Mohammad Yousef Kargar

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Mohammad Yousef Karger
Personal information
Full name	Mohammad Yousef Karger
Date of birth	(1962-05-11) 11 May 1962
Place of birth	Afghanistan
Club information
Current club	Afghanistan
National team^‡
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1976–1984	Afghanistan	??	(??)
Teams managed
Years	Team
2002–2008	Afghanistan (assistant)
2008–2009	Afghanistan
2010–	Afghanistan
† Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 March 2009

Mohammad Yousef Karger (Persian: محمد یوسف کارگر‎) was one of the most successful sportsmen in Afghanistan.

Career

His family set up Afghanistan’s first ski resort, and he became the national champion in 1978 at the age of 16. He stopped skiing due to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.^[1] During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the Afghanistan national football team. He coached Afghan youth teams after becoming the senior manager of the Afghanistan National Team in 2001.^[2] He led the Afghanistan National football team to their most successful era winning the SAFF cup in 2013 and coming runners up in 2011.

References

v t e Afghanistan national football team – managers

AFF Selection Committee (1941–03) Efimov (1978) Obermann (2003) Akbarzada (2003) Lali (2003–05) Stärk (2005–08) Kargar (2008–)

Persondata
Name	Kargar, Mohammad Yousef
Alternative names
Short description	Afghan footballer
Date of birth	1962
Place of birth	Afghanistan
Date of death
Place of death

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