Ghassan Maatouk
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Mohammad Ghassan Maatouk[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1977-04-30) 30 April 1977 (age 47) | ||
Place of birth | Damascus, Syria[1] | ||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | East Riffa (head coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2010 | Al-Wahda | ||
2006–2007 | → Niki Volou (loan) | 0 | (0) |
International career | |||
2003–2006 | Syria | 10 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2015–2016 | Al-Muhafaza | ||
2019 | Syria (assistant) | ||
2019–2020 | Al-Wahda (youth) | ||
2020–2021 | Al-Wahda | ||
2022 | Syria | ||
2022– | East Riffa | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mohammad Ghassan Maatouk (Arabic: محمد غسان معتوق; born 30 April 1977) is a Syrian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Bahraini club East Riffa.
He played as a defender for Al-Wahda and the Syria national team; he also had a short stint at Niki Volou in Greece.
Playing career
A Syrian international for three years, Maatouk played for Al-Wahda throughout his career, with a one-season loan spell at Greek club Niki Volou in 2006.[2]
Managerial career
Maatouk was head coach of Al-Muhafaza during the 2015–16 Syrian Premier League;[3] he submitted his resignation in August 2016.[4] Maatouk was assistant coach of the Syria national team in 2019.[5][6]
In December 2019, he was appointed technical director of Al-Wahda's youth sector.[6] Maatouk became the first team's head coach in March 2020.[7] He helped them win the Syrian Cup, and qualify for the 2021 AFC Cup.[8] While in December 2020 Al-Wahda rejected Maatouk's resignation submission,[9] they accepted his second request in February 2021.[10]
Maatouk was part of the Syria national team's staff at the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup. On 9 February 2022, he was appointed head coach of the national team; he was the fifth Syria coach to be appointed during the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification.[11]
In June 2022, Maatouk became head coach of Bahraini Premier League club East Riffa.[12]
Honours
Player
Al-Wahda
- Syrian Premier League: 2003–04
- Syrian Cup: 2002–03
- AFC Cup runner-up: 2004
Syria
- WAFF Championship runner-up: 2004
Manager
Al-Wahda
- Syrian Cup: 2019–20
- Syrian Super Cup: 2020
References
- ^ a b "Ghassan Maatouk". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "Ghassan Maatouk". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
- ^ "كووورة: الموقع العربي الرياضي الأول". www.kooora.com. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "كووورة: الموقع العربي الرياضي الأول". www.kooora.com. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "الاتحاد السوري يعين بديلًا جديدًا عن الدباس في إدارة المنتخب". عنب بلدي (in Arabic). 7 March 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ a b "معتوق مديرا فنيا لفرق ناشئي الوحدة". كووورة. 22 December 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "تعيين جهاز فني جديد للوحدة السوري". كووورة. 8 March 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "مدرب الوحدة السوري في حوار لكووورة: لا أؤيد فسخ عقد نبيل معلول". كووورة. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "الوحدة يرفض استقالة معتوق". كووورة. 19 December 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "الوحدة السوري يوافق على استقالة معتوق". كووورة. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "رسميا.. معتوق مدربا لمنتخب سوريا". كووورة. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
- ^ "الرفاع الشرقي يتفق مع غسان معتوق". كووورة. 10 June 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
External links
- Ghassan Maatouk at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ghassan Maatouk at Kooora.com (in Arabic) (archived in English at Goalzz.com)
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