Career
He was a pioneer of Algerian football playing in Tunisia and France in the 40s and 50s as well as establishing the first Algerian national team with two other FLN activists featuring ten players in France’s provisional World Cup squad on the eve of the finals in Sweden. One of those players was Ben Tifour himself, who had played for the French national team on four occasions including one appearance at the 1954 World Cup. He moved to Troyes Air Corps after six seasons with Nice in 1954 and then signed for AS Monaco in 1956, which would be his last club in Europe.
In total, he made 280 appearances in the French top division, scoring 62 goals.
He returned to Tunis in 1958 to form the FLN Algerian national team Players like Ben Tifour, Rachid Mekloufi and Mustapha Zitouni proved them wrong with wins over Yugoslavia and credible draws with Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
In the space of four years, Ben Tifour one of the founders behind the formation of the team would captain and later coach the team touring the world from the Far East to Eastern Europe. When Algeria was granted independence in 1962, the 33-year-old Ben Tifour unlike Mekloufi and Ahmed Oudjani who moved back to play in Europe, returned to his homeland to take up a player-coach role at Union Sportive Musulmane d"Alger leading them to the first Algerian championship in 1963.
Ben Tifour died at the age of only 43 while he was coach at Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie during the 1970–1971 season.
Espérance Sportive de Tunis (1945–1946)
Club Sportif de Hammam Lif (1946–1948)
Office of Government Commerce Nice (1948–1954)
Association Sportive Troyenne Savinienne (1954–1956)
AS Monaco (1956–1958)
FLN Equipe (1958–1962)
United States Military Academy, Union Sportive de la Medina d"Alger (1962–1963).