[1] Habib Draoua was born in Mdina Jdida in the city of Oran in 1914.

Very young, he joined USM Oran which was then the greatest Algerian Muslim club, where he did all his youth classes.

In 1937 he joined Le Havre AC, he remained in France until 1945 and the end of the Second World War.

In 1945, he joined Tunisia as a coach-player at ES Tunis before being transferred to the CS Hammam Lif where he won two Tunisian Cups in 1951 and 1954.

He stopped his football career in 1950, after winning two Tunisian championship titles in 1957 and in 1960 with the Stade Tunisien.