Hussein Yasser Mohamady Abdelrahman (

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: حسين ياسر محمدي عبد الرحمن; born 9 January 1984) is a Qatari

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who plays as a

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and winger for Egyptian side Wadi Degla.

Personal life

Yasser was born in Doha, Qatar to an Egyptian family. His father was a footballer in Egypt during the 1970s. He transferred to Qatar in the 1980s to play with

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, before making the transition to coach in 1994. He is registered by FIFA as a Qatari footballer. His brothers are also footballers. His youngest brother, Ahmed Yasser, plays for the Qatar Under-20 team.

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, his younger brother, is a former national player and currently plays for

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. His wife, Angie, is a Belgian national. In 2005, she gave birth to their son Younis. He was set for an imminent return to the

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in 2012, but his wife refused to return to Egypt due to the

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, and he subsequently stayed in Belgium for an additional year.

Club career

Manchester United and Royal Antwerp

Yasser's first professional club was

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, for whom he signed in 2002.Royal Antwerp F.C. – Hussein Yasser
He was suggested to the club by

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, who was then coach of the Qatar national team. He was soon farmed out to

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on loan in order to achieve a Belgian passport and qualify for a British work permit as an EU national. However, the agreement was terminated after two years, although he did manage to get a Belgian passport.Lierse SK – Lierse get Hussein Yasser

AEL Limassol

Manchester United sold Yasser to Cypriot club

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in 2004. He left after just one season with the club, citing family problems.

Al-Sadd

After a short time with

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club AEL Limassol in 2004–05, Hussein returned to Qatar, playing for

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, winning the

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and the Heir Apparent Trophy.

Manchester City

In August 2005, Manchester City manager

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signed him on the recommendation of former City player

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, who played with Yasser in Qatar. However, Yasser made only one first team appearance, in a

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match against

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. He was released in January 2006. Afterwards, he stated that leaving City was "the biggest mistake of his life".

Back to Qatar

In 2006–07, after departing Manchester City, he signed with his previous club,

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, for one season.

Sporting Braga

During the summer of 2007, Hussein signed a deal with Portuguese club

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. He had been convinced to join the side by his teammate

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, who also made a similar transition from Al Rayyan to Braga in 2007. He became the first Qatari to play in the

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. On 4 October 2007, he scored his first goal with his new team in UEFA Cup in a 4–0 win against Swedish side Hammarby.

Moving to Egypt

In May 2008, Hussein joined

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of Egypt on a three-year contract. He is legally considered an Egyptian player in Egypt, despite being registered by FIFA as a Qatari player, because he is also an Egyptian citizen. Thus, he was not considered part of Al Ahly's foreign player quota. Out of favour for most of the season, he mutually terminated his contract with Al Ahly on 27 January 2010 and paid $300,000 as a compensation. Hours later, he signed a contract for three-and-a-half years with local rivals

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. He showed very good form and was highly praised by Zamalek coach,

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. He scored his first goal against

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. He scored his second goal against his former club, Al Ahly, in the Cairo Derby which ended in a 3–3 draw. He also scored a goal in the first seconds of a match between Al Ahly and Zamalek in the Egyptian Cup that ended 3–1. He would duplicate his achievement one year later by once again scoring in the derby against his former club, thus breaking a new record by scoring three goals in three matches played against Al Ahly. After a long legal battle with Zamalek, which involved the club dragging Hussein to

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, due to the fact that he signed with Belgian club

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when his contract was valid until 2014, he finally escaped Zamalek in the summer. The main cause of his departure from Zamalek was delayed payments.

Lierse

Yasser signed a two-year contract for Lierse on 11 August 2011. He made his league debut on 22 October in a match against

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after coming on as a substitute for Gonzague Vandooren. During his tenure with Lierse, he was Qatar's highest paid athlete, earning $500,000 annually. Lierse decided not to renew his contract and he was released in the summer of 2013.

Return to Q-League

After his contract with Lierse expired, he signed a one-year contract with

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on 10 July 2013.

Return to Egypt

In July 2017, it was announced that Yasser signed with Egyptian club Wadi Degla. He had not played for a club since July 2016 when he parted ways with Al Wakrah.

International career

Yasser played for Qatar's youth teams from the age of 11. He played in the 2007 Gulf Cup, held in the

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in late January. Qatar team did not win, but Yasser impressed many. There was a request for him to enter one of the Emirati clubs, but he said that he still had a contract with Al Rayyan and was not thinking far into the future. He was called up to the Qatar squad for the

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, held on home soil. He featured in the hosts' first game against

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, but was substituted later on as his team lost 2–0. He was an unused substitute for Qatar's other two group games against China and Kuwait in which they emerged victorious. He was later kicked out of the Qatar squad because he missed training and displayed a poor attitude.Yahoo.com – World Football – Hussein Yasser kicked out by Qatar
/ref> He has not been called up to the Qatar squad since being excluded apart from one game that September.

Honours

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: 2000–01 *

: 2008–09, 2009–10 * CAF Super Cup: 2009

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