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Almoez Ali
Ali in 2018
Personal information
Full name Almoez Ali Zainalabiddin Abdulla[1]
Date of birth (1996-08-19) 19 August 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Khartoum, Sudan[2][3][4][5]
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Al-Duhail
Number 19
Youth career
2003–2005 Al-Mesaimeer
2005–2012 Aspire Academy
2012–2014 Lekhwiya
2014–2015 Eupen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015 LASK Linz 7 (1)
2015 FC Pasching 4 (5)
2016 Cultural Leonesa 10 (1)
2016–2017 Lekhwiya 25 (8)
2017– Al-Duhail 31 (10)
International career‡
2014 Qatar U19 6 (3)
2015 Qatar U20 3 (0)
2016–2018 Qatar U23 7 (6)
2016– Qatar 34 (18)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 January 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 January 2019

Almoez Ali Zainalabiddin Abdulla (Arabic: المعز علي زين العابدين عبد الله) (born 19 August 1996) is a Sudanese-born Qatari professional footballer who plays for Al-Duhail in the Qatar Stars League as a forward. He is a member of the Qatar national team.

Club career

Almoez Ali was born in Sudan and moved to Qatar as a child.[6][7] He started playing for Al-Mesaimeer when he was 7 years old, then moved to Aspire Academy and played youth football at Lekhwiya SC.[8][9] He was also a part of the youth setup for Belgian club Eupen in 2015.[10]

In July 2015, Ali joined the senior team of Austrian club LASK Linz.[11] His first and only league goal for the club's first team came on 27 November 2015 against Floridsdorfer AC.[12] In January 2016, he left the club and joined Cultural Leonesa in Spain's third tier, the Segunda División B.[13] On 3 April 2016, he scored his first goal for Cultural Leonesa in a 1–0 victory over Arandina,[14] becoming the first Qatari footballer ever to score in a Spanish league.[15]

Ali rejoined his former youth club Lekhwiya SC for the 2016-17 season. He scored his first goal for the club on 27 September 2016 in a 5-4 win against Muaither.[16] He went on to make 25 appearances and scoring 8 goals, as well as providing 8 assists and being awared as the best U23 player of the season as his club won the Qatar Stars League.[17]

In the following season, Almoez Ali was part of the newly rebranded Al-Duhail, as his former club was merged with El Jaish and was part of the unbeaten QSL title campaign.[18]

International career

Almoez Ali unofficially made his inaugural appearance for the senior national team in a friendly against Bahrain in December 2013. The match was not recognized by FIFA.[19]

In 2014, Almoez Ali was a part of the Qatar U19 team that won the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship. In 2015, he was part of the Qatar U20 squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played in the three group stage matches, but Qatar did not advance to the knockout stage.[20][21][22]

On 8 August 2016, Almoez Ali made his official senior debut for the national team as a substitute in 2-1 win against Iraq.[23] Furthermore, he was the top scorer in the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship with six goals and played an instrumental role in Qatar's third-place ranking.[24]

2019 AFC Asian Cup

Ali celebrating after scoring a goal against UAE in 2019 AFC Asian Cup semi-final.

He was selected for Qatar's squad in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. He found the net in his team's first group stage game against Lebanon. In the next game against North Korea, he scored a four goals in a span of 51 minutes,[25] the second fastest time to four goals after Iranian Ali Daei, who scored four goals in 23 minutes against South Korea in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup.[26]

The following match, against Saudi Arabia, he increased his tally in the competition to seven goals after scoring both goals in the 2-0 win.[27] In doing so, he became the joint-top scorer in the AFC Asian Cup Group Stage, sharing the record with Ali Daei of Iran, Choi Soon-ho of South Korea and Naohiro Takahara of Japan. He also broke Mansour Muftah's all-time record of five goals scored for the Qatar national team in the AFC Asian Cup.[28]

In the semi-final against United Arab Emirates, Ali scored his eighth goal of the competition in a 4-0 win, equalling Ali Daei's mark established in 1996 as the most goals scored in a single AFC Asian Cup edition.[29]

