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Ghiya Mtairek
Mtairek with Super Girls in 2021
Personal information
Full name Ghiya Mohamad Mtairek[1]
Date of birth (2000-01-09) 9 January 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth Tyre, Lebanon[1]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
Super Girls
Number 11
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 Southern Stars[a] (20)
2020– Super Girls 10 (2)
International career
2021–2022 Lebanon 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:47, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:11, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Ghiya Mohamad Mtairek (Arabic: غيا محمد متيرك; born 9 January 2000) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a forward for Lebanese club Super Girls. Mtairek is also a long-distance runner.

Football career

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Mtairek played for Terdeba Stars in the 2018–19 season,[2] scoring four goals.[3] She remained at the club during the 2019–20 season, when they changed their name to Southern Stars;[4] she scored 16 goals.[5] On 1 July 2020, Mtairek joined Super Girls.[6]

Mtairek made her senior international debut for Lebanon on 8 April 2021, coming on as a substitute in a friendly tournament against Armenia.[7]

Running career

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Mtairek is also a long-distance runner.[8] She began running aged 9, at the Beirut Marathon, where she won the 5 km race of her age group.[8] Mtairek participated in all Lebanese championships of her respective age group from 2009 to 2019.[8]

In 2016 Mtairek, who was part of Phoenicia Club Tyre, participated with the Lebanese national team at the 2016 West Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Bahrain,[9] finishing in fourth place in the 400 m women.[8][10] She participated in the 2017 Limassol Marathon, finishing second in her category and fifth overall in the female 5 km race.[11] Mtairek also participated the following year, finishing third in the female 5 km.[8]

In 2018 Mtairek took part in the Ooredoo Marathon in Qatar, finishing second in the 5 km.[8] In 2019, she won the Lebanese Universities Cross Country representing the Islamic University of Lebanon (IUL).[12] Mtairek finished in second place in the 2019 Limassol Marathon female 5 km.[13]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Terdeba Stars changed their name to Southern Stars in 2019.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Ghiya Mtairek". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  2. ^ بالصور فوز نادي نجوم طيردبا على نادي هوبس ضمن الأسبوع الثالث من بطولة الدوري اللبناني لكرة القدم النسائية [With pictures, Terdeba Stars Club won against Hoops in the third week of the Lebanese Women's Football League]. sadasour.net (in Arabic). 25 November 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  3. ^ "WOMEN FOOTSALE AU LIBAN". abdogedeon.com. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  4. ^ دوري السيّدات.. تألّق لـ"نجوم الرياضة" و3 تعادلات! [The Women's League... glory for SAS and 3 draws!]. Lebanon24 (in Arabic). 3 February 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  5. ^ Nehme, Ale. "Lebanon (Women) 2019/20". RSSSF. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Officially SUPERGIRLS". Facebook. Super Girls FC. 1 July 2020.
  7. ^ "Match Report of Armenia vs Lebanon". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Harb, Abdel Nasser (19 May 2020). غيا متيرك... شمعة مضيئة في نفق الرياضة المظلم [Ghia Materk... a lit candle in the dark sports tunnel]. An-Nahar (in Arabic). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  9. ^ البطلان غيا متيرك والمنتصر بالله حمية إلى بطولة غرب آسيا في البحرين [The two champions are Ghiya Mtairek and Al-Muntasir Billah Hamiah to the West Asian Championship in Bahrain]. alarabi.press (in Arabic). 12 April 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Nehmetallah BEJJANI: Administrative Delegate at the West Asian Championship in Athletics". Sports 961. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Lebanese Runners Shine at OPAP Limassol Marathon". Sports 961. 19 March 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  12. ^ "The Lebanese University organized the "Lebanese Universities Cross Country"". American University of Beirut (in Arabic). 25 February 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  13. ^ "Thousands participate in the OPAP Limassol Marathon GSO 2019 (pics)". in-cyprus.com. 24 March 2019. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
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