Saria Fouad Al Sayegh ( ar, سارية فؤاد الصايغ; born 28 August 1985) is a Lebanese former

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and

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player who is president of Lebanese club

Stars Association for Sports Stars Association for Sports ( ar, جمعية نجوم الرياضة), or simply SAS, is a women's football club section of the similarly-named sports academy, based in Aley, Lebanon. Founded in 2011 as Stars Academy for Sports, they have compe ...

(SAS). Al Sayegh represented Lebanon internationally as a

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in both football and

Club career

Al Sayegh played for

Sadaka or Sadqah ( ar, صدقة , "charity", "benevolence", plural ' ) in the modern context has come to signify "voluntary charity". According to the Quran, the word means voluntary offering, whose amount is at the will of the "benefactor". Etymo ...

in the

Lebanese Women's Football League The Lebanese Women's Football League ( ar, الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم للسيدات) is the only league of women's football in Lebanon. It is run by the Lebanese Football Association and began in May 2008, with six teams ...

between 2008 and 2014, winning the league title six times and the domestic cup five times. Between 2008 and 2010, she suffered an

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, keeping her unavailable for play. She then established

(SAS) in 2014.

International career

Al Sayegh has been capped for Lebanon at senior level in both football and

. In football, she represented

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

at the

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in 2013, where she played three games and scored two goals against

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the no ...

. In futsal, Al Sayegh played for

at the 2008 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Al Sayegh goal''.

Honours

Lebanon *

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third place:

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References

External links

* * 1985 births Living people People from Aley District Lebanese women's footballers Lebanese women's futsal players Women's association football forwards Lebanon women's international footballers Lebanese Women's Football League players Sadaka SC women's footballers Stars Association for Sports players {{Lebanon-women-footy-bio-stub