Abdul Rahman Weiss (; ; born 14 June 1998), also known as Abdul Rahman Oues (), is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Born in Greece, he represents the Syria national team. Weiss is a product of the Panathinaikos and

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and came to prominence at

Platanias Platanias (Greek: Πλατανιάς) is a village and municipality on the Greek island of Crete. It is located about west from the city of Chania and east of Kissamos, on Chania Bay. The seat of the municipality is the village Gerani. Platani ...

. Following more than three years as a professional at the club, he later played for Greek clubs OFI,

Volos Volos (; ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the capital of the Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia regional unit of the Thessaly Region. Volos ...

Athens Kallithea Athens Kallithea Football Club is a Greek professional football club based in Kallithea, a city and a suburb in Athens. The club currently competes in the Super League 2, the second tier of the Greek football league system. The club has finishe ...

and Kalamata. Weiss was capped by Greece at U21 level and Syria at full international level.

Club career

Youth years

, Weiss began his career in the

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at Panathinaikos and spent the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons with Brentford Griffins, a community youth team of English club

. He won two

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U19 Alliance titles with the team.

Platanias

In 2015, Weiss returned to

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to join the academy at

and progressed to sign a professional contract in February 2017. He was an unused substitute during a late- 2016–17 season

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match and broke into the team during the 2017–18 relegation season, in which he made 17 appearances. Weiss made 29 appearances and scored one goal during the 2018–19 season and was a part of the team which reached the

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promotion playoffs. He was nominated for the Best Young Player award at the 2018–19 Football League Awards. During a 2019–20 season affected by

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and the

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, Weiss made 16 appearances and scored one goal, before departing the club on 1 July 2020. He made 62 appearances and scored two goals during four years as a professional at the

Perivolia Municipal Stadium Perivolia Municipal Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Mournies, Chania, Greece. From the 2012-2013 season, Platanias FC were based at Perivolia Municipal Stadium, which led to extensive upgrading and modernization work at all levels dur ...

OFI

On 8 January 2020, it was announced that Weiss had signed a pre-contract to join Super League club OFI on a four-year contract on 1 July 2020. During a

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season in which OFI narrowly avoided relegation, he made 34 appearances. During an injury-hit 2021–22 season, Weiss made 12 appearances and departed the club in August 2022. Weiss made 46 appearances during years at the

Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium (), commonly referred to by its nickname, Yedi Kule, is a football stadium located in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. It was built in 1951 as the home ground of OFI Crete. The nickname "Yedi Kule" refers to the his ...

Volos

On 18 August 2022, Weiss signed a two-year contract with Super League club

. He made 14 appearances prior to his contract being terminated by mutual consent on 19 January 2023.

Athens Kallithea

On 20 January 2023, Weiss signed an 18-month contract with

club

. He made 10 appearances and scored one goal during the remainder of a

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season in which the club narrowly missed promotion to the Super League. Weiss made just seven appearances during the first half of the 2023–24 season, before transferring to

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club Nassaji Mazandaran in February 2024. Ultimately the transfer "could not be concluded due to procedural issues" and Weiss remained with Athens Kallithea. He made five appearances during the club's successful promotion playoff campaign and ended the 2023–24 season with 12 appearances in all competitions. Weiss was released when his contract expired and he ended his 18 months at the Grigoris Lamprakis Stadium with 23 appearances and one goal.

Kalamata

On 3 July 2024, Weiss signed a two-year contract with Super League Greece 2 club

on a free transfer. He made 25 appearances during a 2024–25 season in which the club narrowly missed promotion to the Super League Greece.

International career

Weiss won five caps for the Greece U21 team and was part of the squad which failed to

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for the 2021 UEFA European U21 Championship. He made his full international debut for

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

with starts in a pair of 2022 World Cup AFC third round qualifiers in September 2021. Weiss was a part of the Syria squad which

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for the

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and he started in each match during the team's run to the round-of-16.

Personal life

Weiss is of

n descent. In August 2019, he undertook military service.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Athens Kallithea *

South promotion play-offs:

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References

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Abdul Rahman Weiss
at sfa.sy {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, Abdul Rahman 1998 births Living people Footballers from Athens Greek men's footballers Syrian men's footballers 21st-century Syrian sportsmen Syrian expatriate men's footballers Syria men's international footballers Syrian expatriate sportspeople in Greece Greece men's under-21 international footballers Greek people of Syrian descent Men's association football fullbacks Greek expatriate men's footballers Greek expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in England Super League Greece players Platanias F.C. players Football League (Greece) players OFI Crete F.C. players Volos F.C. players Athens Kallithea F.C. players 2023 AFC Asian Cup players F.C. Nassaji Mazandaran players Greek expatriate sportspeople in Iran Expatriate men's footballers in Iran Syrian expatriate sportspeople in Iran Kalamata F.C. players 21st-century Greek sportsmen