Zaman was born on 15 December 1979 in Faqeerabad, Peshawar. He graduated with Master of Arts in Urdu literature at the Peshawar University. Zaman started playing football from his school days until joining Frontiers Scouts club at the age of 10 in 1989.[2] In 1994, Zaman played the Lifeboy Trophy Youth League in Abbottabad where his team clinched the title.[2]
Club career
Zaman joined National Football Championship departmental side Allied Bank Limited in 1995, winning the first title in 1997, and then consecutively in 1999 and 2000.[2][3] He also won the National Football Challenge Cup four times with Allied Bank, winning in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2002. Zaman's career came to an end in 2002, when Allied Bank abolished their football team.[2]
During the 2002 World Cup qualifiers he became the only Pakistani footballer to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match.[5][6][7] He completed the hat-trick within 40 minutes against Sri Lanka in a 3–3 draw.[8][9]
Zaman (second to left) as assistant manager of the Pakistan national team in 2011
In 2012, Gohar was dismissed from his position as assistant manager under the leadership of the Faisal Saleh Hayat, due to allegations of irresponsibility made by the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF). However, it was later discovered that the real reason for his dismissal was his refusal to hand over the salary he had received from the Asian Football Confederation's Aid-27 program to the PFF.[14] Over the years, the PFF had been consistently reclaiming the salaries of coaches, received from the Asian football governing body, under the pretense of these funds being "donations" intended to support Pakistan football.[14]
Following the expulsion of Hayat by FIFA, he was assigned the assistant role again in 2019, for a tour in Malaysia under head coach Tariq Lutfi.[15]
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