International goals

Scores and results list Qatar's goal tally first.[19]
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 5 October 2017 Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Singapore 1–0 3–1 Friendly
2. 2–0
3. 14 December 2017 Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Liechtenstein 1–0 1–2
4. 23 December 2017 Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait  Yemen 3–0 4–0 23rd Arabian Gulf Cup
5. 26 December 2017 Al Kuwait Sports Club Stadium, Kuwait City, Kuwait  Iraq 1–0 1–2
6. 7 September 2018 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar  China 1–0 1–0 Friendly
7. 11 September 2018 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Palestine 1–0 3–0
8. 12 October 2018 Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Ecuador 2–0 4–3
9. 4–1
10. 23 December 2018 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar  Jordan 1–0 2–0
11. 9 January 2019 Hazza bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates  Lebanon 2–0 2–0 2019 AFC Asian Cup
12. 13 January 2019 Khalifa bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates  North Korea 1–0 6–0
13. 2–0
14. 4–0
15. 5–0
16. 17 January 2019 Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  Saudi Arabia 1–0 2–0
17. 2–0
18. 29 January 2019 Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates 2–0 4–0

Honours

Club

Al-Duhail

International

Qatar
Qatar U19

Individual

References

  1. ^ https://www.fifadata.com/document/FWYC/2015/pdf/FWYC_2015_SquadLists_QAT.pdf
  2. ^ https://www.afp.com/en/news/831/sound-silence-qatar-hit-north-korea-six-doc-1c712v7
  3. ^ https://www.footballdatabase.eu/en/player/details/249470-almoez_ali-abdulla
  4. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/nov/22/xavi-qatar-four-years-until-world-cup
  5. ^ http://www.espn.com.au/soccer/fifa-world-cup/4/blog/post/3700843/qatars-unknown-players-may-not-be-the-2022-world-cup-flops-theyre-expected-to-be
  6. ^ https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/asian-cup-qatar-beat-saudi-arabia-gulf-grudge-match-849854291
  7. ^ https://trivela.com.br/a-copa-da-asia-define-seus-mata-matas-com-o-catar-surpreendendo-como-melhor-da-fase-de-grupos/
  8. ^ "المعز علي: لم أتوقع فوزي كأفضل لاعب صاعد".
  9. ^ "AlMoez 'AlMoez' Ali Abdulla (32) Forward". LASK Linz. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  10. ^ "Katar mit 6 KAS-Spielern" (in German). KAS Eupen. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  11. ^ "Almoez Ali". Norsk Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  12. ^ "LASK Linz-Floridsdorfer AC". Republica Sport. 27 November 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  13. ^ Marcel Yildiz (4 January 2016). "Duo verlässt den LASK" (in German). Fussball Imnetz.
  14. ^ "Continúa la mala racha ribereña". Diario de Burgos. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  15. ^ https://www.vavel.com/es/futbol/2016/04/10/segunda-b/631027-ali-almoez-quiero-subir-a-segunda-el-proximo.html
  16. ^ https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/27/09/2016/Lekhwiya-set-early-pace
  17. ^ https://www.qsl.qa/en/news/almoez-ali-wins-best-u23-player-award
  18. ^ http://www.the-afc.com/news/afcsection/undefeated-al-duhail-secure-sixth-qatar-stars-league-title
  19. ^ a b "Abdulla, Almoez Ali". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  20. ^ https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=271602/match=300269545/report.html
  21. ^ https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=271602/match=300269529/report.html
  22. ^ https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/matches/round=271602/match=300269564/report.html
  23. ^ http://www.espn.com/soccer/match?gameId=463796
  24. ^ Adwaidh Rajan (14 January 2019). "AFC Asian Cup 2019: Almoez Ali and Akram Afif – Qatar's hopes for 2022 World Cup". Fox Sports Asia. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  25. ^ "AFC Asian Cup 2019: Almoez Ali sets new AFC Asian Cup record in Qatar's 6-0 demolition of DPR Korea". Fox Sports Asia. 13 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  26. ^ "Moments and Milestones: Ali Daei's 23 minute masterclass". Tehran Times. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  27. ^ "Shiotani fires Japan past Uzbeks, Qatar's Ali downs Saudis". AFP. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  28. ^ Abdelaziz Abuhamar (18 January 2019). "Stats: Almoez strikes against Saudi set new marks in Asian Cup history". Inside World Football. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  29. ^ http://www.the-afc.com/asiancup/news/qatar-s-almoez-ali-equals-tournament-record-goal-tally
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