Muhannad Naim

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Muhannad Naim
Personal information
Full name Muhannad Naim Hussain
Date of birth (1993-01-28) 28 January 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Al Khor
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2017 Al Sadd 17 (0)
2013–2014 → Eupen (loan) 2 (0)
2017–2018 Al-Arabi 12 (0)
2018–2019 Al-Kharaitiyat 1 (0)
2019–2020 Umm Salal 2 (0)
2020–2021 Muaither 0 (0)
International career
2009–2013 Qatar U-20 – (0)
2010– Qatar U-23 4 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Muhannad Naim (born 28 January 1993) is a Qatari-Palestinian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He also currently plays for the Qatar U-21 national team as their first choice goalkeeper, and he also plays for the Qatar Olympic (U-23) team.

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Career

Muhannad Naim first started playing football at the age of eight. [1] He played in Al Khor's youth team as a teenager, but later joined Al Sadd's senior team in 2009 in what was supposed to be a temporary loan. [2]

He participated in the ASPIRE U-19 tournament held in Doha in April 2012. Qatar won the tournament, only conceding a single goal, resulting in Naim winning the "Best Goalkeeper of the Tournament" award. [3]

In January 2013, he had undergone a training period in German club Schalke 04 in the interim of their training camp being held in Doha. Additionally, he played in a friendly for Al Sadd against Schalke, narrowly losing 2–3. Later that month, he was sent on loan to ASPIRE-owned Belgian 2nd Division club Eupen until the end of the season. [4] He made 2 appearances for the club before returning to Al Sadd.

Personal life

Naim was born in Saudi Arabia to Palestinian parents, and moved to Qatar at a young age. He is a youth international for Qatar. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Robert Booth (14 November 2015). "'We will be ready, inshallah': inside Qatar's $200bn World Cup". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. ↑ Al Sadd - MUHANNAD NAIM [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Al Kass - اثارة وندية و"كيكة" في مران السد استعدادا للخويا
  4. ↑ مهند نعيم ينتقل من السد إلى بلجيكا (in Arabic). Al Kass. 31 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ↑ "Palestine-Eligible Players -". footballpalestine.com.


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