Mohamad Asfari

Mohamad Asfari
nation	Syria
birthday	February 22, 1983
societies
2015-2016	1. PBC Erfurt
2016–	PBC swords 87
Medal table
Syrian championship 3 ×   ×   × West Asian Championship 2 ×   ×   ×

Mohamad Asfari (born February 22, 1983 ) is a Syrian pool player from Aleppo .

Career

Mohamad Asfari started playing billiards in a club run by his parents . From 2011 to 2013 he was Syrian champion . At the 9-ball world championship in 2011 he lost his opening match 6-9 against the Spaniard Francisco Sánchez . He then defeated the Saudi Arabian Omar al-Omari 9-0 before being eliminated by a 5-9 defeat against Hsu Kai-lun . In 2012 and 2013 he won the West Asian Championship .

During the civil war in Syria in 2013 Asfari fled to Germany via Turkey , Greece , Macedonia , Serbia and Croatia . After fleeing for two months, he first lived in refugee accommodation in Heiligenstadt , and later moved to Dortmund .

In the 2015/16 season he started playing billiards at the 1st PBC Erfurt . His first major success in Germany was winning the Thuringian state championship in the 14/1 endless discipline in April 2016. In the final, he defeated Ernst Schmidt with 125: 90. Since 14/1 is hardly widespread in Syrian billiards, he had only gained his first competitive experience in this discipline a few weeks earlier on his league debut.

Team career

Asfari was a Syrian international before fleeing to Germany.

In the 2015/16 season he played with the second team of the 1st PBC Erfurt in the association league. For the 2016/17 season he moved to PBC Schwerte 87 , with whose second team he plays in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Web links

• Mohamad Asfari at azbilliards.com
• Mohamad Asfari on the website of the German Billiard Union
• Mohamad Asfari on the German Tour website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Dötsch: PBC Schwerte promotes integration at the pool table. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Ruhr Nachrichten , December 23, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Ted Lerner: Happy to be alive! (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association , archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 . 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.   
3. ↑ Ted Lerner: Losers feel the squeeze. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 . 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.   
4. ↑ Ted Lerner: That winning filipino Smile! (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 . 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.   
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Erfuter Mohamad Asfari dethrones the permanent winner. In: pbc-erfurt.de. 1. PBC Erfurt , accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ronny Rejke: High- class 14/1 final at the state championship in Gera. In: thueringerbillardverband.de. Thuringian Billard Association, April 25, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
7. ↑ Jens Lohse: Ernst Schmidt from PBC Gera is defeated in the final. In: gera.otz.de. Ostthüringer Zeitung , April 26, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
8. ^ National championship men 14/1 2015/16. In: tbv.billardarea.de. Thuringian Billiard Association, accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
9. ^ Association league pool 2015/16 - player list. In: tbv.billardarea.de. Thuringian Billiard Association, accessed on January 11, 2017 .  
10. ↑ 2nd Bundesliga Pool 2016/17 - player list. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on January 11, 2017 .