Hammadi Ahmad

Hammadi Ahmad
Hammadi Ahmad at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name Hammadi Ahmed Abdullah
Date of birth (1989-10-18) 18 October 1989
Place of birth Ishaqi, Iraq
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Number 10
Youth career
2004–2005 Salahaddin
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2010 Samarra (19)
2010– Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya (106)
National team‡
2016 Iraq U23 3 (0)
2012–2017 Iraq 40 (6)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 November 2016
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 March 2017

Hammadi Ahmad Abdullah Al-Daiya (Arabic: حمادي احمد عبدالله الدعية‎; born 18 October 1989 in Samarra) is an Iraqi footballer. He plays as a striker for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and the Iraq national team.

Club career

The player started his career with two local clubs in the lower divisions, first at hometown side Al-Ishaqi and then Al-Balad. In 2004, he moved to first division club Salahaddin where he spent only a season before making his name at Samarra becoming the club’s main striker and match-winner and is fondly remembered by their fans.

Hamadi Ahmed Abdullah Al-Taie was born in the town of Ishaqi in the Balad district in Saladin Governorate on October 18, 1989. However, there were suggestions made by Olympic coach Nadhim Shaker that the player was born in 1983. [1] The story goes that the player had applied for a visa to Amman to play for Iraq at the WAFF Championship. However for unknown reasons, the player failed to get a visa and sat out the tournament.[1] Months later he was called-up for the Olympic team by Nadhim Shaker, Wolfgang Sidka’s assistant but with the knowledge that the player had previously applied for a visa with a passport noting the year of birth as 1983, making him ineligible to play at Under 23 level, the coach Nadhim Shaker decided to omit the player so the Iraq FA would not suffer any sanctions from the AFC or FIFA. [1] Confirming the suspicions that he was born in 1983 the player had represented Tikrit University at the Arab University Championship in Cairo in 2006.

His move to Baghdad giants Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya came about after he was one of the provincial players called into the national team after the appointment of German Wolfgang Sidka in 2010 and roomed with Al-Jawiya’s Ahmed Ayad – who was the go-between with the player and the Al-Jawiya club officials and after he was given his release papers by Samarra, he signed for the famous club. [1]

He helped Al-Jawiya to the World Military Cup as the club represented Iraq in the 2013 CISM World Military Cup where Hamadi was the tournament’s top scorer with nine goals in Baku. Hamadi is a poacher in the six-yard box and has been one of the most prolific goal scorers in the Iraqi league scoring almost 100 goals in his six seasons with the Blue Falcons in the league including 27 goals in a single season in his second season at the club where he was league top scorer for the first time in his career. [1]

On 1 December 2016 Hammadi received offers from clubs in Qatar, Baniyas club in United Arab Emirates and Al-Shabab FC in Saudi Arabia to play to their team.[2][3]

International career

He played his first match for the national team on 17 April 2012 against Egypt, and on 14 November 2012, he scored his first goal for the national team against Jordan.

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.14 November 2012Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha Jordan1–01–02014 World Cup qualifier
2.10 December 2012Al-Sabah Stadium, Kuwait City Jordan1–01–02012 WAFF Championship
3.9 January 2013Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Isa Town Kuwait1–01–021st Arabian Gulf Cup
4.12 January 2013Khalifa Sports City Stadium, Isa Town Yemen2–02–021st Arabian Gulf Cup
5.11 November 2013Prince Mohammed Stadium, Zarqa Syria1–12–1Friendly match
6.19 November 2013Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Jakarta Indonesia1–02–02015 Asian Cup qual.

Style of play

Brazil football legend Zico commenting on Ahmed. is a player very well for me. It was very fast and good technically.[4]

Honours

Club

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya

Country

Iraq
Iraq Military National Team

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Mubarak, Hassanin. "Iraq Olympic Team Profile".
  2. ↑ حمادي يدرس عروض احتراف
  3. ↑ عروض احترافية لحمادي
  4. ↑ Zico commenting on Hammadi
  5. ↑ MVP Award


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