Salah Falah () was a Lebanese
football
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player, coach, and
referee
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. Falah played as a
midfielder
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for the
Lebanon national team in their
first official international match.
Playing career
Falah played for
Hilmi-Sport,
DPHB
Association Sportive DPHB, known as Al Sikkat Al Hadid Wal Marfa' in Arabic (), was a multi-sports club based in Forn El Chebbak, a district in Beirut, Lebanon.
DPHB, which was the sports club of the Lebanese railways company, was mainly known ...
, and
Sagesse
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during the 1940s.
In 1934 the midfielder captained the
Lebanon national team in their first unofficial match, against Romanian club
CA Timișoara
Club Atletic Timișoara, known as CA Timișoara or simply CAT, was a football club from Timișoara. The team was founded in 1902 under the name Temesvári Football Club, later becoming Temesvári Atletikai Club, when the city was part of the Austr ...
(T.A.C.). Falah also represented Lebanon in their
first official international match, in 1940 against
Mandatory Palestine
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After ...
.
Managerial and referee career
In 1946–47 Falah coached Sagesse while a player.
He was a
referee
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during the 1960–61 season.
See also
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List of Lebanon international footballers born outside Lebanon
The Lebanon national football team has used footballers Lebanese diaspora, born outside Lebanon throughout its history with varying success. As a result of the dominance of clubs founded by the Armenian diaspora in Lebanon, between the 1940s a ...
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Men's association football midfielders
Lebanese men's footballers
Lebanese Premier League players
AS Hilmi-Sport players
AS DPHB players
Sagesse SC (football) players
Lebanon men's international footballers
Lebanese football managers
Lebanese Premier League managers
Sagesse SC (football) managers
Lebanese football referees
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