Hussain Hassan Naeem ( ar, حسين حسن نعيم; 19 March 1987 – 13 June 2007) was Lebanese

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who played as a

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. He was killed by a car bomb, alongside other victims, in an assassination attempt on Lebanese politician

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Career

Naeem joined the

Nejmeh Nejmeh Sporting Club ( ar, نادي النجمة الرياضي, lit=The Star Sporting Club) is a football club based in Manara, a district in Ras Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . The club was established in Beirut in 1945, and ...

youth team on 2 November 2001, playing for the first team from 2006 until his death in 2007.

Death

On 13 June 2007, Naeem died from the same car bomb which killed politician

and teammate Hussein Dokmak outside the

Rafic El-Hariri Stadium Rafic Hariri Stadium ( ar, ملعب رفيق الحريري), also known as Al Manara Stadium ( ar, ملعب المنارة, links=no) or Nejmeh Stadium ( ar, ملعب نادي النجمه الرياضي, links=no), is a multi-use stadium in th ...

References

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