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
2006–2008 Catalans Dragons 21 11 0 0 44
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2008–2013 France 2 0 0 0 0
2009 Morocco 1 1 0 0 4

Younes Khattabi (born 28 March 1984 in Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan rugby league player currently playing for Carpentras 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.

Khattabi represented Morocco in a 2009 RLEF Euro Med Challenge match against Catalonia. He scored 1 try in the 29-6 win.

Khattabi represented France in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup

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