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Place of birth
  
2005–2007
  
Mtibwa Sugar

Weight
  
68 kg

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.73 m


Number
  
7

Role
  
Footballer

Playing position
  
Name
  
Nizar Khalfan

Date joined
  
2006


Date of birth
  
(1988-06-21) 21 June 1988 (age 27)

Current teams
  
Tanzania national football team (Midfielder), Young Africans S.C. (#16 / Midfielder)

Nizar Khalfan Goal For Whitecaps


Nizar Khalfan (born 21 June 1988) is a Tanzanian footballer who last played professionally for Young Africans SC in the Tanzanian Premier League in 2013.

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Early career

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Khalfan started playing football in his hometown of Mtwara with a youth team called Score FC. As a student Khalfan attended Ligula Primary School and Ocean Secondary School in Mtwara.

Club

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Khalfan began his career with Mtibwa Sugar FC. He then joined the Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Tadamon for the 2007–08 season. In January 2008 he left Al Tadamon for Lebanese club Tadamon Sour, but soon returned to the Tanzanian Premier League with Moro United. He joined Canadian side Vancouver Whitecaps FC on 22 August 2009. He played nine games for the Caps in their successful 2009 season and signed a contract extension to play with the team in 2010. He scored his first goal for the Whitecaps on 12 June 2010 in a game against the Austin Aztex. On 9 February 2011 signed a new one-year contract for the 2011 Major League Soccer season. Khalfan was waived by Vancouver on 23 November 2011, and was selected in the MLS Waiver Draft by Philadelphia Union. The Union released him three months later prior to the 2012 season.

International

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Khalfan was formerly a member of the Tanzania national football team. He played in five of Tanzania's qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring in the 4–1 victory over Mauritius on 6 September 2008. He also scored the game-winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Burkina Faso at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar-es-Salaam on 14 June 2007.

International goals

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The following information is valid up to 11 November 2011.


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References

Nizar Khalfan Wikipedia


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