Ashad Ali (born 14 September 1986), nicknamed Adey or Adubarey, is a Maldivian
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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for Club Valencia. He was a member of the
Maldives national football team
The Maldives national football team (Maldivian language, Dhivehi: ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭ ގައުމީ ފުޓްބޯލް ޓީމް) represents the Maldives in international association football, football and is controlled by the Football Associat ...
.
Club career
Ashad started his career at Victory Sports Club. He later joined
VB Sports Club
AT Sports Club is a Maldivian professional football club based in Malé. VB Addu FC is the former VB Sports club, which was re-branded on 14 January 2012.BG Sports Club
In 2018, he signed a one-year deal with
Club Green Streets
Club Green Streets is a professional football club based in Malé, Maldives that competes in the Dhivehi Premier League, the top flight of Maldivian football. The club was founded in 2010, starting in the third division, and earned promotion to ...
.
International career
International goals
:''Scores and results list the Maldives' goal tally first.''
Penalty feinting incident
Adey gained global notability after simulating a fall prior to the run up of a penalty shootout in the third place match of the
2014 AFC Challenge Cup
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against
Afghanistan
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, deceiving goalkeeper
Mansur Faqiryar
Mansur Faqiryar (born 3 January 1986) is an Afghan former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for clubs in Germany and represented the Afghanistan national team at international level.
Club career
In 2005, Faqiryar signed for amat ...
. The match was won 7–8 to the
Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, abou ...
.
A similar move was pulled off by
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller (; born 13 September 1989) is a German professional Association football, footballer who plays for club FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. Widely regarded as one o ...
later that year during the
2014 FIFA World Cup
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(
Germany
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v
Algeria
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). In the 88th minute,
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller (; born 13 September 1989) is a German professional Association football, footballer who plays for club FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich. He primarily plays as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. Widely regarded as one o ...
deceptively stumbled while lining up the kick, before getting up and running through the Algerian wall. A few days later, Müller admitted to a German TV reporter that the free kick was a designed play.