Nadia Assaf
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| Full name | Nadia Walid Assaf[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 30 September 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dubai, United Arab Emirates[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Ansar | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Athletico Beirut | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2017 | Girls Football Academy | ||||||||||||||||
| Total | (54) | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Lebanon (futsal) | 1+ | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2013 | Lebanon | 7+ | (5) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Nadia Assaf (Arabic: ناديا عساف; born 30 September 1985)[4] is a Lebanese football manager and former player who played as an attacking midfielder and a centre forward.[5] She is also a former futsal player, and represented Lebanon internationally in both football and futsal.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Born on 30 September 1985, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates[1] to a Lebanese Druze family,[3] Assaf was raised in Australia.[6] She acquired Australian citizenship in the mid 1990s.[citation needed]
Assaf then began playing in local school championships in Australia, before moving to Lebanon and joining the American University of Beirut team.[7] She continued her education in England, playing for the University of Bath team.[7]
Club career
[edit | edit source]Upon her return to Lebanon, Assaf played for Ansar[7] and Athletico[8][9] in the Lebanese Women's Football League.[10] She founded Girls Football Academy in 2011, after having been released by Athletico.[3][11]
International career
[edit | edit source]Assaf has been capped for Lebanon at senior level in both football and futsal. In football, she represented Lebanon in multiple competitions, namely the 2011 WAFF Women's Championship and the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification in 2013, where she played three games and scored two goals against Kuwait.[2]
In futsal, Assaf played for Lebanon at the 2008 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship.[4]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Assaf has a master's degree in Sports Education and Development from the University of Bath in England.[10]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]International
[edit | edit source]- Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Assaf goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
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| 1 | 7 September 2007 | Amman, Jordan |  Syria
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7–0 | 2007 WAFF Women's Championship | ||
| 2 | |||||||
| 3 | 4 October 2011 | Zayed Bin Sultan Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |  Iran
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1–1 | 1–8 | 2011 WAFF Women's Championship | |
| 4 | 9 June 2013 | Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan |  Kuwait
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2–0 | 12–1 | 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification | [2] |
| 5 | 8–0 |
Honours
[edit | edit source]Lebanon
- WAFF Women's Championship third place: 2007
Individual
- Lebanese Women's Football League top goalscorer: 2015–16
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ https://www.al-akhbar.com/Sport/68607/%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%B9-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84
External links
[edit | edit source]- Nadia Assaf at FA Lebanon
- Nadia Assaf at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- American University of Beirut alumni
- Alumni of the University of Bath
- Footballers from Dubai
- Lebanese Druze people
- Lebanese women's footballers
- 21st-century Lebanese sportswomen
- Lebanese women's futsal players
- Women's association football midfielders
- Women's association football forwards
- Al Ansar FC (women) players
- Athletico SC (Lebanon) players
- Girls Football Academy players
- Lebanese Women's Football League players
- Lebanon women's international footballers
- Lebanese women's football managers
- Female association football managers
- International sportspeople born abroad
- Lebanese women's football biography stubs
- Futsal biography stubs