Al-Saadi Gaddafi
As- Saadi al - Gaddafi (Arabic الساعدي معمر القذافي, DMG as- Sā ʿ ʿ ammar al - Mu dī Gaddafi, born May 25, 1973 in Tripoli) is a former Libyan footballer and current football functionary and film producer. He is a son of Muammar al - Gaddafi, the former Head of State and Leader of Libya and his second wife Safaja Farkash.
Career as a football player
Gaddafi, who usually acts on the football field as an attacking midfielder, played for a long time as captain of Al -Ittihad in Libya.
For 2003/ 04 Gaddafi moved to Italy's Serie A for AC Perugia. The association thus became the first European professional club in history who had the son of a ( de facto ) leaders in the squad. On 5 October 2003, he was tested positive for doping and banned for three months. His only league game for Perugia, he played on May 2, 2004 compared Juventus, when he entered the game for Jay Bothroyd in the 75th minute.
At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he signed a contract with first division side Udinese Calcio. But even here, things did not go better for Gaddafi; the application on May 7, 2005, compared Cagliari Calcio, where he came into the game for Barreto in the 79th minute, was also his last in Serie A. After a season he left the club again, first played at Al- Jamahiriyah. In January 2007, the Sampdoria midfielder joined. By June of the same year he played, however, no match for the Blucerchiati, which he then left again.
As- Saadi al - Gaddafi also played for the Libyan national team. As the former Italy coach Libya, Francesco Scoglio, Gaddafi made for sporting reasons on the bench, he was released by the Libyan Football Federation.
Gaddafi has repeatedly voted among others in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Libya's Footballer of the Year. However, the political and financial influence of his father gave him in addition to a special treatment in the home - for example conscious Referee wrong decisions in favor of his club Al -Ittihad - his professional engagements in Italy.
Functions in Libya
As- Saadi al - Gaddafi, who is married to the daughter of a military commander who is the president of World Navigator Entertainment, a film production company. Also, Gaddafi club president of Al -Ittihad. He was also vice president of the Libyan Football Federation, Football Federation of Libya. Until October 2003, Gaddafi was also a member of the Presidium of his favorite football club Juventus. This position was guaranteed him because he represented the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company ( Lafico ), which held 7.5% stake in the Italian club.
During the uprising in Libya in 2011, he was commander of special forces and was occupied by the European Union with a travel ban. In Saadi, the change of tactics is to go back to the rebels in eastern Libya were no longer fought with heavy infantry, tanks and armored cars, but with small, fast, agile units. Thus, the government units of Allied fighter-bombers from were barely distinguishable from the rebels, so they were less exposed to attacks.
On September 11, 2011, the Nigerien Minister of Justice stated that Saadi in Niger, the southern neighbor of Libya, is entered. He has filed an application for political asylum. On 29 September 2011 he wrote Interpol wanted list. He is suspected of having enriched themselves illegally in his time as president of the Libyan Football Federation. On November 11, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger him the granted asylum in his country.
In March 2014 his extradition to Libya was known.