Abbas Ahmed Atwi

Abbas Ahmed Atwi
عباس عطوي
Personal information
Full name Abbas Ahmed Atwi
Date of birth (1979-09-12) 12 September 1979
Place of birth Beirut, Lebanon
Playing position Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Shabab Al-Sahel
Number 12
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997– 2017 Nejmeh 190 (79)
2011–2012 → Dubai Club (loan) 13 (3)
2017–2018 Al Shabab Al Arabi 9 (0)
2018– Shabab Al-Sahel 0 (0)
National team‡
2002–2016 Lebanon 84[1] (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of March 29, 2016

Abbas Ahmed Atwi (Arabic: عباس أحمد عطوي; born 12 September 1979) is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays as Midfield for Shabab Al-Sahel. He is wearing the number 10 shirt. He is not related to fellow Lebanese footballer and Al-Ansar player, Abbas Ali Atwi, or simply as Onika.

Atwi started his career for Al Nijmeh in the 1997/98 season, and he has been forcefully set to retirement by the club's board. He made his debut for the Lebanon national football team in a 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualifying match against Jordan on 17 October 2003.[2] He appeared in eight qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[3]

International career

He began to play in 2002 for Lebanon in the match against Jordan. He appeared in every FIFA World Cup qualification in 2006, 2010 and 2014 editions. He is the most capped player for his country with 81 official matches.

International goals

Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first.
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.9 April 2008Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon Maldives3–04–02011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
2.23 January 2009Surakul Stadium, Phuket, Thailand North Korea0–10–12009 King's Cup
3.25 August 2009Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi, India Kyrgyzstan0–11–12009 Nehru Cup
4.15 November 2011Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon South Korea2–12–12014 FIFA World Cup Qualification
5.14 December 2012Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah Stadium, Al Farwaniyah, Kuwait Kuwait1–12–12012 WAFF Championship
6.26 August 2015Saida International Stadium, Sidon, Lebanon Iraq1–12–3Friendly
7.8 October 2015Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand Myanmar0–20–22018 FIFA World Cup Qualification

References

  1. ↑ Abbas Ahmed Atwi - International Appearances. RSSSF
  2. ↑ "International Matches 2003 - Asia". RSSSF. Retrieved 21 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Abbas Atwi – FIFA competition record (archive)
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