Abbubaker Mobara
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| Personal information | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abbubaker Mobara[1] | ||||
| Date of birth | 18 February 1994 | ||||
| Place of birth | Cape Town, South Africa | ||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||
| Position(s) | Defender, midfielder | ||||
| Team information | |||||
Current team | Cape Town City | ||||
| Number | 3 | ||||
| Youth career | |||||
| Woodlands FC | |||||
| Ajax Cape Town | |||||
| Senior career* | |||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||
| 2013–2016 | Ajax Cape Town | 45 | (2) | ||
| 2016–2019 | Orlando Pirates | 39 | (0) | ||
| 2019– | Cape Town City | 2 | (0) | ||
| International career‡ | |||||
| 2015 | South Africa U23 | 5 | (0) | ||
| 2016– | South Africa | 8 | (0) | ||
| 2016 | South Africa Olympic | 5 | (0) | ||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC) | |||||
Abbubaker Mobara (born 18 February 1994) is a South African football (soccer) player who plays as a defender and midfielder for Cape Town City F.C. (2016) in the Premier Soccer League.[2] He can play as right back, centre back and defensive midfielder
Early life
Mobara, who hails from Mitchells Plain on the Cape Flats, started playing soccer at his school and was spotted by Ajax Cape Town scouts after scoring for his local club against them in a cup final.[3]
Early career
Mobara previously underwent trials with FC Twente, FC Porto, and RC Lens before returning to Ajax Cape Town. Mobara also spent time with AFC Ajax but was not signed.[4]
International career
He has caps at U17, U18 and U20 levels for South Africa.[3]
Honours
Individual
- 2016-17 Nedbank Cup player of the tournament
Club
- Ajax Cape Town[5]
- MTN 8: 2015
National
Bafana Bafana
- Cosafa cup: 2016
References
- ^ "2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations - Group A squads" (PDF). cafonline.com. Confederation of African Football. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b ExtraTime Archived 13 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ajax Register Mobara | www.soccerladuma.co.za
- ^ "Abbubaker Mobara – Career Honours". Soccerway.
External links
- ‘Player prolie’
- Abbubaker Mobara at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Abbubaker Mobara at Soccerway
- Abbubaker Mobara at National-Football-Teams.com
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from May 2012
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Cape Town
- Ajax Cape Town F.C. players
- Orlando Pirates F.C. players
- Cape Town City F.C. (2016) players
- South African Premier Division players
- South African soccer players
- Association football midfielders
- Association football defenders
- Cape Coloureds
- 2015 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations players
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic soccer players of South Africa
- South Africa international soccer players
- South African people of Indian descent