Noor Sabri

Nur Hassan Sabri ʿ Abbas (Arabic: نور حسن صبري عباس, DMG Nūr Ḥasan ʿ Abbās Sabri, according to the English transliteration often Noor Ali Sabri; born June 6, 1984 in Baghdad ) is an Iraqi football player.

In youth Sabri was striker, but with a sudden blocking of the goalkeeper his team and given the fact that you had already changed three times and thus no new goalkeeper more could enter, he decided to play the game as a goalkeeper to end. He surprised everyone by showing outstanding performance as a goalkeeper. Since then, he acted as a goalkeeper. In 2001, he played for Al- Zawraa from his native city of Baghdad in 2003, he moved to Al- Quwa al - Dschawiya also a Baghdad football club. In the summer of 2006 he went to Iran and played at Mes Kerman Kerman. There followed a six-month engagement at the Iraqi club Duhok SC before he signed a contract with Al- Talaba in the summer of 2008. After one season at Al- Quwa al - Dschawiya he moved in the fall of 2010 to Zaxo SC.

National

At the age of 16 years Sabri was nominated by the then Iraqi coach Adnan Hamad for the national team, was there but not used. With the U-20 team, he won the Asia Cup in the same year; at this tournament came in the finals Sabri as a replacement for the suspended Ali Ahmed used. His international debut for the senior team, he was on 22 July 2002 in a 2-1 victory over Syria in Baghdad. In 2004 he took part in the Olympic Games.

Sabri was with his countryman Asian champions in 2007, the Confederations Cup in 2009 however, he was behind the posed Mohammed Kassid only the number two and so came to no use.