Thaer Bawab

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Thaer Fayed Bawab (Arabic: ثائر فايز البواب‎, born March 1, 1985 in Amman, Jordan) is Jordanian football striker of Palestinian and Lebanese descent who currently plays for CE L'Hospitalet and the Jordan national football team.

[edit] Club career

His family moved to Catalonia, Spain when he was a kid. He played for the youth teams of UE Cornellà[1], until he moved to Real Madrid in 2003, when he was just 18 to play with the Juvenil A side, and at the end of the season he had 30 goals to his name. At 2004 he signed a professional contract with Real Madrid, worth 54000 dollars a year, and the club agreed to pay a college scholarship for him, and he went on to play with the third team, Real Madrid C. At that time talks had started about him, where people compared his style of play to Zinedine Zidane (though Thaer is a striker and Zidane is midfielder). And the first team coach Mariano García Remón thought about bringing him to the first team, but then he cancelled this idea saying he dosn't want to put pressure on the youngster, who was just 19. This summer, he was promoted to the second team.

He didn't play a single match for Real Madrid Castilla, and after finding he had no chance with the first team, he moved to Madrid's main rival FC Barcelona during the winter transfer window. He went on to play with the reserves FC Barcelona B, which were relegated that same season to Spanish fourth division.