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Iraqi football manager and former player (born 1961)
Adnan Hamad Majid Al-Abbassi
(
Arabic
:
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; born 1 February 1961) is an
Iraqi
football
manager
and former player.
Career
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Playing career
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Adnan was born in
Samarra
,
Iraq
, the son of a wealthy land-owning family. Hed started his career with the Samarra in 1975 juniors at the age of 14 before. In 1982 Adnan was called up by the famous Iraq national coach
Wathiq Naji
to join the Salah-Al-Deen club, where he spending only one season with Salah-Al-Deen club which they won the
Iraq Super League
cup of the 1982?83 season.
Yugoslav coach Miodgard Stankovic known as Aba later called the young Adnan into the
Iraq
Under-19 team. later he moved to
Baghdad
and signed for
Al-Zawraa
. In 1984, he was called up by
Ammo Baba
to the Iraq national football team for the 1984
Gulf Cup
. He later went on to make over 20 appearances for the national team winning the 1985
Pan-Arab Games
& and 1985
Arab Cup
. He also played for
Al-Talaba
and
Al-Tayaran
club teams in Iraq.
Managerial career
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After being plagued by injuries during the latter parts of his career, he went into coaching and managed his home club Samarra in a player-coach role in the 1992?93 season. During this time he also managed to score 33 goals for the club. He later became the coach of
Al-Zawraa
and was assistant coach of the Iraq national football team to Yahya Alwan during the
1996 AFC Asian Cup
in the
United Arab Emirates
.
Hamad spent time in Europe studying coaching techniques before coaching abroad in the UAE with Dubai SC. He first coached the Iraq national team in February 2000 and led the team to third place at the 2000
West Asian Football Federation
Championship in
Amman
. He was then replaced by
Milan Zivadinovic
only two months before the
2000 AFC Asian Cup
in
Lebanon
.
Adnan was back as the national coach of Iraq for the second time a year later after Milan Zivadinovic was sacked. Hamad led Iraq to the second round of the
2002 FIFA World Cup
qualifiers before he was replaced by Croatian
Rudolf Belin
after two consecutive defeats to
Bahrain
and
Saudi Arabia
in the opening three matches of the tournament.
His third period as coach of Iraq came in 2002 when he helped
Iraq
to the
WAFF
Championship win in
Damascus
with a dramatic 3?2 win over
Jordan
in extra-time before being replaced with the German
Bernd Stange
. Hamad had a short stint as manager of the Lebanon national team between 22 January 2004 and 8 February 2004.
[1]
He regained his position as coach of Iraq when
Bernd Stange
left in 2004 a year after the
2003 invasion of Iraq
by the
United States
.
He was national coach of
Jordan
between 2009 and 2013. He led them to the quarter-finals of the
2011 Asian Cup
and the play-off round of the
2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
.
On 7 February 2014, Hamad was appointed to coach
Baniyas
in the
UAE Arabian Gulf League
.
[2]
On 6 August 2014, Hamed was appointed to coach
Bahrain
on a two-year contract.
[3]
He later coached
Al-Wehdat
in 2016?2017. On 16 June 2021, he was reappointed as the head coach of Jordan.
[4]
Managerial statistics
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- As of 19 June 2023
Team
|
From
|
To
|
Record
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G
|
W
|
D
|
L
|
Win %
|
Iraq
|
January 2000
|
September 2000
|
7
|
3
|
1
|
3
|
0
42.86
|
Iraq U20
|
November 2000
|
June 2001
|
9
|
4
|
3
|
2
|
0
44.44
|
Iraq
|
January 2001
|
September 2001
|
13
|
5
|
3
|
5
|
0
38.46
|
Iraq
|
January 2002
|
September 2002
|
8
|
8
|
0
|
0
|
100.00
|
Al-Zawraa
|
October 2002
|
March 2003
|
29
|
18
|
9
|
2
|
0
62.07
|
Iraq U23
|
September 2003
|
April 2004
|
16
|
8
|
1
|
7
|
0
50.00
|
Iraq
|
April 2004
|
January 2005
|
18
|
7
|
2
|
9
|
0
38.89
|
Lebanon
|
January 2004
|
February 2004
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
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|
Al-Ansar
|
2005
|
2006
|
23
|
1
|
6
|
16
|
00
4.35
|
Al-Faisaly
|
2006
|
2008
|
100
|
53
|
30
|
17
|
0
53.00
|
Iraq
|
March 2008
|
June 2008
|
8
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
0
25.00
|
Jordan
|
February 2009
|
June 2013
|
68
|
28
|
19
|
21
|
0
41.18
|
Bani Yas
|
February 2014
|
May 2014
|
10
|
2
|
1
|
7
|
0
20.00
|
Bahrain
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August 2014
|
November 2014
|
6
|
2
|
3
|
1
|
0
33.33
|
Al-Wehdat
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June 2016
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May 2017
|
39
|
18
|
15
|
6
|
0
46.15
|
Jordan
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June 2021
|
June 2023
|
23
|
16
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0
|
7
|
0
69.57
|
Total
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377
|
175
|
94
|
108
|
0
46.42
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Honors
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As manager
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Club
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Al-Zawraa
Al-Faisaly
International
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Iraq U20
Iraq
Individual
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External links
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