Mohammad Soufi

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Mohammad Soufi
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nation SyriaSyria Syria Germany
GermanyGermany 
birthday May 10, 1993
society

2016– PBC swords 87
Medal table
Asian Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Pool world rankings

Highest WRL place 192 (Jul-Nov 2011)

Mohammad Khaled Soufi (born May 10, 1993 ) is a Syrian pool player .

Life

Soufi grew up in Latakia . He fled Syria in 2013 because of the civil war . He finally came to Germany , where he now lives in Rostock .

Career

At the age of eight years Soufi began playing billiards . In 2009 he took part in the U21 World Snooker Championship , but retired with only one win in the preliminary round. At the 9-Ball World Championship in 2011 he lost his opening game against Allan Cuartero and then in a competitive match 8: 9 against Qatar's Abdulatif Fawal . At the 8-Ball World Cup in 2012 , he was eliminated in the preliminary round without a win after losing 7-0 to Jordanian Noor al-Jarrah and Hong Kong's Lee Chen Man . In 2012 he was Asian champion . He was also a Syrian champion.

After his escape, Soufi started playing billiards again at PBC Schwerte 87 and took part in the German Tour from 2016. In January 2017 he reached the final of the German Tour 2016 final after defeating former German champions Thomas Damm and Sascha Jülichmanns as well as Farhad Shahverdi . In the final, however, he lost 4: 7 to the Swiss Dimitri Jungo . In August 2017 he took part in a Euro-Tour tournament for the first time, the Dutch Open 2017 . In Leende he defeated Mario He and Harald Stolka , among others , before he was eliminated in the round of 32 7: 9 against Christian Sparrenlöv . At the following Euro Tour tournament, the Klagenfurt Open 2017 , he reached the round of 16, in which he had to admit defeat to the Bosnian Sanjin Pehlivanović 8: 9 after a 6: 3 lead.

Team career

In October 2016 Soufi won the bronze medal at the German 8-Ball Cup with the second team of the PBC Schwerte 87 . Since the 2016/17 season he has been playing with the club's first team in the 1st Bundesliga . In his first Bundesliga season, he finished fourth in the individual rankings as the best player in his team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Overbeck: Ekonomopoulos through with minimum effort. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation , August 10, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Rankings. Status: 9-Ball World Championship 2011. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association , archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Thomas Overbeck: Huge surprises dominate day 1 in Klagenfurt. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, October 5, 2017, accessed October 7, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Michael Dötsch: PBC Schwerte promotes integration at the pool table. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Ruhr Nachrichten , December 23, 2016, accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Swiss dominance at the German Pool Masters. In: germantour.net. touch Billard-Magazin, January 10, 2017, accessed on January 12, 2017 .
  6. ↑ 2009 World Under-21 Championship - Men. In: cuetracker.net. Ron Florax, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ted Lerner: The big boys bear down. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, 2011, archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Ted Lerner: Losers feel the squeeze. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, 2011, archived from the original on January 11, 2017 ; accessed on January 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Ted Lerner: You really have to beat Me. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, 2012, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  10. ^ Ted Lerner: Saving the Day for the USA. In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, 2012, archived from the original on January 9, 2017 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Cup team 8-Ball 2016. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Roland Greeting: Cup team with its own laws - Bavarian teams dominate cup event! In: portal.billardarea.de. Deutsche Billard-Union, October 17, 2016, accessed on February 17, 2017 .
  13. ↑ 1st Bundesliga pool 2016/17. In: portal.billardarea.de. German Billard Union, accessed on January 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Soufi, Mohammad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soufi, Mohammad Khaled (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian pool player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1993