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Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
Mohannad Abdul-Raheem Karrar (; born 22 September 1993), is an Iraqi Association football, footballer who plays as a striker for Iraq Stars League club Al-Minaa SC, Al-Minaa and the Iraq national football team, Iraq national team. An Olympian, Mohannad is the 2012 Asian Young Footballer of the Year, and the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship's MVP. Club career Early career From a young age, the childhood Al-Zawraa supporter and son of a tribal Sheikh would spend his free time on the concrete pitches in his local neighbourhood kicking a ball with friends. It was his late uncle Razzaq who encouraged him to take up the game and coached him with his first shaabiya teams at Najoum Al-Mualameen and Iskan Al-Shaabi, the two main football teams in his local area between Iskan and Mualameen where both sides wanted the talented youngster in their team. Abdul-Raheem had trials with a local club Khutout under Ismail Saleem however he was overlooked and instead started in the Al-Karkh SC, Al-Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baghdad
Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the Arab world, most populous cities in the Middle East and Arab world and forms 22% of the Demographics of Iraq, country's population. Spanning an area of approximately , Baghdad is the capital of its Baghdad Governorate, governorate and serves as Iraq's political, economic, and cultural hub. Founded in 762 AD by Al-Mansur, Baghdad was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and became its most notable development project. The city evolved into a cultural and intellectual center of the Muslim world. This, in addition to housing several key academic institutions, including the House of Wisdom, as well as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious environment, garnered it a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning". For much of the Abbasid era, duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 AFC U-19 Championship
The 2012 AFC U-19 Championship is the 37th edition of the tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation. The AFC approved UAE as hosts of the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship on 23 November 2011.AFC to put best foot forward The AFC. 2011-11-23. Retrieved on 2011-11-23. The top four teams will qualify directly to the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup hosted by . Hosts The Organising Committee announced that Bangladesh, Iran, Palestine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan had expressed an interest to host the finals. The decision of the Committee, the member asso ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UAE Pro-League
The UAE Pro League (), also known as the ADNOC Pro League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the highest level of the Emirati football league system. The first team to win the title was Al Orouba (Sharjah), whilst Al Ain has the record with 14 league titles to their name. Fourteen clubs compete in the league that operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the First Division League. The League was founded in 1973 as the UAE Football League. The first 1973–74 season was a "trial" championship but was declared official by the UAE FA in 2001. In February 2007, the Pro League Committee was formed, and became the organising body of the league. Name change Starting from the 2006–07 season the name was changed from UAE League to Etisalat League. And since the 2013–14 season, the name was changed from Etisalat Pro League to Arabian Gulf League, which was named after the Arabian Gulf as per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Talaba
Al-Talaba Sports Club () is an Iraqi professional sports club based in Al-Rusafa, Baghdad. Its football team competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top flight of Iraqi football. Founded in 1969, the club was named Al-Jamiea but became known as Al-Talaba ahead of the 1978–79 season after being merged with a new club of the same name. Their home stadium is Al-Talaba Stadium. Al-Talaba are one of Iraq's most successful teams having won five league titles, most recently in the 2001–02 season. They have also achieved two FA Cups, one Super Cup and a joint-record three Baghdad Championships. The club's best achievements on the continental stage include finishing fourth at the 1986 Asian Club Championship and finishing second and fourth at the 1995 and 1998–99 editions of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup respectively. The club was owned by the National Union of Iraqi Students until 1993, when the club was attached to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fahad Talib
Fahad Talib Raheem (; born 21 October 1994) is an Iraqi professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Iraqi stars league club Al Talaba and the Iraq national team. Club career Youth career The Goalkeeper has never played for any local team, but went straight into the Al Quwa Al-Jawiya’s youth system in his early teens and broke into the first team aged just 16 in 2011-12. Fahad followed in his father Talib Rahim and elder brother Ali’s footsteps when he joined the Blue Falcons. Growing up he would sit on the sidelines listening attentively to his father’s advice to Ali. Fahad was supervised by the goalkeeping coach Hashim Khamis, the ex-Iraq and Al-Jawiya goalkeeper, maintaining that the man the Al-Jawiya supporters knew as Al-Tayara (“The Airplane”) had been instrumental in his development, with the Jawiya faithful granting the old nickname of his mentor to their new keeper. Al Quwa Al Jawiya At the start of 2014–2015 season Fahad was regarded as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Oumari
Joan Noureddine Oumari (, ; born 19 August 1988) is a former professional Association football, footballer who played as a centre-back. After playing for eight seasons in Germany, between the Berlin-Liga, fifth and 2. Bundesliga, second division, Oumari moved to Turkish side Sivasspor in 2016. In 2017, he signed for UAE Pro-League club Al-Nasr Dubai SC, Al-Nasr, before moving on a six-month loan to Japanese side Sagan Tosu the following season. After returning to Al-Nasr for one year, Oumari moved back to Japan in 2019, playing for Vissel Kobe, FC Tokyo and Sagan Tosu. Born in Germany, Oumari represented Lebanon national football team, Lebanon internationally between 2013 and 2022. He took part in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, Lebanon's first participation in the competition through qualification. Early life Oumari was born on 19 August 1988 in Berlin, Germany, to Kurds in Lebanon, Lebanese Kurds from Beirut. Oumari's parents emigrated from Lebanon to Germany in 1980 due to the Leb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderley Santos Monteiro Júnior
