Biography

El Arbi Hillel Soudani

by Anjana Sharma,

El Arabi Hillel Soudani is an Algerian football player who has a position of striker and was born in November 25, 1987 in Chlef,Algeria.He is an Algerian Footballer who plays for Dinamo Zagreb and the Algeria national team. In 1998 Soudani joined the academy of ASO Chlef. At the beginning he was sent to the youngest squad of the academy. He had spent some time there before going to the other teams of the school. For eight years , Soudani was a outcome of this youth academy where he was prepared to initiate his football career for a professional level.Soudani is a forward of Dinamo Zagreb.

He got tied on a professional contract in 2006 when this young forward officially joined ASO Chlef .He started to get trained with the first team. Soudani brought the consideration of the head coach who determined to include the forward in the beginning eleven in different matches of the club. The footballer made a very good beginning. Yet he required time to collect the experience of playing football professionally which, thereby, encouraged him to get the starting XI position. With the tremendous hard work and commitment during training sessions he was successful in occupyinga place in the initial line-up. He had kicked 48 goals in 108 matches during the summer of 2011.The Portuguese side Vitoria Guimaraes made a proposal for the Algerian club ASO Chlef to buy the forward to their team in the summer of 2011. Shortly the parties came into the agreement about Soudani’s transfer to Vitoria in June of 2011. Soudani finished his deal with the Portuguese club. He made 37 appearances for his new club. He then moved to Dinamo Zagreb in the summer of 2013.From 2008 to 2011 Soudani started playing for the Algeria A’ national team where he appeared in 11 games and made 3 goals. For the first time in 2011, the forward was chosen to play for the Algerian national football team. Since 2011 he has been able to score 8 goals in 15 matches from the senior side.

Soudani, the professional football player has a height of 1.82 m and a Weight of 75 kg. Performing for his Nation and the other club his contract gets expired in 2017.His Current Team is GNK Dinamo Zagreb. Till now he has not yet displayed his Salary. He began his career in 2006.With the strong determination and hard-work, Soudani is able to make a remarkable place in the history of soccer. With the club, ASO Chlef he was succeeded to achieve the honour of Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1: 2011 and Taça de Portugal: 2013 award with the team, Vitoria Guimaraes.The club Dinamo Zagreb also got honored with Croatian Supercup: 2013.Individually, he was able to grab the award of DZFoot young player of the year : 2008,Top scorer of the 2011 African Nations Championship with 3 goals,Top scorer of the 2010–11 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with 18 goals.