al-Saadi al-Gaddafi

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al-Saadi al-Gaddafi
Personnel
Surname al-Saadi Muammar al-Gaddafi
date of birth May 25, 1973
place of birth Tripoli ,  Libya
size 184 cm
position midfield
Men's
years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2001 al-Ahly Tripoli 14 0(3)
2001-2003 al-Ittihad 74 (20)
2003 Perugia Calcio 0 0(0)
2004-2005 Perugia Calcio 1 0(0)
2005-2006 Udinese Calcio 1 0(0)
2006-2007 Al-Jamahiriyah
2007 Sampdoria Genoa 0 0(0)
National team
years selection Games (goals)
2000-2006 Libya 18 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

As-Saadi al-Gaddafi ( Arabic الساعدي معمر القذافي, DMG as-Sāʿdī Muʿammar al-Gaḏḏāfī ; * May 25, 1973 in Tripoli ) is a former Libyan soccer player , soccer official, film producer and commander in chief of special forces. He is the son of Muammar al-Gaddafi , the former head of state and revolutionary leader in Libya, and his second wife Safaja Farkash .

Career as a football player

Gaddafi, who usually plays attacking midfield on the football field , has long played as the captain of al-Ittihad in Libya.

For the 2003/04 season Gaddafi moved to the Italian Serie A for AC Perugia . The club went down in history as the first European professional club to have the son of a (de facto) head of state in its squad. On October 5, 2003, he was tested positive for doping and banned for three months. His only league game for Perugia he played on May 2, 2004 against Juventus Turin , when he came in the 75th minute for Jay Bothroyd in the game.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he signed a contract with the first division club Udinese Calcio . But here, too, things did not go any better for Gaddafi; the use on May 7, 2005 against Cagliari Calcio , in which he came into the game in the 79th minute for Barreto , was also his last in Serie A. After one season he left the club again and initially played for Al-Jamahiriyah. In January 2007 he moved to Sampdoria Genoa . Until June of the same year, however, he did not play a game for the Blucerchiati , which he then left again.

As-Saadi al-Gaddafi also played for the Libyan national team . When the then Italian national coach of Libya, Franco Scoglio , left Gaddafi on the bench for sporting reasons, he was dismissed by the Libyan Football Association.

Gaddafi was voted Libya's Footballer of the Year several times, including 2001, 2002 and 2003. The political and financial influence of his father made it possible for him not only to receive special treatment at home - for example, deliberately wrong referee decisions in favor of his club Al-Ittihad - but also his professional engagements in Italy.

Functions in Libya

As-Saadi al-Gaddafi, who is married to the daughter of a military commander, was the president of World Navigator Entertainment , a film production company. Gaddafi was also the president of Al-Ittihad. He was also Vice President of the Libyan Football Federation , the football association of Libya. Until October 2003, Gaddafi was also a member of the executive committee of his favorite club, Juventus Turin . This position was guaranteed to him because he represented the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company (Lafico) , which held 7.5% of the shares in the Italian club.

During the 2011 uprising in Libya , he was commander in chief of special forces and was banned from entering the country by the European Union. The change in tactics is said to go back to Gaddafi, so that the rebels in eastern Libya were no longer fought with heavy infantry, tanks and armored vehicles, but with small, fast, agile units. As a result, the government units of Allied fighter-bombers could hardly be distinguished from rebels, so that they were exposed to fewer attacks.

On September 11, 2011, the Nigerien Justice Minister announced that Gaddafi had entered Niger , Libya's southern neighbor. He applied for political asylum. On September 29, 2011, Interpol wrote him out for a search. He was suspected of illegally enriching himself while serving as president of the Libyan Football Association. On November 11, the Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou granted him asylum in his country.

In March 2014, it became known that he had been extradited to Libya. In early September 2021, he was released from prison on the recommendation of the Attorney General. According to media reports, Gaddafi left the country for Turkey.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e World Week: Player of the Year ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ sportgericht.de: Three months ban for Al-Saadi Gaddafi
  3. ↑ a b sportgericht.de: Al-Saadi Gaddafi tested positive
  4. ↑ Saadi Gaddafi to Udinese . transfermarkt.de. June 26, 2005. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ see inter alia. Time , 11 Friends ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) and World Week ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Beautiful Atrocities: Gaddafi: The Comedy ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Gaddafi tricked rebels
  8. ↑ Gaddafi's son Saadi apparently in Niger . orf.at. September 11, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  9. ↑ Al-Saadi Ghadhafi arrived in Niamey. In: Basler Zeitung of September 14, 2011, accessed on September 14, 2011.
  10. ↑ Interpol writes out Ghadhafi's son Al-Saadi to be searched worldwide. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 29, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2011 .
  11. ↑ Profile: GADDAFI, ASSAADI. In: Interpol . Archived from the original on December 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 22, 2011 (English).
  12. ↑ Niger grants Saadi al-Ghadhafi asylum. In: NZZ Online from November 11, 2011
  13. ↑ Niger delivers Muammar al-Gaddafi's son to Tripoli
  14. ^ Gaddafi's son released from prison , Deutsche Welle, September 6, 2021.


personal data
SURNAME Gaddafi, al-Saadi as-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES الساعدي معمر القذافي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Libyan soccer player, soccer official and film producer
BIRTH DATE May 25, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Tripoli , Libya