Wanderley Santos Monteiro Júnior, or simply Wanderley (born October 11, 1988), is a Brazilian forward who plays for Paranavaí. Career Ponte Preta Wanderley came through the youth ranks with Ponte Preta, and was called up to the senior squad for the 2006 Campeonato Paulista season. His performances in the tournament, scoring a total of three goals, second most in the team, earned him a new contract with the club. Despite being reassigned to the youth department, he still made 11 substitute appearances in 2006 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, including a debut in the 3–2 win over Corinthians on 30 April 2006. In the 2008 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B he scored three goals in the first two months of the competition, causing Cruzeiro to show an interest and sign him on a three-year contract in July 2008, paying a fee to buy out the last year of his Ponte Preta contract. He finished his Ponte Preta career with 15 goals in 96 games in all competitions. Cruzeiro Wanderley was us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Quwa Al Jawiya
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya () is an Iraqi sports club based in Rusafa District, Baghdad that competes in the Iraq Stars League, the top-flight of Iraqi football. Founded in 1931, it is the oldest existing club in Iraq. Its football team is one of the most successful in Iraq, having won seven Iraq Stars League titles, most recently in the 2020–21 season, while they won their sixth Iraq FA Cup title in 2023. The club also won a joint-record three Baghdad Championships as well as two Iraqi Super Cups, and in the 1996–97 season became the first of only two clubs to win all four major national trophies in the same season. On the continental level, Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya are joint-record winners of the AFC Cup (now known as AFC Champions League Two), Asia's second-tier club competition, having become the first club to win three consecutive titles in 2016, 2017 and 2018. They have also participated in the group stage of the AFC Champions League on six occasions. History On 4 July 1931, 73 day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Ebossé Bodjongo
Albert Dominique Ebossé Bodjongo Dika (6 October 1989 – 23 August 2014) was a Cameroonian association football, footballer who played in Cameroon, Malaysia and Algeria. Career Bodjongo played with his hometown club Douala Athletic Club, a club in MTN Group, MTN Elite Two, Cameroon's National Second Division. He also played for Coton Sport FC de Garoua, Coton Sport FC and Unisport Bafang in Cameroon. He was signed by Malaysian club Perak FA on 15 April 2012 as a replacement for outgoing striker Lazar Popović. He made his league debut for Perak in a 2–2 draw with Sabah FA on 17 April 2012 and scored his first goal for the club in a 2–2 draw with Terengganu FA on 4 May 2012. In July 2013, Bodjongo signed for JS Kabylie (JSK). He was the top scorer of the Algerian Championship in 2014 with 17 goals. Bodjongo reportedly had six caps with the Cameroon national football team (mainly with the 'B' team), and had also played for the Cameroon national under-20 football team, unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne (), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional association football, football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are black and white. Their home stadium, the 8 May 1945 Stadium, has a capacity of 18,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. ESS is one of the most successful clubs in Algeria, having won the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 eight times and the Algerian Cup a record of eight times. They are also one of only three Algerian clubs to have won the CAF Champions League, winning it twice in 1988 African Cup of Champions Clubs, 1988 and 2014 CAF Champions League, 2014. They have also won the Arab Champions League twice, in 2006–07 Arab Champions League, 2007 and 2007–08 Arab Champions League, 2008, as well as three North African Cups in 2009 and 2010. In 2015, they became the first Algerian club to wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MC El Eulma
Mouloudia Chabab El Eulma (), () known as MC El Eulma or simply MCEE for short, is an Algerian football club based in El Eulma. The club was founded in 1936 and its colors are green and red. Their home stadium, Messaoud Zeghar Stadium, has a capacity of some 25,000 spectators. The club is currently playing in the Inter-Régions Division. History Colonial and founding of the MCSA A group of Muslims decided to create a Muslim club in the city and to impose the Algerian nationalist colors as the club color. The pre-meeting was held on the side of Boulenouar bakery, and participating members are Bahlouli Brahim, Belkacem Bouanan, Belfadhel Mohamed Ettaher Youcef El Okbi Bashir and Mohamed Jafar, most of which were playing DSA. Bahlouli Brahim was the first president of the club. From 1942, a second formation called the '' 'Olympic Muslim Saint-Arnaud' '' ('' '' 'WOAH' '' '') was formally established by activists (i.e. FADLI.S, GUESSAB.K, HABBICHE.H, LAKHAL.H, MEKIDECHE A, Bahloul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer Iraq
Soccer Iraq is an English-language Iraqi website and social media agency providing a variety of news, statistics and services for Iraqi football, ranging from coverage on the Iraq national football team and its players to news on the Iraq Stars League. On 17 May 2021, Soccer Iraq partnered with Al-Shorta Sports Club to manage the club's official English-language social media profiles. On 17 May 2023, Soccer Iraq reached an agreement with the Iraq Football Association (IFA) to launch and administer new social media channels for the Iraq national football team in English. History Soccer Iraq launched on 11 March 2015 with the aim of creating an English-based website covering Iraq's national football team, the ''Lions of Mesopotamia'', as well as the domestic club competitions and the nation's foreign-based players. In 2017, Soccer Iraq assisted the Iraq Football Association (IFA) in the process of verifying the IFA's official social media profiles. In 2020, Soccer Iraq helped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
