Full name Ayman Hussein Years Team Current team Al Naft | Playing position Place of birth Iraq Name Ayman Hussein | |
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Date of birth (1996-03-22) March 22, 1996 (age 19) | ||
IRAQ vs U A E 1 0 AYMAN HUSSEIN GOAL 5 09 2017
Ayman Hussein Ghadhban Al-Mafraje (Arabic: أيمن حسين غضبان المفرجي, born March 22, 1996) is an Iraqi professional footballer who currently plays forAl Shorta in the Iraqi Premier League and the Iraqi national football team. Aymen started his career at Kurdish club Duhok SC, before moving to Al-Naft.
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- IRAQ vs U A E 1 0 AYMAN HUSSEIN GOAL 5 09 2017
- Club career
- Al Shorta
- International career
- Iraq national team goals
- Personal life
- References
Club career
Aymen started his career in Duhok and transferred to Al-Naft in 2015. His breakthrough season came in the 16/17 season for Al Naft where he scored 12 goals in 10 games launching Al Naft to the top of the league, he was set to join Al Khor in the January window before an injury prevented him. The Injury kept him sidelined all the way till March. Al Naft continued on their impressive set of results and ended up finishing as the league runners up, which is their best ever result.
Al Shorta
Hussein signed for Iraqi giants Al Shorta on August 22. to replace Marwan Hussein
International career
Aymen first represented Iraq in 2015, playing for the U23 Iraqi team. He was called up to the 2016 AFC U-23 Asian cup in Qatar. He scored the winning goal in the third place playoff match which won Iraq the bronze medal and sent them to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games Aymen was injured in a friendly match against Syria, preventing him from going to the Olympics. The following year, Aymen was present at the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship qualification, he scored 5 goals in the first match against Afghanistan. He also scored another goal against Saudi Arabia, to ensure that Iraq won all three games and qualified for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship.
On August 26, 2015, Aymen Hussein earned his first international cap, playing against Lebanon in a friendly match. He scored his first goal against the UAE on September 5, 2017 in a world cup qualifying match.
Iraq national team goals
Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.Personal life
Aymen Hussein has faced many hardships in his life. His father, an officer in the Iraqi Army, was murdered on duty by an Al Qaeda terrorist attack, his brother was kidnapped by ISIS and his whereabouts are still unknown, and the player and his family became Internally displaced within Iraq.