Hawar Mulla Mohammed

Hawar Mulla Mohammed Taher Zebari (Kurdish هاواری مهلا محهمهد; Arab هوار ملا محمد, Hawar Mulla Muhammad DMG; born June 1, 1981 in Mosul ) is an Iraqi football player of Kurdish origin. On his shirt is always his first name ( Hawar ), because he wants to be called by the commentators by his first name. The latter is common in the Arab football. He is the older brother of Halgurd Mulla Mohammed, who also plays football professionally.

Career

The left midfielder who can also be used as a left winger, his career began in 1998 at the then second division side FC Mosul, before he moved to his ascent to the Iraqi top club Al- Quwa al - Dschawiya and there in both 2000 and 2001, respectively Iraqi Vice-Champion been. After he again Iraqi champions in 2005, Muhammad changed the first time abroad and joined the Lebanese champions Al - Ansar on, in which he only played for one season before in July 2006 assisted by former Iraqi national team coach Bernd Stange club he Apollon Limassol moved to Cyprus. After playing there until January 2007, he was loaned out to Al Ain Club. In the 2007 /08 season he played at Al -Khor in Qatar.

For the 08/09 season he moved back to Cyprus, this time to Anorthosis Famagusta. On 16 September 2008 Hawar was substituted during the match between Anorthosis and Werder Bremen in the 46th minute and was thus the first Iraqi football player who played in the Champions League. On October 2, 2008, the second round of the CL 2008/09 season, he scored against Panathinaikos Athens and was thus the first Iraqi who scored a goal in the Champions League.

In the 2009/10 season he played for Persepolis, his contract was terminated in June 2010. Since then he has the Iraqi first division club FC Arbil under contract.

National

In the Iraqi national team, he announced on August 31, 2001 in Manama in the 0-1 defeat against Saudi Arabia his debut. In 2004, he took on both the Asian Cup (4 games, 1 goal ) as well as at the Olympic Games (6 games, 2 goals) part. In 2007 he played in the Gulf Cup (3 games, 2 goals) and on the Asian Cup (6 games, 1 goal and a goal in a penalty shootout in the semifinal against South Korea, and the submission to the only goal in the final against Saudi Arabia). With the selection of his country Hawar was 2007 Asian champion.