and Algerian clubs, among them his former sides FUS Rabat and Wydad. He was appointed head coach of Morocco in 2002 and took the team to the final of the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia, lost 2–1 to the hosts, leaving in 2005 and returning for a second spell from May 2014 to February 2016. He later coached Sudan (2023) and Niger (2023–2026), and on 19 July 2026 the Jordanian Football Association appointed him head coach of Jordan. ^{1 2}

None of the English, Arabic or French articles says anything about Zaki's religion: there is no religion field in any infobox, no statement in any text, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him. The record is complete absence. ^{1 2 3 4}