Ahmad Abdul-Jabar (Arabic: احمد العبدالجبار جاسم) (born 8 January 1978) is an Iraqi former Iraq national football team football player who is currently manager of Al-Karkh SC.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ahmad Al-Abduljabar Jassim | ||
| Date of birth | 8 January 1978 | ||
| Place of birth | Iraq | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Al-Karkh SC (Manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1995 | Al-Karkh | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1997 | Al-Karkh | ||
| 1997–2002 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2002–2004 | Al-Shamal | ||
| 2004–2006 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2006–2008 | Al-Yarmouk | ||
| 2008–2009 | Duhok | ||
| 2009–2010 | Baghdad | ||
| 2010–2011 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2011–2012 | Zakho | ||
| 2012–2015 | Al-Karkh | ||
| International career‡ | |||
| 1998–2009 | Iraq | 27 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2018 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker) | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker) | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya | ||
| 2019 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2019–2020 | Al-Karkh (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Al-Karkh | ||
| 2021 | Al-Karkh (Assist. coach) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya SC | ||
| 2022– | Al-Karkh | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 July 2019 | |||
Ahmad, known as Al-Alemane ('The German') by his teammates, due to his fair skin and hair. He bore a slight resemblance to Brazilian Juninho of Middlesbrough and Atletico Madrid.
The qualified engineer also had the diminutive Brazilian's same penchant for taking on defenders with mazey runs and is often employed to support the front two. In 1996, he moved to Al-Zawraa from Al-Karkh, a club he joined at the age of 11 and flourished under coaches Amer Jamil and then Adnan Hamad.
It was Hamad who encouraged him to use his imagination more on the field, by thinking of himself as a fox; cunning and clever.[1]
Manager career
Ahmad started his coaching career by becoming the assistant for Abbas Attiya at the start of the season 2018–2019, then led the team for a while after the leaving of Attiya. Ahmad then also became the assistant of Mudhafar Jabbar Tawfik in the same season. After leaving of Tawfik, Ahmad came back again and led the team with a great and massive win over Naft Maysan FC in Maysan Stadium, which led to the appointment of him as the head coach on 3 February 2019.
Managerial statistics
- As of 3 July 2022
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | Win % | ||||
| Al-Sinaat (Caretaker) |  | 7 November 2018 | 29 November 2018 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 25.00 |
| Al-Sinaat (Caretaker) | | 23 February 2019 | 3 March 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Al-Sinaat | | 3 March 2019 | 24 July 2019 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 31.58 |
| Al-Karkh SC | | 2 December 2020 | 18 July 2021 | 45 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 31.11 |
| Al-Sinaat | | 3 December 2021 | 19 February 2022 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 33.33 |
| Al-Karkh SC | | 21 February 2022 | ""Present"" | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 42.11 |
| Total | 97 | 33 | 34 | 30 | 34.02 | |||
Honours
Player
Club
- Iraqi Premier League: 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2005–06, 2010–11
- Iraq FA Cup: 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000
- Umm al-Ma'arik Championship: 1999–2000
- Iraqi Super Cup: 1998, 1999, 2000
International
As A Manager
References
External links
- Ahmad Abdul-Jabar at National-Football-Teams.com