Haidar Al-Shaïbani (born March 31, 1984) is a Canadian

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coach and former player who works as a video analyst and goalkeeper coach at

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Career

Haidar Al-Shaïbani was born March 31, 1984, in Setif, Algeria.

University

Al-Shaibani played University soccer at

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from 2004 to 2007, where he was named

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first team All Star in four consecutive years (2004 to 2007). In 2007 Al-Shaibani was named OUA MVP and Canadian Inter-university Sport first team All-Canadian. In his four years with the Mustangs, he led them to three OUA championships, and two bronze medals at CIS National Championships.

Professional

He began his professional career in 2002 with London City in the Canadian Professional Soccer League. He featured in the 2003 Open Canada Cup final against

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, where they won the title 4–2 in a penalty shootout. In 2005, he received the CPSL Goalkeeper of the Year award. In 2006, he signed with division rivals

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. During his tenure with North York he helped clinch a postseason berth in 2007. In 2009, he went abroad to France to sign with

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. Al-Shaïbani made his debut for Nîmes on August 25, 2009, in a

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match against

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. He has also featured for the club in the

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International career

Haidar represented Canada at two

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2007 and

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2009. He back stopped Canada to its best performance in history at the Universiade in men's soccer with a fourth-place finish at the 2007 Games in Bangkok, Thailand . He earned his first call up for

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on 14 May 2010 for the friendly matches against

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and

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on 29 May 2010. He earned his first cap for Canada as a sub in the second half against Venezuela where he helped the team to a 1–1 tie. On September 4, 2010, Coach Stephen Hart, selected Al-Shaïbani for the Friendly games in Toronto and Montreal, against

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September 4, 2010, and

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September 7, 2010.

Managerial career

In 2017, he was named the video analyst and goalkeeper coach for

AS Saint-Étienne Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), abbreviated as A.S.S.E. () and commonly known as Saint-Étienne, is a French professional football club based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The club was founded in 1933 and competes ...

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Personal life

Al-Shaïbani was born in

Sétif Sétif () is the capital city of the Sétif Province and the 5th most populous city of Algeria, with an estimated population of 1.866.845 in 2017). It is one of the most important cities of eastern Algeria and the country as a whole, since it is c ...

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to an Iraqi father and a Ukrainian mother. His family moved to Canada in 1998.

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