Salah Assad

Salah Assad
Personal information
Full nameSalah Assad
Date of birth13 March 1958
Place of birthLarbaâ Nath Irathen, Algeria
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Playing positionForward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1975–1982RC Kouba–(–)
1982–1983FC Mulhouse26(13)
1983–1984Paris SG9(1)
1985–1986FC Mulhouse55(15)
1986–1988RC Kouba–(–)
National team
1978–1989Algeria68(18)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Salah Assad (Arabic: صالح عصاد‎; born 10 June 1958 in Larbaâ Nath Irathen) is a former Algerian football striker and manager.

He played for RC Kouba, where he won an Algerian tournament in 1981 and one African Cup Winner's Cup, and in France for FC Mulhouse and Paris Saint-Germain FC. For Algeria national football team, he participated at the 1980, 1982, and 1986 African Cup of Nations, 1980 Summer Olympics,[1] and at two edition of FIFA World Cup in 1982 and 1986, scored two goals.

Assad currently holds the record of most scored goals at the World Cup for Algeria, which were both scored in the 1982 World Cup.[2]

Honours

Personal

With clubs

With the Algerian national team

References

  1. ↑ "Salah Assad Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
  2. ↑ http://soccernet.espn.go.com/worldcup2010/team/history/_/id/624/algeria?cc=5739&ver=globa

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