Zakaria Yehya Charara ( ar, زكريا يحيى شرارة; born 1 January 1986) is a Lebanese former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Charara started his youth career with

Nejmeh Nejmeh Sporting Club ( ar, نادي النجمة الرياضي, lit=The Star Sporting Club) is a football club based in Manara, a district in Ras Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, that competes in the . The club was established in Beirut in 1945, and ...

on 14 August 1999, before being promoted to the first team ahead of the 2005–06 season. In 2010 he moved to Jordan's Al-Karmel where he played couple of matches. The same year, Charara moved to Al-Shabab in Bahrain. In August 2011, he signed with

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

side

Ermis Aradippou Ermis Aradippou () is a Cypriot professional football club based in Aradippou, a settlement on the outskirts of the city of Larnaca. The club was formed in 1958, and currently plays in the Cypriot Second Division. Ermis' greatest success came ...

for the 2011–12 season. He debuted for Ermis in a 0–0 draw against

Ethnikos Achna Ethnikos Achna Football Club ( el, Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Εθνικός Άχνας), commonly known as Ethnikos Achna, or simply Ethnikos, is a Cypriot football club based in the village of Achna. Founded in 1968, the club current ...

on 10 September. Zakaria joined

2011 Malaysia Super League The 2011 Liga Super Malaysia ( en, 2011 Malaysia Super League) is the eighth season of the Malaysia Super League, the top-tier professional football league in Malaysia.http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/malay2011.html 2011 Liga Super The season was h ...

champions

Kelantan FA Kelantan Football Club ( ms, Kelab Bola Sepak Kelantan) is a Malaysian professional football club based in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The club plays in the Malaysia Super League, the top tier of Malaysian football since 2023. Founded in 1946, the ...

on 6 December 2011, signing a two-year contract. However, due to lack of playing time with Kelantan, Charara went on a loan until the rest of the season to fellow-Malaysian Super League side

Kuala Lumpur FA Kuala Lumpur City Football Club, known simply as KL City FC, is a Malaysian professional football club based in Kuala Lumpur. The club competes in the Malaysia Super League, the top level of Malaysian football, and was founded in 1974 as Feder ...

. He scored his first league goal on 5 May 2012, converting a penalty in a 1–1 draw with

Sarawak FA Sarawak FA State Football Team ( ms, Pasukan Bola Sepak Negeri Sarawak) was a defunct football team which represented the Malaysian region (formerly state) of Sarawak from 1974 to 2020 in the Malaysian football league. It was one of the 14 Mal ...

. Following the 2012 Malaysia Super League, Zakaria re-joined

. He made his debut on 29 September 2012 against Chabab Ghazieh.

International career

Zakaria made his debut for the Lebanon national team in 2009. He scored once, in a friendly against

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. His last match was against

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in 2012.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first.''

Honours

Individual *

Lebanese Premier League Team of the Season The Al-Manar Football Festival () was an event organised by the Al-Manar television station between the 1996–97 and 2018–19 seasons in order to award players, managers, referees and teams who were considered to have performed the best over ...

: 2008–09

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Charara, Zakaria 1986 births Living people Lebanese footballers Footballers from Beirut Association football midfielders Lebanese Premier League players Nejmeh SC players Lebanese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Jordan Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Jordan Expatriate footballers in Bahrain Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain Bahraini Premier League players Expatriate footballers in Cyprus Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Cypriot First Division players Ermis Aradippou FC players Expatriate footballers in Malaysia Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Malaysia Premier League players Kelantan FA players Kuala Lumpur City F.C. players Akhaa Ahli Aley FC players Expatriate footballers in Iraq Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Iraq Safa SC players Sagesse SC footballers Lebanon international footballers Lebanon youth international footballers Jordanian Pro League players Lebanese Second Division players