Back to the game! Former French football team striker Wissam Ben Yedder, facing legal cases linked to sexual violence, signed a six-month contract with Wydad Casablanca, with an option to extend for one season.
“Wydad welcomes its new player to the team, and expresses its full confidence in the fact that Wissam Ben Yedder will bring added value to the group,” the Casablanca club announced Tuesday evening on the social network
Aged 35, Wissam Ben Yedder played futsal before emerging in Toulouse (2010-2016). He then played in Monaco from 2019 to 2024, before signing in April 2025 with Sepahan SC, in Iran, then in September of the same year with Sakaryaspor, in the Turkish second division.
Indicted with his brother in 2023
For several years, the former international (19 caps, 3 goals) has been the target of several legal proceedings. In November, he was referred to the criminal court of Alpes-Maritimes, in southeastern France, for “rape, attempted rape and sexual assault.”
He and his brother Sabri were indicted in 2023, after accusations that they dispute from two young women, aged 18 and 19 at the time of the facts.
At the beginning of September, he was sentenced by the Nice Criminal Court to a fine of 90,000 euros for psychological violence against his wife, with whom he is in the process of divorcing.
After a conviction in Spain for tax evasion when he played in Seville (2016-2019), he was tried in the fall of 2024 for sexual violence against a young woman during an alcoholic night a few months earlier. Sentenced to two years in prison, he appealed.
