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. He played his first senior match at the age of 20 in 1934. In 1937 he joined
Le Havre, 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. In 1957, he participated for the creation of the Algerian National Liberation Army football team
(ALN Football Team) which resulted a year later in the creation of the
FLN football team. He prepared tours, such as those of
Syria,
Iraq and
Jordan. He was a national manager of
Tunisia national team from 1957 to 1960. He was thanked and honored in 1960 with a "Silver Medal" by the
Tunisian Football Federation and the Ministry of Sports of Tunisia for the services rendered to Tunisian football. He returned to Algeria after independence in 1962, and coached the two greatest clubs of the city of Oran,
MC Oran and
ASM Oran during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. ==Honours==