Falah Hassan

Falah Hassan

Falah Hassan in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Falah Hassan Jassim
Date of birth	(1951-07-01) 1 July 1951
Place of birth	Mimouna, Maysan, Iraq
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	President of Al-Zawraa SC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1973	Al Bareed
1973–1975	Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1975–1982	Al Zawraa
1982–1985	Al Shabab
1985–1987	Al Zawraa
International career‡
1970–1986	Iraq	103	(29)
Managerial career
1987–1991	Al-Zawraa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of N/A ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of N/A

Falah Hassan (Arabic: فلاح حسن, born 1 July 1951) is an Iraqi former international football player, and current president of Al-Zawraa Sport Club in Baghdad. He played as a forward.

Early life

Falah Hassan was born in 1951 in the village of Mimouna, in a district of Qal'at Saleh. His father was a farmer and after the 1958 Revolution, his family moved to Al-Thawra (now Al-Sadr) in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, taking advantage of the new government's initiative in building low cost housing for families wanting to move to Baghdad, it was there he first played the game on the streets of the city.

During the 1970s, Falah Hassan was seen as one of the greatest players in Asia, and was offered lucrative contracts to play professionally abroad, in 1978 he received two offers one from Belgium and the other from the Emirates. Al-Shaab from the UAE reportedly offered Falah and teammate Ali Kadhim a contract to play for them in 1978, while after the arrival of Belgium’s army team in Baghdad, the delegation nearly reached an agreement for a move to a club in Belgium however the officials at the Iraqi FA turned it down saying that Falah Hassan was a national treasure, and that he should not be sold abroad. A year earlier in a dire 0–0 draw with English club Derby County in Baghdad, the player ran rings around the opposition defence.

After a dispute with the Iraq FA that led to a suspension from the national side in 1978, Falah returned the following year to guide Iraq to their first Gulf Cup victory, and then went on to lift the 1979 CISM World Military Championship in Kuwait, beating Italy 4–3 on penalties.

Career statistics

International goals

Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	2 June 1974	Stade El Menzah, Tunis	Tunisia	1–2	1–2	Friendly
2.	3 September 1974	Amjadieh Stadium, Tehran	India	2–0	3–0	1974 Asian Games
3.	21 November 1975	Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad	Qatar	1–0	1–0	1976 AFC Asian Cup qualification
4.	28 November 1975			2–0	3–0
5.	2 December 1975		Saudi Arabia	2–0	2–1
6.	26 December 1975	Stade El Menzah, Tunis	Tunisia	3–0	4–0	1975 Palestine Cup
7.	27 March 1976	Grand Hamad Stadium, Doha	Oman	1–0	4–0	4th Arabian Gulf Cup
8.	29 March 1976		Bahrain	2–0	4–1
9.	1 April 1976		Saudi Arabia	3–0	7–1
10.	11 June 1976	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran	Kuwait	2–2	2–3	1976 AFC Asian Cup
11.	25 January 1977	National Stadium, Kampala	Uganda	1–1	1–1	Friendly
12.	15 July 1978	Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur	Syria	1–1	2–1	1978 Merdeka Tournament
13.	29 March 1979	Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad	Kuwait	1–0	3–1	5th Arabian Gulf Cup
14.	3 April 1979		United Arab Emirates	3–0	5–0
15.	8 April 1979		Saudi Arabia	1–0	2–0
16.	21 July 1980	Republican Stadium, Kiev	Costa Rica	3–0	3–0	1980 Summer Olympics
17.	25 July 1980	Dinamo Stadium, Minsk	Yugoslavia	1–0	1–1
18.	6 February 1981	King Abdullah Stadium, Amman	Jordan	1–0	2–0	Friendly
19.				2–0
20.	22 August 1981	Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad	Ghana	3–0	4–0
21.	16 September 1981	Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur	Singapore	4–0	4–0	1981 Merdeka Tournament
22.	7 March 1982	Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad	South Korea	1–0	3–0	Friendly
23.				2–0

Post-playing career

Falah Hassan has been the president of Al-Zawraa SC since 2010. The club has been into lots of success under Hassan's regime, winning many trophies and playing in Asian competitions.

See also

• List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps

External links

• The Legends Training page at Soccer City of Shelby Township.