Kani Taher

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Kani Taher
Kani Taher (2016) .jpg
Kani Taher at the start of the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2015
Personnel
Surname Kanishka Taher
birthday April 4, 1991
place of birth Kabul ,  Afghanistan
size 182 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1997-2006 VfB Korschenbroich
2006-2008 Rheydter SV
2008-2009 Fortuna Dusseldorf
2009-2010 FC Wegberg-Beeck
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010–2012 SG Kaarst 50 (16)
2012-2013 SV Uedesheim 33 0(2)
2013-2015 Alemannia Aachen II 30 0(3)
2015-2017 SC Kapellen-Erft 60 0(3)
2017-2019 VfL 08 Vichttal 55 0(5)
2019– 1. FC Dueren 14 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 Afghanistan U-23 3 0(0)
2015– Afghanistan 20 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 7, 2020

2 As of January 7, 2020

Kanischka "Kani" Taher (born April 4, 1991 in Kabul ) is a German - Afghan soccer player . The student of industrial engineering at RWTH Aachen University has been playing for the first division club 1. FC Düren since the 2019/20 season and is the current Afghan national team player .

Life

In 1991, when Taher was less than twelve months old, the political turmoil forced him to leave Afghanistan. His politically persecuted parents fled with the baby from the civil war to Korschenbroich in the Lower Rhine area at the gates of Düsseldorf. He played football for the first time on the football field of the local asylum seekers home. Taher has four younger sisters who are all active in sports.

During the international trip , Taher returned to his home country for the first time after fleeing in 1991 on the way to the South Asian Championship in Thiruvananthapuram .

Career

Club career

youth

Taher began playing football in Germany in 1997 in the youth team at VfB Korschenbroich on the Lower Rhine. He later played as a midfielder at the Rheydter Spielverein, in the U18 of Fortuna Düsseldorf and in the U19 of FC Wegberg-Beeck .

Career in the big league

From the U19 of FC Wegberg Taher first moved to the district division SG Kaarst in 2010. There he was used as an offensive player. He was noticed by a scout during a test match of SG Kaarst at the then club division SC Düsseldorf-West . Then the Afghan moved in 2012 to the upper league promoted SV Uedesheim . He made a significant contribution to the club's relegation.

Due to his studies at RWTH Aachen University , Taher decided to switch to Alemannia Aachen in summer 2013 . There he played for a year and a half for the U23 team in the Middle Rhine League . When this junior team was restructured into a U21 team, he joined the Lower Rhine upper division SC Kapellen-Erft during the winter break of the 2014/15 season . Since his move, Taher has been part of the regular formation in Kapellen and has played almost all competitive games over the full distance. In the summer of 2017 he moved back to the Aachen region, to the newly promoted upper division club VfL 08 Vichttal . There they managed to stay up in the first year. After another year, Taher moved to the first division club 1. FC Düren in summer 2019 .

National team

Kani Taher (left) during an international match

At a tournament of the sports organization “Afghan Eurosport” in Cologne in 2013, in which Afghan teams from all over Europe competed, Taher caught the attention of the manager of the Afghan national team, Ali Askar Lali . The midfielder first wore the national shirt for the U23 selection in September 2014 at the Asian Games in South Korea . There he played all three games over the full distance. In March 2015 he took part in an A-team training camp in Dubai for the first time under coach Slaven Skeledžić . Then Taher was nominated for World Cup qualification and made his competitive debut against Japan .

Taher took part in the 2015 South Asian Championship . In the first two group matches against Bangladesh and Bhutan , he played over 90 minutes. After the midfield director was not used in the third group match against the Maldives , Taher ran again in the semifinals against Sri Lanka . He scored one goal and set up another. In the final against India , Taher and Afghanistan lost 2-1 after extra time .

Kani Taher was nominated in March 2016 for Afghanistan's last two World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Singapore. His team lost 5-0 to Japan, followed by a 2-1 win over Singapore five days later. Taher was in the starting line-up in both games. With the victory against Singapore, Afghanistan, with nine points from the group stage of the World Cup qualifying and as one of the two best fourth-placed finishers, reached the next step towards qualifying for the 2019 Asian Cup. Afghanistan has never before succeeded in this.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National player Taher: Oberliga and World Cup qualification . fussball.de, accessed December 30, 2015
  2. ↑ From Kaarst to Kabul . fupa.net, accessed December 30, 2015
  3. ↑ The dream of the big football stage aachener-nachrichten.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
  4. ↑ Career: First Kaarst, then Kabul . wz.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
  5. ↑ "Every training session was a little step backwards for me" . aachener-zeitung.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
  6. ↑ From the Lower Rhine to the Afghan national team . welt.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
  7. ↑ [1] , accessed on May 4, 2016
  8. ↑ [2] , accessed on May 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Taher, Kani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taher, Kanishka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Kabul , Afghanistan