Obaidulla Karimi

Obaidulla Karimi
Personnel
birthday	December 21, 1979
place of birth	Kabul ,  Afghanistan
size	173 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	SC Hamm 02
	Hamburger SV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
until 2001	Hamburger SV II
2001-2002	SC Forward Wacker 04	4 (0)
2002-2003	Altona 93	14 (1)
2003-2004	SV Lurup	12 (2)
2004-2008	Eintracht Norderstedt	28 (4)
2008-2009	SC Concordia Hamburg	10 (1)
2009-2011	Hamm United FC
2011–2012	HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst
2012	Bramfelder SV
2013-2014	TuS Hamburg
2014	Störtebeker SV
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2003-2008	Afghanistan	15 (3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2008/09 2 As of July 1, 2010

Obaidulla Karimi (born December 21, 1979 in Kabul ) is an Afghan football player .

Club career

Karimi came to Hamburg in 1990 and played in the D-Jugend at SC Hamm 02 in the district of the same name in the Hanseatic city. After playing in the youth team of Hamburger SV , he joined the upper division SC Vorwärts-Wacker 04 in 2001 . He was unable to take advantage of an offer from 1. FC Köln due to multiple metatarsal fractures. Between 2002 and December 2008 he played for Altona 93 , SV Lurup , Eintracht Norderstedt and SC Concordia Hamburg before signing with Hamm United FC in January 2009 . After two and a half years he left the club and played the 2011/12 season at HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst .

International career

Midfielder Karimi has played 13 games for the Afghan national soccer team since 2003 and scored the first goal of his country's 2010 World Cup qualifying match against Syria on October 26, 2007 .

Web links

• Die Welt : A Hamburger as an Afghan Football Hero January 13, 2008
• NDR : Report and interview , May 26, 2008
• Obaidulla Karimi in the database of transfermarkt.de