Oumed Oukri (

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: ዑመድ ዑክሪ; born 5 October 1990), also spelt as Oumed Oukuri or Omod Okwury, is an Ethiopian professional

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who plays as a

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for Ethiopian Premier League club Hadiya Hossana FC.

Club career

Oumed was born in Gambela National Regional state, one of the federal regions of Ethiopia, which is located in the south western part of Ethiopia near to the border of

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. Oumed has scored three goals for his club,

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in six Ethiopian premier league games that club played this year 2010 (2003 Ethiopian calendar). He is becoming the rising star in the domestic games. Oumed Oukri has been named the Best Sportsman according to the weekly Capital Ethiopia's Top 30 List for the 2003 Ethiopian Calendar. In the summer of 2012, Oumed was transferred to reigning premier league champions,

Saint George S.C. Saint George Sports Club (Amharic: ቅዱስ ጊዮርጊስ ስፖርት ክለብ, ''Kidus Giorgis Sport Club'')'','' otherwise known as Kidus Giorgis, is a professional football club based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They play in the top divisi ...

He scored his first official goal, on 17 October 2012, in a penalty-shootout loss against arch-rivals

Ethiopian Coffee FC Ethiopian Coffee Sport Club ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ቡና ስፖርት ክለብ), otherwise known as ''Ethiopian Buna,'' is a professional Ethiopian football club based in Addis Ababa. They are a member of the Ethiopian Football Federatio ...

. His goalscoring attracted attention of some Egyptian clubs, but St. George declined to release him. In spite of all this, he continued to play well and shared the title of league champions with his team in the 2013–14 season. Consequently, the Ethiopian champions allowed him move to a foreign league. On 21 May 2014, Oumed signed a three-year deal with the Egyptian side

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. However, he transferred to ENPPI in 2015, then he played for El Entag El Harby and Smouha SC. On 16 September 2019, Oumed joined Aswan SC.

International career

Oumed made a debut for Ethiopia on 30 November 2009, in a match against Djibouti, and he immediately scored two goals. The final result was 5–0 for Ethiopia. His third goal came in an African cup qualifiers against

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, in September 2010. Oumed also scored two goals against Malawi and Zambia and two goals against Uganda in the

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tournament, held in

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, Tanzania. In January 2014, coach

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, invited him to be a part of the Ethiopia squad for the

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. The team was eliminated in the group stages after losing to

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, Libya and Ghana.

Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Ethiopia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Oukri goal.''

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* * 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Gambela Region Ethiopian footballers Association football forwards Ethiopia international footballers 2013 Africa Cup of Nations players Egyptian Premier League players Saint George S.C. players Al Ittihad Alexandria Club players ENPPI SC players El Entag El Harby SC players Smouha SC players Aswan SC players Hadiya Hossana F.C. players Ethiopian expatriate footballers Ethiopian expatriate sportspeople in Egypt Expatriate footballers in Egypt Ethiopia A' international footballers {{Ethiopia-footy-bio-stub