Hakeem Shaker

Hakeem Shakir
Personal information
Full name Hakeem Shaker Flayyih Al-Azzawi
Date of birth (1963-01-07) 7 January 1963
Place of birth Baghdad, Iraq
Youth career
1976–1978 Al-Jaish
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1979 Al-Amana
1979–1983 Al-Talaba
1984–1985 Al-Shorta
Teams managed
1991–1996 Al-Jaish (assistant until 1993)
1996 Samarra
1997–2001 Al-Difaa Al-Jawi
2002–2003 Erbil
2003–2005 Estiqlal Baghdad
2005 Iraq U-20 (assistant)
2006–2007 Ararat
2008 Iraq U-20
2010 Al-Shorta
2011 Al-Shorta
2011–2013 Iraq U-20
2012–2013 Iraq U-23
2012–2013 Iraq (interim)
2013–2014 Iraq
2014 Iraq U-23
2015 Al-Shorta
2016–2017 Al-Suwaiq
2018 Al-Suwaiq
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Hakeem Shaker (Arabic: حكيم شاكر‎, born 7 January 1963 in Baghdad, Iraq), is a former Iraqi football player and manager. At some point between late 2012 and early 2013, Hakeem was the first and only Iraqi coach to manage three Iraqi national teams (Iraq senior team, Olympic team and Youth team) at the same time.

Coaching career

In 2011 Hakeem Shaker was appointed as Iraq U-20 coach and he led Iraq to qualify to the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship finals without any loss in the qualifications and reached the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship final undefeated, only to lose to South Korea on Penalty kicks 1-4 after 1-1 draw, leading Iraq to qualify to the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey.

In 2012 Hakeem was appointed as Iraq Olympic Team in the same time as being the coach of the Iraq U-20 coach. Hakeem lead the Olympic team to qualify to the 2013 AFC U-22 Asian Cup passing the qualifications without any loss.

In December 2012, after the resignation of Iraq national football team coach Zico, and being one week from the 2012 WAFF Championship kickoff, an emergency call made by Iraq Football Association to appoint Hakeem Shaker to be Iraq national football team temporary coach and caretaker until a new coach would be appointed. Hakeem led Iraq to reach the 2012 WAFF Championship final undefeated but lost the final to Syria 0-1. Later on January 2013, similar scenario occurred when Hakeem led Iraq to the 21st Arabian Gulf Cup finale after 4 Consecutive wins, defeating Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, and Bahrain, but failing to defeat UAE in the final, UAE won in the extra time 1-2.

On January 24, 2013 Hakeem Shaker was supposed to be appointed officially as the Iraq national team head coach and to lead Iraq in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification, however despite the win against Indonesia 1-0 in the first match in the qualifications, on February 8, 2013 Hakeem decided to leave the Iraq first team to another coach and focus on the Iraq U-20 team in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

In the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup Hakeem led Iraq to 4th place for the first time in Iraq history after winning Iraq's group over Chile 2-1, Egypt 2-1, and a draw with England 2-2. Then in the round of 16 Iraq won over Paraguay 1-0, then on quarterfinals won over the Asian champions South Korea on Penalty kicks 5-4 after a draw 3-3. However, in the semifinals Iraq lose on Penalty kicks 6-7 by Uruguay after a draw 1-1. In the 3rd place match Iraq had their first defeat to Ghana 0-3.

On latter half of 2014, failed to win the 2014 Asian Games gold medal after Iraq U23 loss in the semi-finals against North Korea U23 in the 2014 Asian Games Although participated Younis Mahmoud & Salam Shaker and Mahdi Karim and most of the national team players. Then a poor results with two draw in friendly matches against Yemen and Bahrain and a defeat with Peru, and following Iraq defeat to Kuwait & UAE, draw against Oman in 22nd Arabian Gulf Cup, were eliminated in the group stages. Due to this after a run of poor results, the FA decided he sacked on 29 November 2014.[1]

In October 2016, he signed with Oman Professional League team Al-Suwaiq, the club finished 6th in the league that season.[2] On 26 March 2018, he returned to Al-Suwaiq with signing contract. the team was at the top of the league four points clear of the nearest rival before taking over.

Managerial statistics

As of 25 May 2017
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Estiqlal Iraq October 2004 May 2005 16 4 4 8 025.00
Iraq U20 Iraq April 2008 November 2008 6 1 1 4 016.67
Al-Shorta Iraq July 2010 August 2010 9 4 3 2 044.44
Al-Shorta Iraq March 2011 March 2011 1 0 1 0 000.00
Iraq U20 Iraq October 2011 July 2013 17 11 5 1 064.71
Iraq U23 Iraq June 2012 July 2012 5 3 2 0 060.00
Iraq Iraq December 2012 February 2013 12 7 2 3 058.33
Iraq Iraq September 2013 November 2014 15 5 4 6 033.33
Iraq U23 Iraq January 2014 October 2014 13 12 0 1 092.31
Al-Shorta Iraq July 2015 October 2015 6 2 0 4 033.33
Al-Suwaiq Oman October 2016 May 2017 30 11 11 8 036.67
Al-Suwaiq Oman 10 April 2018 3 June 2018 13 8 1 4 061.54
Total 143 68 34 41 047.55

Managerial honours

Club

Al-Difaa Al-Jawi

  • Al-Quds International Championship: 1999

Ararat

  • Kurdistan Regional Cup: 2006

Al-Suwaiq

International

Iraq U-23

References

  1. ↑ "FA decided sacked on 29 November 2014" (in Arabic).
  2. ↑ "Professional League - Oman - Results, fixtures, - Soccerway".
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