Sanharib Malki

Sanharib Malki
Personal information
Full name Sanharib Malki Sabah
Date of birth (1984-03-01) 1 March 1984
Place of birth Qamishli, Syria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Striker
Number 16
Youth career
1999–2002 SCUP Jette
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2005 Union St.-Gilloise 100 (45)
2006–2007 Roeselare 28 (7)
2007–2009 Germinal Beerschot 69 (23)
2009–2011 Lokeren 31 (3)
2011Panthrakikos (loan) 13 (1)
2011–2013 Roda JC Kerkrade 65 (42)
2013–2016 Kasımpaşa 61 (11)
2017 Al-Wakrah 2 (0)
National team
2008– Syria 28 (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 September 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2016

Sanharib Malki Sabah (Syriac: ܣܢܚܪܝܒ ܡܠܟܝ; Arabic: سنحاريب ملكي صباح; born 1 March 1984) is a Syrian footballer who plays as a striker Syrian national team. besides his Syrian Nationality, he also holds Belgian and Turkish passports.

For K.S.V. Roeselare, his previous club, he scored their very first European goal in the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup 2006-07 against FK Vardar from Macedonia.

He is of Aramean ethnicity.[1] As an Aramean celebrity he also is the Ambassador of the Syriac Aramean Federation in the Netherlands and frequently makes appearances in Dutch media and publishes open letters to the Dutch Ministers to promote the Aramean cause in their homeland (Syria, Turkey and Iraq).[2]

International career

He received his first cap in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification tournament for Syria against Kuwait on June 8, 2008, thereby eliminating the possibility of playing for Belgium ever again although just one month earlier he was on a training camp with the Belgian national football team under 23s.[3]

International goals

Scores and results table. Syria's goal tally first:[4]
Sanharib Malki: International goals
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
122 June 2008Tahnoun bin Mohammed Stadium, Al-Ain, UAE United Arab Emirates3–13–12010 FIFA World Cup qualification
215 November 2013Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium, Tehran, Iran Singapore1–04–02015 AFC Asian Cup qualification
312 November 2014Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysia2–03–0International Friendly
415 November 2014Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia1–02-0International Friendly
511 June 2015Mashhad, Iran Afghanistan5–06–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
68 September 2015Phnom Penh, Cambodia Cambodia2–06–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification
724 March 2016Seeb, Oman Cambodia6–06–02018 FIFA World Cup qualification

References

  1. "Interview with the Tiger of Damascus".
  2. "OPEN BRIEF AAN DE MINISTER VAN BUITENLANDSE ZAKEN: SYRIË SCHREEUWT OM VREDE, NIET OM OORLOG".
  3. "Malki: "In Syria they respect me"" (in Dutch). sporza.be. 2008-05-26. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27.
  4. "Malki, Sanharib Salem". National Football Teams. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
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