Khader Yousef Abu Hammad ( ar, خضر يوسف; born 6 October 1984) is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

playing for Tarji Wadi Al-Nes of the

West Bank Premier League The 2010–11 season marked the creation of the first professional league in the territories and saw high-profile signings for many clubs. Most notably Fadi Lafi (Hilal Al-Quds), Hernán Madrid (Wadi Al-Nes), and many Arab citizens of Israel w ...

as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

. He received his first national team cap for Palestine in 2008 against Jordan in the first FIFA-sanctioned match held in Palestine since the 1930s. He has since played for Palestine at the 2010 West Asian Football Federation Championship, the qualifying rounds of the

2010 Challenge Cup The 2010 Challenge Cup (also known as the Carnegie Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 109th staging of the most competitive European rugby league tournament at club level and was open to teams from England, Wales, Scotland, France and ...

2012 AFC Challenge Cup The 2012 AFC Challenge Cup was the fourth edition of the tournament, an international football competition for Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member nations that are mainly categorized as "emerging countries" in the defunct Vision Asia progra ...

, and in 2014 World Cup qualifying.

International career

International goals

:''Scores and results list Palestine's goal tally first.''

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* * 1984 births Living people Palestinian footballers Palestine international footballers Taraji Wadi Al-Nes players Al-Faisaly SC players West Bank Premier League players Palestinian expatriate footballers Palestinian expatriate sportspeople in Jordan Association football midfielders 2015 AFC Asian Cup players {{Palestine-footy-bio-stub