Jiloan Hamad

Jiloan Hamad
Hamad in the jersey of Hammarby IF (2018)
Personnel
birthday	November 6, 1990
place of birth	Baku ,  Soviet Union
size	170 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2002-2007	BK Forward
2008	Malmö FF
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2013	Malmö FF	126 (22)
2014-2017	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	15 0(1)
2014-2017	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II	6 0(0)
2015	→  Standard Liège  (loan)	6 0(1)
2017–	Hammarby IF	36 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2006-2007	Sweden U-17	9 0(4)
2007-2009	Sweden U-19	17 0(2)
2009–2012	Sweden U-21	28 0(2)
2011-2013	Sweden	6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 9, 2018

Jiloan Mohammed Hamad (born November 6, 1990 in Baku , AsSSR , Soviet Union ) is a Swedish football player of Kurdish descent. The midfielder , who has both Swedish and Iraqi nationality, is under contract in Croatian with HNK Gorica and has been an Iraqi international since 2019 .

Career

Beginning in Sweden

Hamad, whose Kurdish parents had fled from Ranya to Baku , said he was born in prison. The family settled in Sweden in 1992 . Jiloan Hamad's father, Mohammed Hamad, was a guerrilla fighter with the Kurdish Peshmerga for fifteen years ; Among other things, he fought against Saddam Hussein .

Jiloan Hamad started playing football at BK Forward from Örebro . Together with goalkeeper Dejan Garaca , he moved from the club's youth team to the youth department of Malmö FF at the end of 2007 . Initially, he played in the club's U-21 team and was only used in test matches for the men's team. In July of that year he sat on the bench in the Allsvenskan for the first time in the game against GIF Sundsvall . As a substitute, he made his debut in September in the 4-0 defeat in the away game against IF Elfsborg in the top division. In the course of the following season he fought his way to a regular place in midfield and thus also played his way into the U-21 team .

In the 2010 season , Hamad played 27 of the 30 possible league games alongside Daniel Andersson , Wilton Figueiredo , Daniel Larsson and Ulrich Vinzents . With three goals and five assists he was involved in winning the Lennart Johansson Cup for the Swedish national champions. In autumn, when he missed qualifying for the 2011 U-21 European Championship with the U-21 national team against the Swiss U-21 national team in the play-offs , senior national coach Erik Hamrén nominated him for the opening international matches in January of the following year .

On January 19, 2011, he made his debut in Cape Town in a 2-1 win against Botswana , when he came on for Guillermo Molins in the 72nd minute of the game. In the 1-1 draw against South Africa in Nelspruit , he played for 90 minutes. Shortly before, he had extended the term of his contract with Malmö FF by two years. In the following season briefly slowed down by minor injuries, he remained a regular in both the club and junior national team.

In 2012, Hamad was again a member of the national team, who won the opening international matches on January 18 and 23 against Bahrain and Qatar 2-0 and 5-0. In the following season in 2012 he established himself in the midfield of Malmö FF. With six goals this season and nine assists, he was involved in the success of the club, which qualified third in the table for the Europa League . In addition, he led the U-21 selection team as captain through the qualification for the U-21 European Championship 2013 , in which the team qualified for the play-off games. There she missed the finals due to two defeats against Italy . In January 2013 he was again part of the squad for the senior national team on their annual January tour. In the two tournament games for the King's Cup in Chiang Mai ( Thailand ), in the 4-1 win on penalties against North Korea on January 23 and in the 3-0 win against Finland on January 26, 2013, he contributed to the tournament victory. Also in the championship he contributed to winning the championship again with eight goals this season .

Continuation in Germany

Hamad has been eligible to play for Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim since January 1, 2014 . In October 2013 he signed a contract valid until June 30, 2017. He made his Bundesliga debut on January 25, 2014 (18th matchday) in the 4-0 defeat in the away game at 1. FC Nürnberg , in which he played 90 minutes. After Hamad was initially unable to assert himself in Hoffenheim, he was loaned to Standard Liège on January 31, 2015 until the end of the season in the Belgian Pro League . Returning to Germany, he scored his first Bundesliga goal with the opening goal in the 40th minute for the Bundesliga opener on January 23, 2016 (18th matchday) in a 1-1 draw in the home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Return to Sweden

In February 2017 he moved back to Sweden on a free transfer and joined the first division club Hammarby IF . Hamad signed a two-year contract with an option to extend it for another year.

successes

Malmö FF

• Swedish champion : 2010 , 2013

Web links

Commons : Jiloan Hamad  - Collection of Images

• Jiloan Hamad in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jiloan Hamad in the database of svenskfotboll.se

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jiloan Hamad. Retrieved January 13, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Footballer Jiloan Hamad: Matches, biography, achievements, fan club. Retrieved January 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ TSG 1899 Hoffenheim: Jiloan's travels. Retrieved January 13, 2020 (German). 
4. ↑ mff.se: "Två unga talanger klara för Malmö FF" ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 9, 2011) 
5. ↑ svenskfotboll.se: "Herr: Gerndt och Svensson segerskyttar mot Botswana" (accessed on February 9, 2011)
6. ↑ fotboll.expressen.se: "Glädjebesked för MFF: Hamad stannar" ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 9, 2011) 
7. ↑ Achtzehn99.de: "Sweden's national player Jiloan Hamad changes to TSG" (accessed October 30, 2013)
8. ↑ TSG 1899 Hoffenheim: TSG borrows Hamad and Biteco , January 31, 2015, accessed on February 1, 2015.
9. ↑ kicker online, Nürnberg, Germany: Hamad closes the chapter Hoffenheim . In: kicker online . ( kicker.de [accessed on February 7, 2017]).
10. ↑ TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Fußball-Spielbetriebs GmbH (ed.): JILOAN HAMAD CHANGES TO HAMMARBY IF. In: TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. February 7, 2017, accessed February 7, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Editor / Hammarby Fotboll (ed.): Jiloan Hamad klar för Bajen. In: Hammarby Fotboll. February 7, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2017 (Swedish).