Rami Hamadeh

Rami Hamadeh
Personal information
Full name	Rami Hamadeh
Date of birth	24 March 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth	Shefa-'Amr, Israel
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Bnei Sakhnin
Youth career
	Hapoel Shefa-'Amr
	Maccabi Netanya
Senior career*
Years	Team
2012–2014	Thaqafi Tulkarem
2014–2015	Shabab Al-Khader
2015–2017	Thaqafi Tulkarem
2017–2020	Hilal Al-Quds
2020–	Bnei Sakhnin
International career‡
2011	Palestine U19
2012–2018	Palestine U23
2013–	Palestine
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2020; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 July 2020

Rami Hamadeh (Arabic: رامي حمادة; born 24 March 1994) is a Palestinian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Palestine national football team and Bnei Sakhnin in the Israeli Premier League.^[1]

First Steps

At 17, Hamadeh was called into his first national team youth team. He played three out of four qualifiers for the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship, missing the final qualifier due to yellow card accumulation conceding four goals in three games and making a number of outstanding saves to keep the overmatched Palestinians in games against Syria, UAE, and Lebanon.

In 2012, he was called up to the U-22 side in their quest to qualify for the 2013 AFC U-22 Championship and served as the back-up to Ghanem Mahajneh.

In 2013, he was called up to face Jordan in an unofficial friendly and came on in the 81st minute in place of Ramzi Saleh.

The following year, he made waves in a friendly vs. Brazil, holding the opposition scoreless for 60 minutes and saving a penalty from Ademilson.^[2]

Hamadeh was the starting goalkeeper at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and played a key role in Palestine winning its first ever games at the competition and advancing to the knockout round for the first time.

International career

In 2015, Hamadeh was the youngest member of Palestine's 2015 AFC Asian Cup squad but did not play. He became Palestine's starting goalkeeper during the 2016/17 season in which he conceded a mere 9 league goals in 21 games for Thaqafi Tulkarem. His first official national team cap came in a friendly vs. Yemen on 22 March 2017. He kept a clean sheet in his first three games- becoming the first Palestinian goalkeeper to do so. In his first 10 national team caps, Hamadeh has kept 6 clean sheets recording six victories, two draws, and two losses.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, he was called as one of three overage players to Palestine's 2018 Asian Games squad.

Achievements

West Bank Premier League

Winner (1): 2017/18

Palestine Cup

Winner (1):2017–18

Palestine Super Cup

Winner (1): 2018

Individual

WBPL Golden Glove

Winner (2): 2016/17, 2017/18

References

^ "رامي حمادة" (in Arabic). كووورة. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
^ "Rafinha beats Palestine with Brazil U21 (3–0)". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 9 August 2018.

External links

Rami Hamadeh at National-Football-Teams.com
Rami Hamadeh at Soccerway

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[1] "رامي حمادة" (in Arabic). كووورة. Retrieved 9 August 2018.

[2] "Rafinha beats Palestine with Brazil U21 (3–0)". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 9 August 2018.

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