Ashad Ali

Ashad Ali
Personal information
Full name Ashad Ali
Date of birth (1986-09-14) 14 September 1986
Place of birth Male, Maldives
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
Maziya S&RC
Number 9
Youth career
FB Boys
Lagoons
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 Victory
2010–2012 VB Sports Club
2013 BG Sports[1] (6)
2013–2014 Maziya S&RC
2015– 2015 New Radiant
2016 – Maziya S&RC
National team
2007- Maldives 28 (2)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 June 2014.
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2014

Ashad Ali, (Adey, Adubarey) (born 14 September 1986) is a Maldivian footballer nicknamed "Adey" or "Adubarey", who plays as a forward for Maziya S&RC. He is a member of the Maldives national football team.[2] He was the Maldivian National Team Captain in the most recent bangabandhu gold cup 2016, held in Bangladesh, Dhaka. Where he led his team to the Semi Finals.

Penalty feinting incident

Adey gained global notability after simulating a fall prior to the run up of a penalty shootout in the third place match of the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup against Afghanistan, deceiving goalkeeper Mansur Faqiryar.[3] The match was won 7–8 to the Maldives.[4]

A similar move was pulled off by Thomas Müller during the 2014 FIFA World Cup (Germany v Algeria). In the 88th minute, Thomas Müller deceptively stumbled while lining up the kick, before getting up and running through the Algerian wall. A few days later, Müller admitted to a German TV reporter that the free kick was a designed play.[5]

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