Salah Falah ( ar, صلاح فلاح) was a Lebanese
football
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player, coach, and
referee
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. Falah played as a
midfielder
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for the
Lebanon national team in their
first official international match.
Playing career
Falah played for
Hilmi-Sport,
DPHB
Association Sportive DPHB,) known as Al Sikkat Al Hadid Wal Marfa' in Arabic ( ar, نادي السكة الحديد والمرفأ, lit=Railway and Port Club),) was a multi-sports club based in Forn El Chebbak, a district in Beirut, Lebanon.
D ...
, and
Sagesse during the 1940s.
In 1934 the midfielder captained the
Lebanon national team in their first unofficial match, against Romanian club
CA Timișoara
Clubul Atletic Timișoara was a football club based in Timișoara, western Romania. It was founded in 1902 and dissolved in 1936.
History
In the Józsefváros neighborhood of Temesvár, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, on April 26 1902, a ...
(T.A.C.). Falah also represented Lebanon in their
first official international match, in 1940 against
Mandatory Palestine
Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...
.
Managerial and referee career
In 1946–47 Falah coached Sagesse while a player.
He was a
referee
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during the 1960–61 season.
See also
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List of Lebanon international footballers born outside Lebanon
The Lebanon national football team has used footballers born outside Lebanon throughout its history with varying success.
As a result of the dominance of clubs founded by the Armenian diaspora in Lebanon, between the 1940s and 1960s the nation ...
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Men's association football midfielders
Lebanese footballers
Lebanese Premier League players
AS Hilmi-Sport players
AS DPHB players
Sagesse SC (football) players
Lebanon men's international footballers
Lebanese football managers
Lebanese Premier League managers
Sagesse SC (football) managers
Lebanese football referees
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