Ahmad Abdul-Jabar
Ahmad Abdul-Jabar (Arabic: احمد العبدالجبار جاسم) (born 8 January 1978) is an Iraqi former Iraq national football team football player who is currently manager of Al-Karkh SC.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ahmad Al-Abduljabar Jassim | ||
| Date of birth | 8 January 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Iraq | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Karkh SC (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1995 | Al-Karkh | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1997 | Al-Karkh | ||
| 1997–2002 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2002–2004 | Al-Shamal | ||
| 2004–2006 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2006–2008 | Al-Yarmouk | ||
| 2008–2009 | Duhok | ||
| 2009–2010 | Baghdad | ||
| 2010–2011 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2011–2012 | Zakho | ||
| 2012–2015 | Al-Karkh | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 1998–2009 | Iraq | 27 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2018 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker) | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker) | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2019–2020 | Al-Karkh (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Al-Karkh | ||
| 2021 | Al-Karkh (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya SC | ||
| 2022– | Al-Karkh | ||
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 July 2019 | |||
Ahmad, known as Al-Alemane ('The German') by his teammates, 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, 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.