Sarfraz Rasool (born July 10, 1975) is a former
Pakistan
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i international footballer who played as an
attacking midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Cent ...
.
Sarfraz won the Golden Boot at
2003 SAFF Championship, where he finished as the top-scorer with 4 goals, and was named
Asian Football Confederation
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Player of the Month for his performance in SAFF Cup held in March 2003.
Club career
As a goal scoring midfielder, Rasool had been playing for
KRL FC
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between 1999 and 2003, and was constantly in the goals for the national team.
However, he controversially left Pakistan soon after and moved to
England
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, which effectively ended his international career, but remained with KRL for some seasons, before eventually joining the renamed
PMC Club Athletico Faisalabad
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in August 2008.
International career
International statistics
International goals
References
External links
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1975 births
Living people
Pakistani men's footballers
Pakistan men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
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