Ali al-Habsi

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Ali al-Habsi
Ali Al Habsi portrait, Wigan Athletic v Birmingham, 19 March 2011.jpg
Ali al-Habsi (2011)
Personnel
birthday December 30, 1981
place of birth Muscat ,  Oman
size 194 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2002 Al-Midhaibi
2002-2003 Al-Nasr
2003-2005 Lyn Oslo 62 (0)
2006-2011 Bolton Wanderers 10 (0)
2010-2011 →  Wigan Athletic  (loan) 34 (0)
2011-2015 Wigan Athletic 91 (0)
2014 →  Brighton & Hove Albion  (loan) 1 (0)
2015-2017 Reading FC 81 (0)
2017-2019 al-Hilal 34 (0)
2019– West Bromwich Albion 0 (0)
2019– West Bromwich Albion -U23 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2002-2018 Oman 135 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 23, 2019

2 As of November 19, 2019

Ali Abdullah Harib al-Habsi ( Arabic علي بن عبد الله بن حارب الحبسي, DMG ʿAlī bin ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥārib al-Ḥabsī ; * December 30, 1981 in Muscat ) is an Omani football goalkeeper .

Club career

Oman and Norway

The 1.94 m tall al-Habsi began his career in his homeland with al-Midhabi, where he played from 1998 to 2002. Then the goalkeeper moved to Al-Nasr and played there for a season. In 2003, al-Habsi moved to Lyn Oslo , becoming the first Omani football player to play in Europe. In 2004 he was voted Norway's Goalkeeper of the Year. By 2005 he was in the Norwegian box 62 times before he moved to Bolton in 2005.

England

The 2010/11 season spent al-Habsi on loan from league rivals Wigan Athletic , where he was able to prevail as a regular goalkeeper. After the season, he was voted Wigan Athletic's Player of the Year by fans for his good performance . On July 4, 2011, al-Habsi signed a four-year contract in Wigan . On October 23, 2014 he was loaned to Brighton & Hove Albion for a month and only came here for one assignment. From 2015 to 2017 Al-Habsi was under contract with Reading FC .

National team

Al-Habsi has been a member of the Omani national team since 2001, and he also took part in the 2004 Asian Football Championship in China. al-Habsi was voted the best goalkeeper of the tournament at the 2007 Golf Cup , where he reached the final with the Oman national team. At the Asian Cup in the same year he was eliminated with the Omani team in the preliminary round. In 2009 he won the golf cup and was conceded without a goal throughout the tournament. He is currently the captain of the national team.

successes

Private life

  • Al-Habsi is a practicing Muslim .
  • He is married and has a daughter.
  • Before starting his professional career, Al-Habsi was a firefighter at Muscat Airport . In an interview with Al Jazeera Sports, he stated that his previous job taught him "patience, hard work and patriotism". If he hadn't made his breakthrough in football, he would probably have remained a firefighter by his own account.
  • al-Habsi is a co-founder of the non-profit organization Safety First , which has set itself the task of reducing car accidents through education in Oman.

Web links

Commons : Ali al-Habsi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wiganlatics.co.uk (English) ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on June 11, 2011
  2. ↑ Wigan sign goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi from Bolton Wanderers (BBC Sport)
  3. ^ Barney Ronay: Ali al-Habsi of Wigan Athletic is a goalkeeper with a difference , The Guardian . December 9, 2011. Retrieved December 26, 2012. 
  4. ^ AMF interview.
  5. ↑ Mrudu Naik: Sports stars blow the bugle of road safety . In: Times of Oman . May 23, 2012. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved on June 11, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME al-Habsi, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Al-Habsi, Ali Abdullah Harib
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Omani soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Oman