Ahmad Abdul-Jabar

Ahmad Abdul-Jabar
Personal information
Full name	Ahmad Al-Abduljabar Jassim
Date of birth	8 January 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Iraq
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Al-Karkh SC (Manager)
Youth career
1989–1995	Al-Karkh
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1997	Al-Karkh
1997–2002	Al-Zawraa
2002–2004	Al-Shamal
2004–2006	Al-Zawraa
2006–2008	Al-Yarmouk
2008–2009	Duhok
2009–2010	Baghdad
2010–2011	Al-Zawraa
2011–2012	Zakho
2012–2015	Al-Karkh
International career‡
1998–2009	Iraq
Managerial career
2018	Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker)
2019	Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Caretaker)
2019	Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya
2019	Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya (Assist. coach)
2019–2020	Al-Karkh (Assist. coach)
2020–2021	Al-Karkh
2021	Al-Karkh (Assist. coach)
2021–2022	Al-Sinaat Al-Kahrabaiya SC
2022–	Al-Karkh
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 July 2019

Ahmad Abdul-Jabar (Arabic: احمد العبدالجبار جاسم) (born 8 January 1978) is an Iraqi former Iraq national football team football player who is currently manager of Al-Karkh SC.

Ahmad, known as Al-Alemane ('The German') by his teammates, due to his fair skin and hair. He bore a slight resemblance to Brazilian Juninho of Middlesbrough and Atletico Madrid.

The qualified engineer also had the diminutive Brazilian's same penchant for taking on defenders with mazey runs and is often employed to support the front two. In 1996, he moved to Al-Zawraa from Al-Karkh, a club he joined at the age of 11 and flourished under coaches Amer Jamil and then Adnan Hamad.

It was Hamad who encouraged him to use his imagination more on the field, by thinking of himself as a fox; cunning and clever.^[1]

Manager career

Ahmad started his coaching career by becoming the assistant for Abbas Attiya at the start of the season 2018–2019, then led the team for a while after the leaving of Attiya. Ahmad then also became the assistant of Mudhafar Jabbar Tawfik in the same season. After leaving of Tawfik, Ahmad came back again and led the team with a great and massive win over Naft Maysan FC in Maysan Stadium, which led to the appointment of him as the head coach on 3 February 2019.

Managerial statistics

As of 3 July 2022

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Al-Sinaat (Caretaker)		7 November 2018	29 November 2018	4	1	2	1	025.00
Al-Sinaat (Caretaker)		23 February 2019	3 March 2019	1	1	0	0	100.00
Al-Sinaat		3 March 2019	24 July 2019	19	6	6	7	031.58
Al-Karkh SC		2 December 2020	18 July 2021	45	14	14	17	031.11
Al-Sinaat		3 December 2021	19 February 2022	9	3	4	2	033.33
Al-Karkh SC		21 February 2022	""Present""	19	8	8	3	042.11
Total				97	33	34	30	034.02