Mustafa Karim

Mustafa Karim Abdullah (Arabic: مصطفى كريم عبدالله‎) (born July 21, 1987 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi footballer. He currently plays for Al-Shorta in the Iraqi Premier League. He plays as striker, and is known for his ability to score with both feet.

Career: Youth, Olympic and National Team

Youth Team

In 2005, Mustafa Karim took part with Iraq Youth team in the AFC Youth Championship Qualification, scored the qualifying goal against Kuwait and sent Iraq to the AFC Youth Championship 2006, but he couldn't join the team due to injury.

Olympic Team

In 2006, Mustafa Karim won the Silver Medal in the Asian Games with Iraq Olympic team. Mustafa Karim scored 4 goals in the Asian Games, 2 goals against Indonesia and one goal against Singapore in the 1st Round, while his fourth goal was the most precious goal against Malaysia, Iraq was leading the match 3-0 against Malaysia and Iraq needed a 4-0 win to qualify to the quarterfinals as the best second place runner, Mustafa Karim substituted in and scored the 4th goal from the first touch to sent Iraq Olympic team to the quarterfinals.

In 2007, Iraq Olympic team failed to qualify to the 2008 Olympic Games and finished behind Australia by 1 point, Mostafa Karim played most of the Olympic Games qualifications matches as substitution, and scored only 2 goals.

Iraq National Team Debut

In 2008, Mostafa Karim made his debut to the Iraq national team in a friendly match against Jordan On 24 January 2008.

Clubs Achievements

2004-2005

• On his first League ever Mustafa Karim won Iraqi League Top scorer award with 16 Goals, and he was only 18 years old.

2005-2006

• On his second League Mustafa Karim was the Iraqi League Top scorer runner-up with 14 Goals, and he was only 19 years old.

2006-2007

• Mostafa Karim won his first League title with Arbil FC.

2007-2008

• Mustafa Karim join the Egyptian giant club Ismaily SC
• Voted as best Foreign player in Egyptian Premier League 2007.

2008-2009

• Egyptian Premier League Top scorers runner-up with 11 Goals, 1 goal behind the Top scorers.
• Egyptian Premier League runner-up with Ismaily SC, had to play a play-off match against Al-Ahly to decide the champion.

International goals

Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	29 September 2010	King Abdullah Stadium, Amman	Palestine	1–0	3-0	2010 WAFF Championship
2.	29 September 2010	King Abdullah Stadium, Amman	Palestine	2–0	3-0	2010 WAFF Championship
3.	1 October 2010	King Abdullah Stadium, Amman	Iran	1–1	1-2	2010 WAFF Championship
4.	16 July 2011	Amman International Stadium, Amman	Jordan	1–1	1-1 (4-5 pk)	2011 Fochs Int. Football Tournament
5.	29 February 2012	Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha	Singapore	5–1	7-1	2014 FIFA World Cup qual.
6.	24 June 2012	Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, KSA	Lebanon	1–0	1-0	2012 Arab Nations Cup
7.	27 June 2012	Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, KSA	Egypt	1–1	2-1	2012 Arab Nations Cup
8.	3 July 2012	Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Stadium, KSA	Morocco	1–2	1-2	2012 Arab Nations Cup

Honours

Country

• 2006 Asian Games Silver medallist.
• 2012 Arab Nations Cup Bronze medallist
• 2013 World Men's Military Cup: Champions

Club

• Iraq Super League (2004-2005) top scorer.
• * Voted as best Foreign player in Egyptian Premier League 2007.

External links

• Mostafa Karim's League Statistics on Ismaily Official website
• Profile on goalzz.com
• Mustafa Karim Compilation

Awards
Preceded by Abandoned due to War	Iraq League top scorer 2004-05	Succeeded by Sahib Abbas
Preceded by Ali Mohammed	Runner-up Iraq League top scorer 2005-06	Succeeded by Sahib Abbas

v t e Iraq squad – 2011 AFC Asian Cup 1 Mutashar 2 Ali Karim 3 Bassim 4 Munir 5 Nashat 6 Abdul-Amir 7 Emad 8 Samer 9 Karim 10 Younis 11 Hawar 12 Gassid 13 Karrar 14 Shakir 15 Rehema 16 Samal 17 Abdul-Zahra 18 Mahdi 19 Ayad 20 Khalid 21 Ibrahim 22 Raad 23 Attiya Coach: Sidka