Issam Al-Edrissi ( ar, عصام الإدريسي; born 12 September 1984), commonly known as Issa Issa ( ar, عيسى عيسى), is a

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for German club VfB Frohnhausen. Born in Lebanon, Issa moved to Germany at an early age; he represented

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

internationally.

Club career

Issa began his career 1992 in Germany, at

Schwarz-Weiss Essen ''Schwarz Weiss'' (English: ''Black White'') is a studio album by Austrian recording artist Christina Stürmer. Compromising alterations of songs from her first two albums ''Freier Fall'' (2003) and ''Soll das wirklich alles sein?'' (2004), it wa ...

's youth side, before joining local rivals

FC Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhi ...

in 1994. Six years later, he was scouted by

Rot-Weiss Essen Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße. The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 19 ...

. Issa played in the U19s, and was promoted to the first team in the winter season. After his first professional season for

, Issa joined

Borussia Dortmund II Borussia Dortmund II are the reserve team of Borussia Dortmund. They play in the 3. Liga, at Stadion Rote Erde. Until 2005, the team played as Borussia Dortmund Amateure. History From Kreisliga to Oberliga (Until 1997) The second team of Borus ...

for €150,000. He scored six goals in 44 appearances for

in four years, before moving to

SV Lippstadt 08 SV Lippstadt is a German association football club from the city of Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia. __TOC__ History The two predecessors of the current-day club were both established in March 1908. ''Borussia Lippstadt'' was founded 24 Ma ...

in 2006, where he scored 25 goals in 78 games. In 2008, Issa signed for

Hammer SpVg Hammer SpVg is a German association football club from the city of Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is part of a larger sports club with some 1,500 members in departments for aikido, judo, cheerleading, fitness and dance, gymnastics, handbal ...

, where he scored four goals in 31 matches. He was released one year later, and signed for

SV Meppen SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. The club was founded on 29 November 1912 as ''Amisia Meppen'' and joined ''Männer-Turnverein Meppen'' on 8 February 1920 to form ''TuS Meppen 1912''. The football ...

after six months without a club, on 26 January 2010. After half a season, Issa signed in summer 2010 for

SG Wattenscheid 09 SG Wattenscheid 09 is a German association football club located in Wattenscheid, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club claimed an official founding date of 18 September 1909 as Ballspiel-Verein Wattenscheid out of the merger of two earlie ...

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International career

Issa represented the Lebanon national team at international level, playing three matches in 2004.

Personal life

Issa's younger brother Khaled currently plays for Rot-Weiss Essen U17, and presented formerly the youth of NK Croatia Essen and

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at FuPa {{DEFAULTSORT:Issa, Issa 1984 births Living people Footballers from Beirut Lebanese footballers German footballers German people of Lebanese descent Association football midfielders Regionalliga players Borussia Dortmund II players Oberliga (football) players SV Lippstadt 08 players Hammer SpVg players SV Meppen players SG Wattenscheid 09 players Sportfreunde Siegen players KFC Uerdingen 05 players 1. FC Bocholt players Lebanon international footballers