Mohammed Ghaddar
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| Mohammed Ghaddar محمد غدار |
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| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mohammed Ghaddar | |
| Date of birth | January 1, 1984 | |
| Place of birth | Lebanon | |
| Playing position | forward | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Nejmeh | |
| Number | 22 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998-present |
Nejmeh | ? (?) |
| National team | ||
2004 2005- |
Lebanon U21 Lebanon U23 Lebanon |
?? (10) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Mohammed Ghaddar (Arabic: محمد غدار) (born on January 1, 1984) is a Lebanese international footballer. He currently plays for Nejmeh in Lebanon, who play in the top division of Lebanese football in the Lebanese Premier League. He plays as a striker, wearing the number 22 shirt for Nejmeh. For the Lebanon national football team, he is currently wearing the number 11 shirt.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Club Career
Mohammed Ghaddar has been playing for Nejmeh SC his whole professional career. He wears the number 22 shirt. In the 2006/07 Season Ghaddar was the top scorer of the Lebanese League, scoring a total of 25 goals. In the 2007/2008 season of the Lebanese Premier League, he has scored 21 goals so far, making him current top-scorer with a nine-goal lead on second-place Salih Sadeer of Al-Ansar. He got 6 goals in the 2005/2006.
Last season, in the AFC Cup, he scored two goals for Nejmeh in the group stages to help them top the table. In the quarter finals, Nejmeh had Mahindra United. The Indians scored, but then Ghaddar equalised in the 55th minute and got a late winner in the 85th minute for the first leg to end 2-1 with two away goals. Then, in the second leg, he scored the first of six goals in the 3-3 draw in only 12 minutes time. He has scored a total of 16 goals in the AFC Cup (6 in 2005, 5 in 2006 and 5 in 2007).
[edit] International Career
During the qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics, Ghaddar was part of the Lebanese under-23 team that made it to the final round of the Asian qualifiers. [1]
Mohammed Ghaddar has been a very important member of the national team since his debut for the national team in 2005. Recently, he scored a double in both legs against India, both home and away games. Lebanon got a 4-1 victory in Saida in which he scored in the 62nd and 76th minute. In the Jawaharlar Nehru Stadium in Goa, he equalised in the 76th minute and scored a penalty in the 88th minute in the 2-2 draw. Lebanon won 6-3 on aggregate.
He scored the first two of four goals against the Somalia national football team in an Arab Nations Cup Qualifier. He scored in the 4th and 28th minute. Ali Nasseredine added in the 72nd minute and Paul Rustom finished off Somalia with a goal in the 83rd minute.
He also got a goal against the Maldives national football team, but this time, he got the last goal of four. Mahmoud El Ali, Ali Yaacoub and Abbas Ahmed Atwi got the first three in under 15 minutes time. Ghaddars turn came three minutes later in the 13 minute, and he scored again in the 40th minute.
He scored the first goal for Lebanon with a penalty kick in a friendly match against the Kuwait national football team. Lebanon lost the game 3 - 2. Ghaddar scored in the 14th minute, and Mahmoud El Ali added in the 41st minute, but Kuwait came back with 3 goals.
He got the opening goal of the away friendly against the Qatar national football team in Doha. His goal came in 20 minutes time, before two qatari goals finished off Lebanon's hopes of winning.
He wears the number 11 shirt, usually, for Lebanon.
[edit] International goals
[edit] Honours
During his time at Nejmeh, he and the team won the:
[edit] Personal Honours
The Lebanese national team's technical unit has honored Nejmeh striker Mohammed Ghaddar for being the top scorer at the AFC Cup. National team coach Emile Rustom presented Ghaddar the AFC Cup 2007 "top scorer" cup during a ceremony at the Meridien Commodore hotel in Beirut[3].
Ghaddar scored five goals during the championship.
[edit] Goals of AFC Cup 2007
Group Stages
| 2007-05-08 |  Muscat Club |
0 – 1 |  Al-Nejmeh |
Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman Attendance: 150 Referee: Saad Al Fadhli |
| (Report) | Mohammed Ghaddar  74' |
| 2007-05-22 | Al-Nejmeh |
2 – 1 |  Al-Saqr |
Sports City, Beirut, Lebanon Referee: Kadyrbek Chynybekov |
| Abbas Atwi 13' Mohammed Ghaddar 76' |
(Report) | Fathel Alorome 87' |
Quarter Finals
First Leg
| 2007-09-18 |  Mahindra United |
1 – 2 | Al-Nejmeh |
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, Goa, India Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Ali A. A. Al Mutlaq |
| Rafi 47' |
(Report) | M. Ghaddar 55' 85' |
Second Leg
| 2007-09-25 | Al-Nejmeh |
3 – 3 | Mahindra United |
Sports City, Beirut, Lebanon Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Mohamed Omar Al Saeedi |
| M. Ghaddar 12' Ante Milas 24'Milan Bogunovic 90+4' (pen.) |
(Report) | Minga 33' Harpreet 64'Pomeyie 78' |
Honours:
- AFC Cup Top Scorer: 1
[edit] References
- ^ Games of the XXVIII. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament - Details
- ^ Goals are not correctly ordered, which means that we do not have enough references to show that the goal against Saudi Arabia was the first goal.
- ^ Naharnet Newsdesk - Ghaddar Honored as Top Scorer of AFC Cup
[edit] External Links
- Club website
- Mohammed Ghaddar Statistics Games and goals are not correct, unknown amount of games and goals.
- NaharNet: Ghaddar Honoured as Top Scorer of AFC Cup
