Saleh Al-Yazidi

Saleh Al-Yazidi

Al Yazidi in an Al Sadd line-up in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Saleh Badr Abdulrab Al-Yazidi
Date of birth	(1993-02-10) 10 February 1993 (age 28)
Place of birth	Lower Yafa, Yemen
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder / Winger
Club information
Current team	Al Ahli
Number	29
Youth career
0000–2008	Al Muaither
2008–2010	Aspire Academy
2009–2011	Al Sadd
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2018	Al Sadd	34	(2)
2016	→ Umm Salal (loan)	3	(0)
2016–2017	→ Al-Khor (loan)	5	(0)
2017–2018	→ Al-Markhiya (loan)	21	(1)
2018–2019	Al-Sailiya	0	(0)
2019–2020	Al-Shamal
2020	Al-Markhiya
2020–	Al-Bidda
2021–	Al Ahli	1	(0)
National team
2011–	Qatar U-20	9	(6)
2012–	Qatar U-23	4	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Saleh Badr Al-Yazidi (Arabic: صالح بدر اليزيدي; born February 10, 1993) is a Qatari football player who plays for Al Ahli as a midfielder. He also plays for Qatar's Olympic and U-20 teams. His family is descended from the sheikhdom ruled by the Yazidi tribe in Lower Yafa, a historic state in what was then known as the British Aden Protectorate (present-day Yemen). He played football for a team in Yemen in his youth years, and was later a student at the acclaimed Aspire Academy in Qatar. He gained Qatari citizenship in July 2011.^[1] His family still lives in Yafa.

Club career[]

Yazidi previously played for Al Muaither's youth teams.^[2] He later joined Aspire Academy, before becoming a part of Al Sadd's youth team, where he won the top scorer title for the U-19 league with 14 goals in 2011. He graduated from Aspire Academy in 2010.^[3]

He made his first-team debut for Al Sadd in 2010.

International career[]

U-20 team[]

Yazidi made his debut for the national youth team on August, 2011, against Japan.^[4] He featured in the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship qualification campaign for the Qatar under–20 team. He scored 3 goals in the 5 matches Qatar played, including a brace against Bahrain. Qatar finished at the top of their group, ending the qualification with a loss against Tajikistan.

Yazidi also played one game in the 10th International Friendship Youth Tournament, which Qatar came runners-up in, scoring a goal.

He participated in the ASPIRE U–19 tournament in which Qatar won. He played all 3 games and scored a brace against Tunisia.^[5]

U-23 team[]

Yazidi made his U–23 debut in the 2012 Summer Olympic Qualifiers. His first appearance was on 5 February 2012 against Oman, in a dramatic match which ended 2–2.^[6] Shortly after, he featured in a match against Saudi Arabia, which Qatar won 2–1, thanks to an assist Yazidi provided to Hassan Al Haidos two minutes before half-time.^[7]

In the qualifying campaign for the 2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup, he participated in a warm-up game against the UAE. He also came on as a substitute in their first group stage game against Maldives in the 60th minute, scoring a goal 17 minutes later in the 77th minute in order to give Qatar 2–0 win.^[8]

Honours[]

• Qatar Youth League Top Scorer

2011

Personal[]

He is a distant relative of Mohammed Al Yazidi, who is also an Al Sadd player.^[1][9]

References[]

External links[]

• Player profile - QSL.com.qa
• FIFA.com - Men's Olympic Football Tournament : Photos^{[dead link]}