Ali Benarbia is a familiar figure to football fans, including supporters of Manchester City in the English Premier League. The Algerian international was one of the best attacking midfielders in France's top flight of football, Ligue 1, in the 1990s. He won the league title with Monaco and then Bordeaux, before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 1999 and then Manchester City two years later. He went on to spend three lucrative years between 2003 and 2006 in Qatar before retiring from playing at the age of 37.
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