Noureddine Naybet

Noureddine Naybet is a Moroccan former footballer, born in Casablanca on 10 February 1970. A centre-back considered one of the best defenders in La Liga of his generation, he won league and cup honours in Spain with Deportivo La Coruña and earned 115 caps for Morocco. ^{1 2 3 4}

Naybet began his professional career at Wydad Casablanca, in his home city, being part of the squads that won three Botola championships as well as the 1992 African Cup of Champions Clubs. He then played for Nantes in France and Sporting CP in Portugal before joining Deportivo La Coruña in 1996. The eight seasons that followed were the longest and most successful period of his career: Deportivo won the first league title in its history in 1999–2000, with Naybet an undisputed starter, and added the Copa del Rey in 2002 and two Spanish Super Cups, reaching the Champions League semi-finals in 2004. He finished his career at Tottenham Hotspur in England, retiring in 2006. ¹

For Morocco he played from 1990 to 2006, appeared at the 1992 Olympics with the under-23 side, and played all six matches of the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, where Morocco finished second. In August 2007 he was named assistant manager of the national team under Henri Michel. ^{1 2}

The record for Naybet's religion is thin and generic. Wikidata gives only Islam, the English and Arabic articles file him under "Moroccan Muslims" categories, and the Arabic article's infobox carries a religion field and leaves it empty; no source names a school or affiliation for him personally, so the museum records his faith as unknown. ^{1 2 4}