Assaf Khalifa

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Assaf Khalifa
Personal information
Date of birth 1968 (age 55–56)
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1993 Al-Wahda SC
1993–1994 CS Sfaxien
1994 FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi 21 (6)
1995–1997 Nejmeh SC
1998 FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi 1 (0)
1998FC Zhemchuzhina-2 Sochi (loan) 6 (5)
1998–2001 Al-Wahda SC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Assaf Khalifa (Arabic: عساف خليفة; born 1968) is a Syrian former footballer who played as a forward.[1]

Club career

Khalifa was the first foreign player from outside the former USSR in the Russian Football Premier League when he joined FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi in 1994.

Managerial career

After retirement as a player, he went to coaching in Syria: Al-Nidal SC and Al-Wahda SC, Lebanon: Al-Mabarrah, Salam Zgharta and Al Nabi Sheet, Jordan: That Ras Club, and Oman: Oman Club.[2]

Honours

Individual

References

  1. ^ Assaf Khalifa at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
  2. ^ "عساف خليفة - Assaf Khalifa". kooora (in Arabic).