Bashar Resan

Bashar Resan
	Bashar Resan in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Bashar Resan Bonyan
Date of birth	22 December 1996 (age 25)
Place of birth	Baghdad, Iraq
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team	Qatar SC
Number	13
Youth career
2007–2009	Ammo Baba School
2009–2010	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2017	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2017–2021	Persepolis
2021–	Qatar SC
National team‡
2011–2013	Iraq U17
2013–2014	Iraq U20
2014–2018	Iraq U23
2014–	Iraq
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 October 2021; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 November 2021

Bashar Resan Bonyan (Arabic: بشار رسن بنيان; born 22 December 1996) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatar SC and the Iraq national team.

Club career[]

Early years[]

Bashar is the son of former Iraq and Sikak Al-Hadeed player of the 70s, Resan Bonyan.^[1] He started playing on Palestine Street in the Iraqi capital for local team 14 Tammuz and had the privilege of being a student at the Ammo Baba Football School from the age of 12 and spent two years at the school before joining Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya at 13.^[2] He first played for the Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Junior team and in the space of just nine months he found himself in the first team.

Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya[]

Rasan started his career at Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, where he made his league debut in 2011. In the 2010–2011 season he was plucked from the Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya junior side where at 14 was playing with boys much older than himself to train with the first team after he was seen in a game by team coach Thair Ahmed, and he has been a first team member since. The winger has become the youngest player in the history in their 83-year existence and went on to sign a senior contract with the club. He scored the opening goal of the 2016 Iraq FA Cup Final which his team went on to win.^[2]

Persepolis[]

On 3 July 2017, Resan signed a two-year contract with Persian Gulf Pro League Champions Persepolis.^[3] He joined the team after the end of the Iraqi regular season, which he won alongside Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. He made his league debut in 1–0 loss to Paykan on 17 September.^[4] He Played a few minutes in his first season. Resan was influential in his second season at the club and played more there. He scored his first goal against Saipa. His contract was extended until the end of the 2020–21 season.^[5]^[6] On 20 December 2020, he left the club by mutual consent,^[7] to move to Qatar SC.^[8]

Qatar SC[]

On 31 December 2020, Qatar SC announced the signing of Resan after successful seasons with Persepolis.^[9]

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of 12 June 2021^[10]

Club	Division	Season	League		Cup		Asia		Total
Club	Division	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Persepolis	Persian Gulf League	2017–18	16	0	2	0	10	0	28	0
		2018–19	25	1	3	0	10	0	38	1
		2019–20	22	2	3	1	2	0	27	3
		2020–21	3	0	0	0	8	1	11	1
	Total		66	3	8	1	30	1	104	5
Qatar SC	QSL	2020–21	10	2	1	0	—		11	2
Qatar SC	Total		10	2	1	0	—		11	2

International career[]

On 4 September 2014, Resan made his International debut against Peru in a friendly match that ended 0–2 for Peru.^[11] He went onto will make his full international debut for Iraq at the age of just 17 years, 8 months and 13 days after first coming to prominence in the Iraqi league in 2010 at the age of 14.^[1] After qualifying for the Olympics, the player gave his AFC U-23 winners’ medal to a mother whose son was one of 1,700 Iraqi soldiers martyred in the Speicher massacre in 2014.^[1]

International goals[]

Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.^[11]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	12 January 2019	Sharjah Stadium, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Yemen	2–0	3–0	2019 AFC Asian Cup
2.	26 March 2019	Basra Sports City, Basra, Iraq	Jordan	2–1	3–2	2019 International Friendship Championship
3.	7 June 2021	Al Muharraq Stadium, Arad, Bahrain	Cambodia	2–0	4–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification