Emirati professional football player For other people with the lapp name, see Ahmed Khalil ( disambiguation )
Ahmed Khalil Sebait Mubarak Al-Junaibi ( Arabic : أحمد خليل سبيت مبارك الجنيبي ; born 8 June 1991 ) is an Emirati football player who plays as a forward for Shabab Al Ahli and United Arab Emirates national team.

In 2006, Ahmed won the 2006 GCC U-17 Championship with UAE U17, in which he was clear scorer with five goals. late in the lapp years, he joined the first team. The following season with Al-Ahli, Ahmed won his first club honor, the President Cup, and was the top scorer with four goals. In 2008, Ahmed won Super Cup and his beginning Pro-League 2008–09, and with UAE U20 won the AFC U-19 Championship 2008, and was named player of the tournament and the top scorer with four goals. He was named the most promise Arab Player of the year by Al-Ahram and Al Hadath magazines and besides asian Young Footballer of the Year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2009, Ahmed led UAE U20 to the Quarter-finals in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, [ 6 ] and scored two goals in the tournament, and was named for the second consecutive time Al-Ahram Most bright Arab player of the Year [ 7 ] and campaigner of the Asian Young Footballer of the year for two times. [ 8 ] In 2010, Ahmed continued his outstanding performance, by leading UAE Olympic football team. to win the 2010 GCC U-23 Championship by scoring five goals in the tournament and win the acme scorer, [ 9 ] and for the first ever football flatware decoration in UAE history at the asian Games [ 10 ] and scored three goals in the tournament. He was named the Best Young Athlete Player of the year by Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Ahmed won the asian Footballer of the class in 2015 after leading his club to the final examination of the AFC Champions League and UAE to the third-place in the 2015 AFC asian Cup .

early life [edit ]

Ahmed was born on 8 June 1991 in Sharjah, descended from a syndicate of footballers. His forefather, Khalil Sebait, is a early player for an erstwhile football club during his time in Kuwait and his brothers Fahd, Fouad ( Retired ), Faisal, Fathi, Mohamed, and finally Ahmed, all of whom played for Al Ahli. [ 14 ]

Club career [edit ]

Al Ahli [edit ]

Ahmed started his career in the Red Fort at the age of eight, [ 14 ] and included in the youth teams until he reached the first team, in the middle of the 2006–07 temper under french coach Alan Michel [ 15 ] On 13 May 2007, ( at 16 years ) in 89 min and 3 secant, Ahmed scored his beginning goal for the club and in the league, in a 4–1 victory over Al Wahda. [ 14 ] [ 16 ]

2009–10 season [edit ]

On 18 March 2010, Ahmad scored his first hat-trick of the season against Al-Nasr SC. The equal ended a 4–2 gain for Al Ahli. [ 17 ] On 30 March 2010, against Al-Hilal in the AFC Champions League, Khalil scored a goal in the 42nd minute, before the end of the inaugural half. The crippled ended 3–2 to Al-Hilal. [ 18 ]

Negotiations with Portsmouth [edit ]

On 24 June 2009 news spread that Khalil will move to the Premier League after what Sulaiman Al-Fahim said that Portsmouth is in indigence the services of Khalil. [ 19 ]

2010–11 season [edit ]

On 26 August 2010, Ahmed start the season with a 2–0 defeat against Al Dhafra in his first match. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] On 2 September 2010, Ahmed scored his first goal in this temper in a 4–1 victory over arch rivals Al Wasl. [ 22 ] His goalscoring rivulet ended after this match. On 24 September 2010, Ahmed assisted teammate Ahmad Khamis against Al Jazira which ended in a 2–2 draw, [ 23 ] He once again assist teammate Ahmad Khamis to score a goal in a 3–1 gain against Dubai on 15 October 2010. [ 24 ] After his absence from the scoring for a five games he back to score against Al Sharjah with a loose kick on a 2–1 gain. [ 25 ] In the last match in 2010 he assisted teammate Pinga in a 1–0 gain against Baniyas. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] His beginning goal in 2011 came against Al Jazira with a penalty kick on a 5–1 aside personnel casualty. [ 28 ] He continued his goalscoring in the adjacent regular against Dubai on a 2–1 away loss. [ 29 ] After two games without goalscoring, he scored the bind goal 1–1 against Al Sharjah in a 2–3 away victory. [ 30 ]

2011–12 season

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Ahmed started the season with Al Ahli by beating Kazma 1–0 in the first branch of the GCC Champions League Semi-final. [ 31 ]

Al Jazira [edit ]

Starting from summer 2017, Ahmed joined Al Jazira Club on a free transfer deal. [ 32 ]

International career [edit ]

