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 Akram with Al-Gharafa in 2008 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nashat Akram Abid Ali | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 12 September 1984 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Al Hillah, Babylon, Iraq | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | ||||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Al-Zawraa | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Salahaddin | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Al-Shorta | (7) | |||||||||||||||
| 2001 | → Al-Zawraa (loan) | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Al-Nassr | (1) | |||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Al-Shabab | (8) | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Al-Ain | (3) | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Al-Gharafa | 23 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Twente | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Al-Wakrah | 11 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Lekhwiya | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Al-Wakrah | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Al-Nasr | 11 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Al-Shorta | 21 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Dalian Aerbin | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Al-Shorta | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Erbil | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | – | (44) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Iraq U17 | 3 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Iraq U20 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2013 | Iraq | 113 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 April 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
Nashat Akram Abid Ali Al-Eissa (Arabic: نشأت أكرم عبد علي العيسى; born 12 September 1984) is an Iraqi former professional footballer. Popularly dubbed "The Maestro", he usually played as a playmaker or as an attacking midfielder and was known for his exceptional vision and excellent passing ability, as well as his ability to score goals from long range.
Akram was Iraq's most promising young prospect in the early 2000s, and became an integral part of the Iraq national team as he helped them win the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, winning the man of the match award in the final and being voted for the Team of the Tournament as well as finishing in third place in the AFC Footballer of the Year award in 2007. At Iraqi club level, he won the Iraqi Premier League title and three Umm al-Ma'arik Championship titles with Al-Shorta.
He also won league titles with Saudi club Al-Shabab, Qatari club Al-Gharafa and Dutch club FC Twente. Akram almost signed for Premier League club Manchester City in 2008,[1] but work permit issues meant that he was not allowed to join, while he was also linked with clubs such as Sunderland and Málaga in his career.[2]
- ^ FIFA.com – Akram impresses Eriksson at City
- ^ "Akram claims Black Cats talks". Sky Sports. Archived from the original on 6 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2007.