Ahmad Abdul-Jabar

Ahmad Abdul-Jabar

Personal information
Full name	Ahmad Abdul-Jabar Jassim
Date of birth	(1978-01-08) 8 January 1978
Place of birth	Iraq
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Zakho
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–2002	Al-Zawraa
2002–2004	Al-Shamal
2004–2006	Al-Zawraa
2006–2008	Al-Yarmouk
2008–2009	Duhok	20
2009–2010	Baghdad
2010–2011	Al-Zawraa
2011–	Zakho
International career‡
2000–	Iraq	27	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 July 2009

Ahmad Abdul-Jabar (Arabic: احمد عبدالجبار‎‎) (born 8 January 1978 in Iraq) is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Baghdad FC in Iraq and Iraq national football team player.

Ahmed, known as Al-Alemane ('The German') by his team-mates, due to his fair skin and hair. He bore a slight resemblance to Brazilian Juninho of Middlesbrough and Atletico Madrid.

The qualified engineer also had the diminutive Brazilian's same penchant for taking on defenders with mazey runs and is often employed to support the front two. In 1996, he moved to Al-Zawraa from Al-Karkh formerly known as Al Rasheed, a club he joined at the age of 11 and flourished under coaches Amer Jamil and then Adnan Hamad.

It was Hamad who encouraged him to use his imagination more on the field, by thinking of himself as a fox; cunning and clever.

Honours

Country

• 2002 WAFF Champions

External links

• Ahmad Abdul-Jabar at National-Football-Teams.com