Liban Abdiaziz Abdulahi (born 2 November 1995) is a professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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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 ...
for
SV TEC
Sportvereniging Tielse Eendracht Combinatie, more commonly known as SV TEC or simply TEC (), is a football club based in Tiel, Gelderland. Formed on 1 June 1924, it plays in the Tweede Divisie, the third tier of the Dutch football league system ...
. Born in Holland, he represents the
Somalia national team.
Club career
Abdulahi made his professional debut in the
Eerste Divisie
The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...
for
SC Telstar on 10 August 2015 in a game against
RKC Waalwijk
RKC Waalwijk () is a Dutch professional football club based in Waalwijk, that is currently competing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie' ('Roman Catholic Combination' in Dutch) and was established as a merger ...
.
In April 2021, he signed with
1. deild karla club
Þór Akureyri
Íþróttafélagið Þór, commonly known as Þór Akureyri, simply Þór or Thór, is a multi-sport club in Akureyri, Iceland. It features departments in Basketball, football, Handball and Taekwondo. Its main rivals is another sport club from A ...
. In 16 league games for Þór, he scored 1 goal.
International career
On 7 December 2019, Abdulahi made his debut for
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
in a 0–0 draw against
Djibouti
Djibouti, ar, جيبوتي ', french: link=no, Djibouti, so, Jabuuti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red ...
in the
2019 CECAFA Cup
The 2019 CECAFA Cup was the 40th edition of the annual CECAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of the national teams of member nations of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA). It took place in ...
.
Personal life
Abdulahi is cousins with fellow Somali international
Ali Abdulkadir
Ali Mohamed Abdulkadir ( so, Cali Maxamed Cabdulqaadir) is a Somali footballer who plays as a forward for Hilltop and the Somalia national team.
Club career
During the 2019–20 Spartan South Midlands Football League season, Abdulkadir made ...
.
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1995 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Haarlem
People with acquired Somali citizenship
Somalian footballers
Dutch footballers
Dutch people of Somali descent
Somalia men's international footballers
Superettan players
Jönköpings Södra IF players
De Graafschap players
Eerste Divisie players
SC Telstar players
HFC Haarlem players
AFC Ajax players
AVV Zeeburgia players
FC Groningen players
FC Volendam players
Koninklijke HFC players
Tweede Divisie players
Þór Akureyri players
FC Locomotive Tbilisi players
Dutch expatriate footballers
Somalian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Sweden
Expatriate footballers in Iceland
Expatriate footballers in Georgia (country)
Somalian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Somalian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
Somalian expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Iceland
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Georgia (country)
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