Haidar Abdul-Razzaq

Haidar Abdul-Razzaq
Personal information
Full name	Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Hassan
Date of birth	9 June 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Baghdad, Iraq
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1995–1999	Al-Talaba
Senior career*
Years	Team
1999–2002	Al-Talaba
2002–2003	Al-Ansar
2003–2005	Al-Talaba
2005–2006	Al-Ittihad
2006–2007	Al-Talaba
2007–2008	Duhok
2008–2009	Al-Talaba
2010–2011	Al-Karkh
2011	FK Andijan
2011–2012	Al-Karkh
2012	Sulaymaniyah
International career
2001–2007	Iraq
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Hassan (Arabic: حيدر عبد الرزاق حسن) (born on 9 June 1982 in Iraq) is a former Iraqi footballer who played as a defender for Sulaymaniya FC and the Iraq national football team.

Information

Haidar Abdul-Razzaq is a talented versatile player capable of playing anywhere in defence. He began his playing career with the Talaba youth team in 1995, he had been playing as a goalkeeper for Al-Shurta youth team before switching to defence. In 1996, he was one of five players brought into the Talaba first team by coach Nazar Ashraf, two years later he was called into the Iraqi Under-17s by Adnan Hamad. He also played under the same coach while with the Iraqi Under-19s. winning the AFC Youth Championship final over Japan in dramatic style. Haidar was called up by Milan Zivadinovic for Iraq’s 2002 World Cup qualifiers, making his international debut on 31 January 2000 against Lebanon in Beirut, in a 0-0 draw.^[1] He made three other appearances in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers against Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Iran while Iraq was coached by Croatian Rudolf Belin. He signed for Al-Ansar in Lebanon in 2002 but returned after the end of the war to rejoin Talaba and cemented himself a place on the right-side of defence in the Olympic team.^[2]

Honours

Club

Al-Talaba

Country

2002 WAFF Champions
4th place in 2004 Athens Olympics
2005 West Asian Games Gold medallist.
2007 Asian Cup winner

References

^ Hassanin Mubarak. "Player Database". iraqsport.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2003.
^ "Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Biography and Statistics". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2010.

External links

Haidar Abdul-Razzaq at National-Football-Teams.com

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[1] Hassanin Mubarak. "Player Database". iraqsport.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2003.

[2] "Haidar Abdul-Razzaq Biography and Statistics". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2010.

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