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Salah Assad
Assad in 1986
Personal information
Date of birth (1958-03-13) 13 March 1958 (age 68)
Place of birth Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Algeria
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position Forward
Youth career
1972–1974 JSM Chéraga
1974–1975 RC Kouba
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1982 RC Kouba / RS Kouba
1982–1983 Mulhouse 26 (13)
1983–1984 → Paris Saint-Germain (loan) 11 (1)
1984–1986 Mulhouse 55 (15)
1986–1989 RS Kouba / R Kouba
1989 JSM Chéraga
International career
1977–1989 Algeria 68 (15)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Salah Assad (Arabic: صالح عصاد; born 13 March 1958) is an Algerian former football player and manager who played as a forward.

Assad was born in Larbaâ Nath Irathen. He played for RC Kouba, where he won an Algerian championship in 1981, and in France for FC Mulhouse. For the Algeria national 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 holds the record with Islam Slimani of most scored goals at the World Cup for Algeria, which were both scored in the 1982 World Cup. Slimani in 2014.[2]

Career

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Assad started playing young with JSM Cheraga and after with RC Kouba. In 1975, he played with the senior team until 1982 and he won the Algerian championship in 1981.

Career statistics

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Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Assad goal.
List of international goals scored by Salah Assad[3]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
113 July 1978Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria Egypt1–11–11978 All-Africa Games
228 October 1978Independence Stadium, Lusaka, Zambia Zambia1–03–0Friendly
329 September 1979Stadion Poljud, Split, Yugoslavia Greece2–02–01979 Mediterranean Games
49 December 1979Stade d'Honneur, Casablanca, Morocco Morocco5–15–11980 Summer Olympics qualification
521 December 1979Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria Morocco3–03–01980 Summer Olympics qualification
619 March 1980Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, Nigeria Egypt1–22–21980 African Cup of Nations
73 April 198119 June Stadium, Oran, Algeria Senegal2–02–0Friendly
830 August 1981Stade du 19 Juin, Oran, Algeria Upper Volta7–07–01982 African Cup of Nations qualification
97 February 1982Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia Tunisia1–01–0Friendly
1010 March 1982March 28 Stadium, Benghazi, Libya Nigeria2–12–11982 African Cup of Nations
1116 March 198228 March Stadium, Benghazi, Tunisia Ghana2–12–31982 African Cup of Nations
1228 April 1982Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria Republic of Ireland1–02–0Friendly
1324 June 1982Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, Spain Chile1–03–21982 FIFA World Cup
142–0
1513 November 1988Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria Mali2–07–0Friendly

Honours

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RC Kouba

Algeria

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ "Salah Assad Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
  2. ↑ "Algeria World Cup History - World Cup 2010 - ESPN Soccernet". Archived from the original on 24 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Salah Assad - International Appearances". RSSSF. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  4. ↑ "Sur les traces de Salah Assad". L'Alsace. Jean-Luc Nussbaumer. 26 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "African Player of the Year 1982". RSSSF. José Luis Pierrend. 14 February 2000.
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