Mohammad Al-Shamlan (born 26 December 1972) is a
Bahraini football coach. Besides Bahrain, he has managed in Pakistan.
Leading the
Bahrain Olympic Team to the
2010 Asian Games
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, he left them after a dismal campaign which saw them fail to progress past the group stage.
Was denied entry into
Palestine
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by
Israel to join his team in the
2014 Palestine International Championship
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for some days and was forced to sit out of their first game.
Career
He sent 5 goalkeeping coaches to License B training courses in
Bahrain when managing
Pakistan and was the only foreign coach to deliberately quit the
Pakistan job.
Pakistan National Team
Mohammad Al-Shamlan was designated as manager of
Pakistan in 2013, asking for a six-month buffer period in order to yield positive results. As their manager, he tried to utilize
Pakistan's football talent
but failed and quit the job in summer 2015, joining
Riffa SC in the
Bahraini Premier League.
With Al-Shamlan as coach,
Pakistan failed to progress to the second round of the
2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
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.
Pakistan Under 23's
Blamed for unsatisfactory results for the
Pakistan U-23's in the
2016 AFC U-23 Championship
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qualifying stages and losing all matches, he was backed by the
Pakistan Football Federation.
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Men's association football defenders
Bahraini football managers
Bahraini expatriate sportspeople in Pakistan
Expatriate football managers in Pakistan
Bahrain men's international footballers
Bahraini men's footballers
Manama Club (football) managers
Bahraini expatriate football managers
Al-Riffa SC managers
Hidd SCC managers
Bahraini Premier League managers
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