Ahmed is one of the few who have played for 3 national team at the lapp time, ( U-20, U-23 and UAE ). He has been playing for the U-20 since he was barely 15 in 2006, and has made over 70 appearances for UAE at junior levels ( U-17, U-19, U-20 and U-23 ), deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as 13 appearances for the senior team. The begin of Ahmed with national teams was with under-17 by winning the 2006 GCC U-17 Championship in the Saudi Arabia. And he won the Golden Boot after scoring 5 goals in 5 matches of 5 Uae ‘s matches in the tournament. In 2008, in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, with under-20, he was separate of a team that won the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship and was a gene by scoring two winning goals in the final against Uzbekistan. He was named Player of the tournament and awarded the Golden Boot with four goals. A year late, he led the under-20 to the quarter-final in 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and he scored two finish, one against Honduras with a free kick in the 41st minute, and one against Venezuela in the 83rd minute a fall from teammate Ahmed Ali. possibly his most successful year was the 2010, in which he led the Olympic team to win the 2010 GCC U-23 Championship and was the peak scorer with five goals of 4 matches. After merely two months, he came back to lead the Olympic team for the first ever football flatware decoration in UAE history at asian Games, and scored three goals, one against Bangladesh in the 3–0 victory and two in a 0–3 victory over Uzbekistan .

2010 AFC U-19 Championship [edit ]

On 4 October 2010, Ahmed played against Japan and scored a last-minute draw finish but the match ended in 2–1 loss, In second match was against Jordan ended 0–0, In his third and concluding Group match, Ahmed scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win against Vietnam. In the quarter-finals, against Australia with the score at 1–0 for Australia, he won a punishment and turned the meet to draw 1–1, again he turn the match to a 2–2 describe in the last minutes, the peer went to extra times but ended with a 4–2 win. Ahmed scored six of his side ‘s seven tournament goals, an amazing feat that cemented him as the runner-up for the tournament Golden Boot .

2011 AFC asian Cup [edit ]

On 11 January 2011, Ahmed played his first official match in international rival in UAE 0–0 draw with North Korea, he tried to help the attack to score but could n’t, and Al Kathiri came on as a substitute for Ahmed in the 77th minute. [ 33 ] In his second game against Iraq, his shape was excessively bad and the match ended in a 1–0 loss. On the third and last group stagecoach match UAE were eliminated from the asian Cup with a 3–0 loss against Iran. [ 34 ] Ahmed failed to make an affect in the asian Cup ; his performance was so disappointing and did not score any goal. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ]

2012 Summer Olympics [edit ]

He was included in Mahdi Ali ‘s police squad to participate in 2012 Summer Olympics in the nation ‘s first gear appearance. He played his first base match against Uruguay ; however, the match ended 1–2 in favor of Uruguay. He besides played UAE ‘s adjacent matches against Great Britain and Senegal which ended 1–3 and 1–1. UAE finished at the bed of the group and Khalil failed to score in the tournament .

2015 AFC asian Cup [edit ]

Khalil was named in United Arab Emirates ‘ final team for 2015 AFC asian Cup, held in Australia. He started in UAE ‘s opener match against Qatar and scored two goals at their 4–1 win. He scored the first goal when Qatar was led the game 1–0 and scored the second 20 minutes by and by. At the end, he was named as valet of the match and is the second top scorer of the tournament behind his teammate Ali Mabkhout .

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification [edit ]

On 3 September 2015, Khalil scored four goals, in a 10–0 defeat of Malaysia in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier. [ 38 ]

career statistics [edit ]

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As of 17 May 2017.[39][40]
Club Season League Cup1 Gulf Asia Club World Cup Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists
Al Ahli 2006–07 4 4 2 — — — — 4 4 2
2007–08 14 4 4 4 5 2 — — — 18 9 6
2008–09 6 2 3 3 0 1 — 4 1 0 — 13 3 4
2009–10 18 11 9 3 0 1 — 6 2 0 0 0 0 27 13 10
2010–11 18 5 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 — — 21 5 3
2011–12 23 10 3 3 2 0 — — — 26 12 3
2012–13 25 8 4 2 1 0 — — — 27 9 4
2013–14 23 15 6 4 2 1 — 6 1 0 — 33 18 7
2014–15 25 11 9 3 5 1 — 13 5 2 — 41 21 12
2015–16 10 11 8 2 2 1 — 4 2 1 — 16 15 10
2016–17 19 12 4 1 1 0 — 3 0 0 — 23 13 4
Total 185 93 55 25 18 7 3 0 0 36 11 3 0 0 0 249 122 65
Al Jazira 2017–18 2 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Total 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Career total 187 93 55 25 18 7 3 0 0 36 11 3 0 0 0 251 122 65

1Other tournaments include the President Cup and Etisalat Cup, Etisalat Super Cup

International [edit ]

As of 29 November 2019[41]
United Arab Emirates national team
Year Apps Goals
2008 7 0
2009 5 1
2010 5 3
2011 12 6
2012 3 0
2013 13 8
2014 15 5
2015 13 14
2016 11 6
2017 7 2
2018 6 1
2019 8 2
Total 105 48

International goals [edit ]

As of 29 January 2019
Scores and results list the United Arab Emirates’ goal tally first.[41]

Honours [edit ]

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