Douglas Aziz

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Douglas Aziz Shamasha Eshaya
Personal information
Full name Douglas Aziz
Date of birth (1942-01-01) 1 January 1942 (age 80)
Place of birth Habbaniyah, Al Anbar, Iraq
Position(s) Defender, midfielder
Youth career
1962–1963 Nadi Athori
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1962–1979 Al-Shorta
National team
1967–1978 Iraq[1] 73 (6)
Teams managed
1979–1983 Al-Shurta
1991–1992 Al-Khutot
1994–1995 Al-Karkh
1995–1996 Salahadin
1996–1997 Al-Ramtha
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Douglas Aziz Shamasha Eshaya (Arabic: دوكلاص عزيز; born 1 January 1942) is an Iraqi former football player player and caretaker coach. He represented the Iraq national team, and is ethnically Assyrian.[2]

Club career[]

He was a pillar for club and country during the late 1960s and through the 1970s. He made his league debut in 1962 and spent 17 inspiring seasons with Al-Shorta and with merger club Al-Shorta, where he was a key figure in the side along with Abid Kadhim, Majeed Ali, Latif Shandal and Riyadh Nouri. He became the first outfield player in the Iraqi League to play as a goalkeeper when he was forced to go in goal for the final few minutes of a 5-2 win over Al-Tijara after an injury to Raad Hammoudi.

International career[]

After making his international debut in 1967, Douglas quickly became a key influence as the midfield general in the heart of the Iraqi team. With the national team, he played in the 1974 World Cup qualifiers in Australia, where Iraq finished second behind the hosts, the 1972 and 1976 Asian Cups in Thailand and Iran, and in the Olympic qualifiers in 1968 and 1972. Douglas was also an important part of the Iraqi army team that won the 1972 and 1977 CISM World Military Championship. Douglas played for the Iraqi national team until 1978 and retired from playing a year later.

Managerial career[]

He went on to coach at Al-Shurta and in his first season in charge, led the club to their first ever league title in 1979-1980. He continued to coach the club's youth teams after stepping down as head coach in 1983, but was renamed coach of the first team in 1985.[3] In 1989, he stepped down as coach of Al-Shurta to work full-time as assistant to Under-19s coach Bill Asprey. Douglas was also assistant coach to Ammo Baba in the national team set-up from 1983–1984. He coached Al-Khutot, Salah-Al-Deen and Al-Karkh in the 1990s before leaving Iraq to settle in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

Career statistics[]

International[]

Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.

No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 19 September 1971 Istanbul  Lebanon 1–0 2–1 1972 Olympics qualifiers
2. 10 December 1971 Kuwait National Stadium, Kuwait City  Kuwait 1–0 1–1 1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification
3. 22 December 1971  Lebanon 3–0 4–1
4. 21 March 1973 Sydney Sports Ground, Sydney  Indonesia 1–0 3–2 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification

References[]

  1. ^ Iraq - Record International Players
  2. ^ [1] Archived December 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Hassanin Mubarak. "Player Database". iraqsport.com. Archived from the original on 2003-04-08.

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