Amjad Kalaf
Amjad Kalaf in 2014
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| Full name | Amjad Kalaf Mansour Al-Muntafiq | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | October 5, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kut, Iraq | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker, Right Winger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Al-Zawraa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Al-Kut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Al-Kut | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Al-Shorta | (15) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Erbil | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2016 | Al-Shorta | (42) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Al-Zawraa | (2) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2006 | Iraq U17 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Iraq U20 | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | Iraq U23 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009– | Iraq | 26 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 January 2015 |
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Amjad Kalaf Mansour Al-Muntafiq (Arabic: امجد كلف منصور المنتفق, born October 5, 1991 in Kut, Iraq) is an Iraqi footballer. He plays as right winger, and sometimes as a striker for Al-Zawraa in Baghdad and formerly played for Al-Shorta between 2007 and 2016. In 2005, he became the youngest player ever to play in the Iraqi Premier League and in 2011 he became the youngest player ever to captain Al-Shorta in a match. He is affectionately nicknamed "The Dark Gazelle" due to his speed and agility on the field in addition to his dark skin.
Kalaf has represented both Al-Kut and Al-Shorta in the Iraqi Premier League and also had a two-month stint at Erbil without playing any matches for them. He almost signed for FC Anzhi Makhachkala in 2012 but the move did not materialise and he stayed in Iraq. On the international level, Kalaf has scored four goals overall for the various national youth teams, and has represented the Iraq senior team 26 times, scoring against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.
Kalaf is an Al-Shorta legend, having stayed at the club for nearly ten years. He saved the club from relegation in 2011 before inspiring them to win two league titles in a row soon after as well as scoring the club's first two AFC Cup goals and he went on to captain the team before he was released from the club in controversial circumstances by Mohamed Youssef.
The striker is the youngest of three footballing brothers, Mohammed and Alaa, the sons of former army track and field athlete Kalaf Mansour. Born and brought up in the city of Kut, Kalaf signed for the team as a youth player.
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