Adnan Mohammad Yaqoob (born July 2 1996) is a professional

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who plays as a winger for VB 1968. He previously played for

Lyngby BK Lyngby Boldklub () is a Danish professional football club founded in 1921. It is based at Lyngby Stadion in Kongens Lyngby, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, a northern suburb of Copenhagen. From 1994 to 2001 the club was known as Lyngby FC. The club ...

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and Norwegian club

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. Born in Denmark, he represents

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at international level.

Club career

Nordsjælland

Mohammad was permanently moved to the first team squad in the summer 2015, at the age of 18 and got his contract extended. On 27 September 2015, Mohammad made his Superliga debut in a match against AGF, which FCN won 2–0, where he came on the pitch in the 85th minute, replacing Marcus Ingvartsen.

Arendal

After only 11 league games for FCN, Mohammad moved to the Norwegian club

on 30 March 2017. Mohammad played his first match for the club on 9 April 2017 against

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. After only 3 months, his contract was terminated and Mohammad revealed that he found it hard to settle down in a new country and that he wanted to get back to

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Helsingør

On 13 July 2017, Mohammad signed for newly promoted

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-side

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Lyngby

On 1 September 2018,

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announced the signing of Mohammad on a four-year deal. He reached promotion to the Danish Superliga during his first season at the club.

Gambling addiction and contract termination

On 19 November 2019, with three years left of his contract, Lyngby announced that Mohammad would leave the club at the end of the year by mutual agreement for personal reasons. In January 2020 it was revealed that Mohammad had borrowed money from several teammates in order to cover his betting debt, which was the reasons behind him being released by Lyngby. Mohammad had borrowed such a big sum that he could not recompense them, which caused the rest of the team to turn against him. Furthermore, Lyngby's head coach, Christian Nielsen, had loaned him 5,500 DKK and Mohammad had also contacted younger players in the squad via social medias, asking to borrow money. One of the youth players had allegedly borrowed him around 50,000 DKK, after Mohammad had claimed that he was going to use the money to pay for a wedding. In February 2020, Mohammad participated in a mini-documentary about his release and gambling addiction, where he said: ''My life is ruined. You can't get any deeper than this, but it's my own fault. I don't want pity from people because I've cheated them and lied to them, but I'm going to make up for it if I just get a second chance and get my career going again.'' Mohammad also said that at the moment, there had been no interest for him from any other clubs and that he agreed to part ways with Lyngby, even though he had the right to stay for the last three years of the contract.

Ishøj

On 3 March 2019,

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from the

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confirmed, that Mohammad had signed for the club. Mohammad had been training with the club since his departure from Lyngby.

GVI

In the summer 2021, he joined fellow league club GVI.

KFUM

However, already two months later - on 1 September 2021 - Mohammad joined the

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club

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. On 2 March 2022, the club confirmed that they had terminated Mohammad's contract after failing to get him fit since his arrival.

VB 1968

On 11 March 2022, Mohammad signed with

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club VB 1968, after being on a training camp with the club in

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for 14 days.Profileret seriehold: Vi får Adnan Mohammad
bold.dk, 11 March 2022 The head coach Mohamad El Faour, declared his intention to first play Adnan as a

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, in order to steadily recover his previous Superliga form. He was also placed on a strict diet in order to recover his fitness and lose weight.

International career

Adnan Mohammad was selected by

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for

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but could not feature because his visa was not issued by the Bangladeshi authorities. He finally made his debut for the

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on November 16, 2018 in a 2-1 friendly loss against

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in which he assisted the only goal scored by

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Career statistics

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International

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mohammad, Adnan 1996 births Living people Footballers from Copenhagen Pakistani men's footballers Pakistan men's international footballers Danish men's footballers Danish expatriate men's footballers Danish people of Pakistani descent Danish Superliga players Danish 1st Division players Norwegian First Division players FC Nordsjælland players FC Helsingør players Lyngby Boldklub players Arendal Fotball players Men's association football forwards Ishøj IF players KFUM Roskilde players Denmark Series players Pakistani expatriate sportspeople in Norway Danish expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate men's footballers in Norway Pakistani expatriate men's footballers Sportspeople involved in betting scandals VB 1968 players