Soccer South Asian Championship 2003 / Afghanistan

This article covers the Afghan national soccer team at the 2003 South Asian Cup . Afghanistan took part in the South Asian Cup for the first time. Afghanistan was invited at the request of the Asian Football Confederation , as they were not a member of the South Asian Football Federation at the time. In January / February 2002, the originally planned period of the tournament, Afghanistan was not yet on the list of participants.

Squad

Surname	society	birth date	Games	Gates
goal
Abdul Salem Jamshid		Nov. 30, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
Mohammad Nader Aimi		03rd Mar 1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
Ahmed Zia Azimi		Nov 30, 1976	3	0	1	0	0
Ahmed Rahil Fourmoli		Nov. 30, 1971	3	0	0	0	0
Najib Naderi	Altona 93	Feb 22, 1984	3	0	0	0	0
Omar Nazar	VfL Lohbrügge	0Nov 1, 1978	3	0	0	0	0
Aziz Rohallah		05th July 1980	3	0	0	0	0
Omar Azhar			0	0	0	0	0
midfield
Nasir Safi	SV Darmstadt 98 amateurs	Jan. 21, 1983	3	0	0	0	0
Najibullah Zarimi		Nov 30, 1978	3	0	0	0	0
David Yaqoubi	SV Lurup Hamburg	December 17, 1982	2	0	0	0	0
Bashir Ahmad Saadat	Maiwand Kabul	Dec. 27, 1981	3	0	0	0	0
Farid Ahmadi			2	0	0	0	0
Elyas Manochehr			1	0	0	0	0
Wahidullah Nazari		July 12, 1984	1	0	0	0	0
Nazib Nadvi		0Jan. 1, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
attack
Obaidullah Karimi	SV Lurup Hamburg	Dec 21, 1979	3	0	1	0	0
Raza Razai		Feb 16, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
Ali Danish			1	0	0	0	0
Bashir Kamrani	Maiwand Kabul	05th Mar 1980	1	0	0	0	0
Sayed Tahir Shah	Shahid Balkhi	0Feb 5, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
Trainer
Mir Ali Asghar Akbarzada	Head coach

Afghan team games

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Pakistan	4: 1	9
2	India	5: 2	4th
3	Sri Lanka	3: 3	4th
4th	Afghanistan	0: 6	0

January 10, 2003
Sri Lanka	-	Afghanistan	1-0
January 12, 2003
India	-	Afghanistan	4-0
January 14, 2003
Afghanistan	-	Pakistan	0: 1

The game against Sri Lanka was Afghanistan's first official international match since September 20, 1984, when they lost 6-1 to Jordan .

Web links

• Squad list and games on RSSSF
• The 2003 Afghan National Team on National Football Teams
• The SAFF-Cup 2003 on afghanland.com