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Place of birth
  
Amman, Jordan

Name
  
Abdullah Zema

Current team
  
Jordan (manager)

Role
  
Footballer


Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.78 m

1994–2006
  
Al-Wehdat

Playing position
  
Midfielder

Full name
  
Abdullah Mohamed Abu Zema

Date of birth
  
(1976-04-04) 4 April 1976 (age 39)

Team coached
  
Al-Wehdat SC (Manager, 2013–2015)

Similar People
  
Ra'fat Ali, Amer Deeb, Amer Shafi, Munther Abu Amarah, Faisal Ibrahim

Abdullah Abu Zema is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian descent, He was the head coach of the Kuwait SC.

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Career

Abu Zema officially announced his retirement in playing football at the age of 29 after receiving a strong injury and losing the love of his fans. The mark of his retirement in playing football took place on 1 August 2005 in an international friendly match between his country Jordan and Armenia in Amman, sponsored by Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein. After playing the first five minutes of the match, Abu Zema gave the captain armband to his teammate Haitham Al-Shboul and his #18 jersey shirt to his younger teammate Hassan Abdel-Fattah.

Coaching career

Immediately after his retirement as a football player, Abu Zema became one of the assistant coaches of his national team (2006–09), under head coaches Mahmoud El-Gohary (2006–07) and Nelo Vingada (2007–09) until the Iraqi Adnan Hamad took over coaching the national team. When Dragan Talajić became head manager of Shabab Al-Ordon (2009–10), Abu Zema became his assistant coach ever since then. They both then moved to Abu Zema's home club Al-Wehdat (2010–11). When Ra'fat Ali, one of Abu Zema's companions, took proficiency in Kuwait, Abu Zema and Talajić joined him by coaching his team (2011–12).

Abu Zema had finally become a head coach himself when he began coaching his lifelong club Al-Wehdat in February 2013, succeeding the Egyptian Mohammad Omar who failed to help Al-Wehdat reach the semi-finals of the 2012–13 Jordan Cup losing to Al-Ramtha on penalties in the quarter-finals, and losing to the 2012–13 Jordan league winners Shabab Al-Ordon in the second half of the season. He won the Jordan Premier League with Al-Wehdat in 2013–14 and 2014–15, Jordan FA Cup 2014 and Jordan Super Cup 2014.

In AFC Asian Cups

  • 2004 Asian Cup
  • In Pan Arab Games

  • 1997 Pan Arab Games
  • 1999 Pan Arab Games
  • In Arab Nations Cup

  • 1998 Arab Nations Cup
  • 2002 Arab Nations Cup
  • In WAFF Championships

  • 2000 WAFF Championship
  • 2002 WAFF Championship
  • 2004 WAFF Championship
  • Managerial statistics

    As of 15 November 2016

    References

    Abdullah Abu Zema Wikipedia