Mohammad Nasser Afash ( ar, محمد عفش; born 31 October 1966) is a Syrian former

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 ...

who played as a

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Club career

Afash is one of the most notable Syrian football exports. Beginning his career with

Al-Ittihad Al-Ittihad (Arabic: الاتحاد "The Union"), sometimes transliterated as Al-Etihad or Al-Ettihad may refer to: Sports Football Libya *Al-Ittihad Club (Tripoli), a football club based in Bab Ben Gashier * Al Ittihad Gheryan, a football club bas ...

, he moved to Greece in 1993 to play for Proodeftiki before joining Ionikos in the 1996–97 season. He returned to Al-Ittihad in 2004.

International career

Afash made seven appearances for the senior Syria national football team in qualifying matches for the

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and 1998 FIFA World Cup. He was a member of the Syria squad at the

1996 AFC Asian Cup The 1996 AFC Asian Cup was the 11th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international association football, football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The finals were held in the United Arab Emirates be ...

finals. He also played for Syria at the

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and

1991 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship was the eighth staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, an international football competition organized by FIFA for men's youth national teams, and the eighth since it was established in 1977 as the FIFA ...

International goals

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* 1966 births Living people People from Aleppo Sportspeople from Aleppo Association football midfielders Syrian footballers Syria international footballers Syrian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Greece Al-Ittihad Aleppo players Proodeftiki F.C. players Ionikos F.C. players 1996 AFC Asian Cup players Syrian Premier League players 20th-century Syrian people {{Syria-footy-bio-stub