Rabee Allafi is a Libyan footballer, who scored the first goal for the

Libya national football team The Libya national football team ( ar, منتخب ليبيا لكرة القدم) represents Libya in men's international association football and it is controlled by the Libyan Football Federation. The team has never qualified for FIFA World Cup ...

in the post-

Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

era.Libya beats Mozambique 1-0 in African qualifier
/ref> During the Libyan civil war, the national team played in a

2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification This page details the process of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification phase. Forty-six African nations, including hosts Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, entered the competition. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea automatically qualified as host count ...

game against Mozambique in Cairo, wearing a white kit, under a new flag and new anthem. Allafi scored the first goal for Libya which enabled Libya to beat Mozambique. Libya then qualified to the

2012 Africa Cup of Nations The 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, also known as the Orange Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, was the 28th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the football championship of Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football ( ...

after a goalless draw with at Zambia.

References

Living people Libyan men's footballers Year of birth missing (living people) Al Ahli SC (Tripoli) players Men's association football players not categorized by position Libyan Premier League players {{Libya-footy-bio-stub