Kani Taher
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Kani Taher at the start of the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2015
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Personnel | ||
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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 | (2)
2013-2015 | Alemannia Aachen II | 30 | (3)
2015-2017 | SC Kapellen-Erft | 60 | (3)
2017-2019 | VfL 08 Vichttal | 55 | (5)
2019– | 1. FC Dueren | 14 | (1)
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
2014 | Afghanistan U-23 | 3 | (0)
2015– | Afghanistan | 20 | (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
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
- Kani Taher in the database of weltfussball.de
- Kani Taher in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Kani Taher in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ National player Taher: Oberliga and World Cup qualification . fussball.de, accessed December 30, 2015
- ↑ From Kaarst to Kabul . fupa.net, accessed December 30, 2015
- ↑ The dream of the big football stage aachener-nachrichten.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
- ↑ Career: First Kaarst, then Kabul . wz.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
- ↑ "Every training session was a little step backwards for me" . aachener-zeitung.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
- ↑ From the Lower Rhine to the Afghan national team . welt.de, accessed on December 30, 2015
- ↑ [1] , accessed on May 4, 2016
- ↑ [2] , accessed on May 4, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Taher, Kani |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Taher, Kanishka |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Afghan soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kabul , Afghanistan |