Imad Khaled Ashur (; born 19 April 1988) is a Ukrainian professional

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manager.

Biography

Ashur was born in

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to parents from

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. During his footballer career, Ashur played for the Armenian diaspora club

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as well as several Odesa-based amateur level clubs Evolution, Soborka, Real, Atletik. In 2009 he graduated the

Odesa University The Odesa I.I.Mechnykov National University (), often referred to as Odesa National University ( ONU, ), located in Odesa, Ukraine, is one of that country's major state-sponsored universities, named after the scientist Élie Metchnikoff (1845- ...

. Also, Ashur holds a UEFA A coaching license. His coaching career Ashur started at children football club "Krok" from

. In 2017–2019 he was a coach at the Chornomorets football academy (SDYuShOR). For short while he travelled abroad to

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and later returned to Ukraine joining the

SC Dnipro-1 SC Dnipro-1 () was a professional Ukrainian football club from Dnipro. While not officially a successor of FC Dnipro, SC Dnipro-1 took over all of the infrastructure of the former club including its academy. Founded in November 2015, SC Dnipr ...

coaching staff. Since 2023, Ashur has been involved in coaching the Ukraine junior national football teams. On 26 May 2024, it was announced that Imad Ashur was appointed the manager of the UPL club Polissya. Ashur was honored as the UPL best coach of the month for September 2004. On 12 May 2025, he was fired from the post of the Polissya head coach.

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who was an assistant coach of Polissya under-19 team placed temporarily to perform his duties of head coach.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashur, Imad 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Odesa Ukrainian men's footballers Homenetmen Beirut (football) players FC Real Odesa players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Lebanon Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Lebanon Ukrainian football managers FC Polissya Zhytomyr managers Ukrainian Premier League managers Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar FC Chornomorets Odesa non-playing staff SC Dnipro-1 non-playing staff Ukrainian people of Lebanese descent