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Akbar Raisani
Muhammad Akbar Raisani (Urdu: ; born 1953) is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a defender. Akbar is among the major players of the Pakistan national football team in the 1980s, and served as captain of the national side in 1981-82. Early life Raisani was born in 1953 in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province of Pakistan. Club career Raisani started his career with Baloch Quetta, and later joined departmental side Ordnance Depot Quetta. In 1972, Raisani featured in the National Youth Football Championship. In 1977, he joined National Football Championship departmental side National Bank. International career Raisani was first selected for Pakistan in 1976 and played in the Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup and the 1976 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament the same year. In 1981, after the team did a goodwill tour to Burma, Raisani served as captain of the Pakistan national team at the 1981 King's Cup in Thailand. Under his captaincy, the team a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defender (association Football)
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers, and wing-backs. The centre-back and full-back positions are most common in modern formations. The sweeper and wing-back roles are more specialised, often limited to certain formations dependent on the manager's style of play and tactics. Centre-back The centre-back (also known as a central defender or centre-half, as the modern role of the centre-back arose from the centre-half position) defends in the area directly in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players, particularly centre-forwards, from scoring. Centre-backs accomplish this by blocking shots, tackling, intercepting passes, contesting headers and marking forwards to discourage the opposing team from passing to them. Centre-backs are often tall and positioned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaysia National Football Team
The Malaysia national football team () represents Malaysia in international association football, football and is governed by the Football Association of Malaysia. The national team is recognised by FIFA as the successor of the defunct Malaya national football team which was founded for the Merdeka Tournament, 1963 Merdeka Tournament one month before the institution of Malaysia. The team is officially nicknamed ''Harimau Malaya'' in reference to the Malayan Tiger. Former player Mokhtar Dahari is one of the top goal scorers in international history. Before Malaysia’s formation, the Malaya national football team had already achieved notable success, including a Football at the 1962 Asian Games, bronze medal at the 1962 Asian Games. Malaysia's most significant achievements include Football at the 1972 Summer Olympics, qualifying for the 1972 Summer Olympics, winning the AFF Championship in 2010 AFF Championship, 2010, and earning multiple SEA Games gold medals in 1961 SEAP Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baloch FC Quetta Players
Baloch, also spelled Baloch, Beluch and in other ways, may refer to: Ethnic groups * Baloch people, an ethnic group of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan * Baluch, a small itinerant community of Afghanistan, also known as Baloch Other uses * ''Baloch'' (film), a 2023 Indian film * Baloch (surname), including a list of people with the name * Balouch, Azad Kashmir, a town in Pakistan, also spelt Baloch See also * Balloch (other) * Baloch F.C. (other) * Balochi (other) * Balochistan (other) * Baluchi (other) * Bloch Bloch is a surname of German origin. Notable people with this surname include: A *Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925), Austrian entrepreneur *Albert Bloch (1882–1961), American painter *Alexandre Bloch (1857–1919), French painter *Alfred Bloch ( ... {{disambiguation, geo Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Men's International Footballers
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country#Countries, second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is List of cities in Pakistan by population, its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 33rd-largest country by area. Bounded by the Arabian Sea on the south, the Gulf of Oman on the southwest, and the Sir Creek on the southeast, it shares land borders with India to the east; Afghanistan to the west; Iran to the southwest; and China to the northeast. It shares a maritime border with Oman in the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan in the northwest by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor. Pakistan is the site of History of Pakistan, several ancient cultures, including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani Men's Footballers
Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam. A majority of around 97% of Pakistanis are Muslims. The majority of Pakistanis natively speak languages belonging to the Indo-Iranic family ( Indo-Aryan and Iranic subfamilies). Located in South Asia, the country is also the source of a significantly large diaspora, most of whom reside in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, with an estimated population of 4.7 million. The second-largest Pakistani diaspora resides throughout both Northwestern Europe and Western Europe, where there are an estimated 2.4 million; over half of this figure resides in the United Kingdom (see British Pakistanis). Ethnic subgroups Ethnically, Indo-Aryan peoples comprise the majority of the population in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into '' I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Pakistan National Football Team Captains
This article lists all the captains of the Pakistan national football team. The first captain to lead Pakistan national football team, Pakistan in their international debut in October 1950 was the Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper Osman Jan, who captained Pakistan in their first international match against Iran national football team, Iran on 27 October 1950. The following table includes players who have captained the Pakistan national football team, along with the vice-captains and the international tournaments they led in. List of captains Captains by major tournaments * ''In Continental and International tournaments'' References Bibliography * {{Football in Pakistan Pakistan men's international footballers, Lists of association football captains, Pakistan captains Association football player non-biographical articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Football Federation
The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) is the national governing body of association football in Football in Pakistan, Pakistan. It is a member of FIFA, the international governing body of Association football, football, and affiliated to the Asian Football Confederation and South Asian Football Federation. The federation was founded in 1947; it also manages the futsal and beach soccer national teams. History Upon Pakistan's Independence of Pakistan, independence in 1947, both East Pakistan, East and West Pakistan, West wings of the country inherited the football infrastructure of the British Raj. The need for establishing a nationwide football association to govern the game properly was urgent, since India had inherited the erstwhile Calcutta-based Indian Football Association and the All India Football Federation, All-India Football Federation (AIFF). Thus, on 5 December 1947 the Pakistan Football Federation was created. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor-General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karachi
Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the Geography of Pakistan, southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast and formerly served as the Federal Capital Territory (Karachi), country's capital from 1947 to 1959. Ranked as a Global city, beta-global city, it is Pakistan's premier industrial and financial centre, with an estimated GDP of over $200 billion (Purchasing power parity, PPP) . Karachi is a metropolitan city and is considered Pakistan's most cosmopolitan city, and among the country's most linguistically, ethnically, and religiously diverse regions, as well as one of the country's most progressive and socially liberal cities. The region has been inhabited for millennia, but the city was formally founded as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament
The 1982 Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament was the second edition of the Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament. The event was held at the National Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan. Venue Squads :SourceRSSSF Bangladesh Head coach: Abdul Gafur Baloch Iran Head coach: Nasser Ebrahimi Nepal Head coach: Zeng Shi Chui Oman Head coach: Moncef Melliti Pakistan Greens Head coach: Younus Rana Pakistan Blues Head coach: Murad Bakhsh Shandong Head coach: Li Zhongwei Results Matches ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Statistics Goalscorers Awards References {{Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament Quaid-e-Azam International Cup 1982 Memorials to Muhammad Ali Jinnah 1982 in Pakistani sport 1982 in Asian footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
