Ahmed Alaaeldin Abdelmotaal (

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: أحمد علاء الدين عبد المتعال; born 31 January 1993), simply known as Ahmed Alaaeldin or Alaa, is a professional footballer who plays for Al-Arabi, on loan from Al-Gharafa. Born in Egypt, he plays for the Qatar national team.

Personal

Alaaeldin arrived in Qatar when he was 10 years old. His father, an Egyptian civil engineer, brought his family to Qatar in 2003.

Club career

Alaaeldin began his professional career with Al-Rayyan SC in 2010. In July 2017, he joined Al-Gharafa SC. He scored in the 2011

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game against

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International career

Alaaeldin has played for the Qatar Olympic football team in the GGC U23 tournament in August 2011. He was also at the

2016 AFC U-23 Championship The 2016 AFC U-23 Championship (also known as the 2016 AFC U-23 Asian Cup) was the second edition of the AFC U-23 Championship, the biennial international age-restricted association football, football championship organised by the Asian Football ...

and was the top goal scorer with 6 goals during the competition.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Qatar's goal tally first.''

Honours

.Al-Rayyan * Qatari Stars League: 2015–16 *

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

* Qatari Sheikh Jassim Cup:

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Al-Gharafa *

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: 2017–18, 2018–19 Qatar *

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Individual * AFC U-23 Championship top goalscorer:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

References

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* * 1993 births Living people Qatari men's footballers 21st-century Qatari sportsmen Men's association football forwards Naturalized citizens of Qatar Al-Rayyan SC players Al-Gharafa SC players Al-Arabi SC (Qatar) players Qatar Stars League players Qatari Second Division players 2019 AFC Asian Cup players 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Qatari people of Egyptian descent AFC Asian Cup–winning players Qatar men's international footballers 2022 FIFA World Cup players Naturalised association football players 2023 AFC Asian Cup players {{Qatar-footy-forward-stub