Majid Abdullah اسطورة الكرة السعودية ماجد عبدالله |
Table of contents
- Resume
- The beginnings
- Personal life
- Facts
- Quotes, quotes
- Achievements
- Videos and documents
- Sources
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Biography of Majid Abdullah
Majid Abdullah is a former football player who played within the ranks of Al-Nasr Club and the Saudi national team at the center of the heart of the attack.
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His life began sports in 1977 after joining the Saudi Al-Nasr Club, whose father worked in his technical staff. From an educational point of view, he studied primary and middle school at Algiers School, while high school he studied it at Al-Jazeera School and obtained the secondary certificate,
During which he joined the school team where he registered the title of top scorer of the school's course, and later Majid Abdullah participated in the popular neighborhoods team, which was called Al-Itagreement, where he played as a goalkeeper, and then moved to the center of the attack.
Majid Abdullah's personal life
Facts about Majid Abdullah
Majid Abdullah mediated with King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to keep coach Jorge Solari as coach of the Saudi national team, after demands to dismiss him because the Saudi team lost a friendly match against Greece. |
His goal against China in the Asian Cup is one of the most important goals he scored, in which he exceeded three players from the middle of the field and eluded the goalkeeper to score his goal. |
Majid Abdullah's goal against England goalkeeper David Seaman was the first international goal to enter the goal of this famous goalkeeper, and this was at a friendly meeting held in Riyadh in 1988.
Majid Abdullah's most famous sayings
Whoever encourages Al Nasr Club knows Majid Abdullah from his beginnings so far.
— Majid Abdullah
I'm not looking for a position, no benefit, or praising this is my style, and I don't occupy myself with criticism.
— Majid Abdullah
It is important to have communication with the old players. My relationship with Al Nasr is solid and strong and no one shakes it no matter what.
— Majid Abdullah
Achievements of Majid Abdullah
In August 1977, Majid Abdullah joined the junior team to play in the Tabriz International Junior Championship held in Iran, he led his Saudi national team to win second place, and scored seven goals in this tournament in three matches, becoming the top scorer of the tournament.
Majid began his official career with the Saudi team in 1978, at the Asian Games, the Saudi team qualified for the Asian Cup final in 1983, after defeating Nepal, the UAE, Oman and Sri Lanka.
After the team qualified for the cup final and played in a group that includes Kuwait, Qatar and Syria South Korea, Majid had a goal against Korea in the 90th minute, the Saudi team was later able to qualify for the second league to play for the Iran national team.
As for the cup final, the Saudi team played against the China team, in which the Saudi team won 2-0, and one of the goals scored Majid Abdullah in the 46th minute.
In 1988, the Saudi team participated in the Asian Cup, where it played all matches and the Saudi team topped its group for the second league, to meet the Iranian team, where Abdullah scored the only goal in the match in the 16th minute.
Saudi Arabia later played against South Korea in the cup final, the Kingdom won 4-3, and Abdullah successfully carried out his penalty kick, in which the Saudi team won the title for the second time.
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Also in 1988, the Saudi team participated in the Golden Cup Championship held in Australia, during which he played four matches in which he scored two goals, the first of which was against Argentina in the match that ended 2-2, and its second goal against Brazil, which ended 4-1 for Brazil.
Majid Abdullah also participated in the Saudi team 4 times in the World Cup qualifiers, during which he played 20 games and scored 8 goals.
In 1982, Majid played 8 games out of 10 during which he scored 3 goals.
In 1986 and in 1990, he played seven matches, during which he scored two goals, the first against the Syrian national team and the second against the Yemen national team.
In 1994, the Saudi team qualified for the World Cup, Majid Abdullah was the captain of the Saudi national team, where he managed to qualify for the 16th League for the first time in his history.
During this tournament, he could not play in all the entire matches due to injury, in the last match of the Saudi national team from the 16th league and was in front of Sweden, Majid sat on the reserve seats.
As for Majid's achievements with Al-Nasr Club, he played a big role in Al-Nasr Club's achievement of domestic and foreign championships, his team led Al-Nasr to win the league championship for two consecutive years in 1980 and 1981, and Majid Abdullah top scorer of the league three times in a row.
In 1989, Majid had a role in Al-Nasr Club winning the Saudi League Championship, and Abdullah topped the list of scorers for the sixth time.
In 1997, Al-Nasr Club won the Gulf Club Championship, after beating the Kuwaiti Kadhimeh Club, and Majid Abdullah Hadafi topped the tournament with five goals.
In 1998, Majid Abdullah scored his last important goals before retiring in the Asian Club Cup semi-finals against the South Korean Samsung team, won by Al-Nasr team 1-0, Majid Abdullah was then 40 years old.
On May 20, 2008, a ceremony honoring the retirement of Majid Abdullah was held in the presence of 75,000 spectators in a match between Al-Nasr Club and Real Madrid Club, during which Al-Nasr Club won 4-1
Immediately after Majid Abdullah's retirement, he joined Al-Nasr Club as an administrator in which he worked as the general supervisor of the football team, from mid-1998 to 2000, in which the club achieved many championships, including the Asian Super Cup and qualifying for the World Cup for the first clubs held in Brazil at the beginning of 2000.
After Majid appeared as a Riyadh technical analyst in many channels, including Arab Arti TV Radio, Saudi Sports, Abu Dhabi and Line Sport, and a member of the FIFA Expert Committee for Evaluation and Development in Players Affairs,
Majid Abdullah won a large number of titles and records. He won the title of top scorer of the league for a large number of championships, whether local or international, and one of these rankings and titles was the best scorer of the league in the world, and was ranked as one of the top ten in the ranking of the top scorers of the world throughout history, and he
As for the titles he received by the press or the masses, including the jewel of the Arabs, the flaming stock, the giant of Asia, the best head hitter in the world and many others.