Hassan Kachloul (Arabic: حسان كشلول) (born 19 February 1973 in Agadir) is a Moroccan football player. He played for the Moroccan national team and was a squad member at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
Although born in Morocco, he was raised in Belleville in France. He therefore spent his early career in French football, with Nîmes Olympique, before signing for FC Metz, who loaned him to USL Dunkerque and AS Saint-Étienne respectively.
After being released by his parent club FC Metz at his own request, he spent a spell searching for a new club before moving to England, joining top flight Southampton in October 1998. He remained at The Dell until June 2001 when he eventually joined Aston Villa after his contract expired. He had originally made a verbal agreement to join Ipswich Town[1], but changed his mind at the last minute to head to Villa Park.
Kachloul was signed by John Gregory and played almost all his games for the club under him. After Gregory resigned in January 2002, he was frozen out by, firstly, Graham Taylor, and later David O'Leary.
The midfielder left Aston Villa in July 2004, after failing to appear for the club in the 2003/04 season. He had spent five months on loan at fellow Premier League side Wolves during the campaign, but had only managed 4 games, after suffering injury and illness.
After a spell as a free agent, he joined Livingston, where he helped the club avoid relegation, scoring with his first touch, a free-kick against Dunfermline. His time at Livingston was somewhat overshadowed due to the suspicious circumstances of his transfer.
As he had joined as a free agent, and was signed outside the transfer window, he played under 'amateur' status. However, this was found to be unsound as he was discovered to be receiving an income from Livingston. The SPL ruled that as the player could have been signed as a professional and there had been no need to sign him as an amateur on March 31, 2005[2]. Livingston argued that they had gained no competitive advantage from this situation, and as a result demands for a points deduction were not followed and the club were just fined £15,000.[3]
After leaving Livingston, he had a trial at Derby County in late 2005, but was not signed and remains without a club.
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