Jouana Hamze
Personal information
Full name Jouana Toufic Hamze[1]
Date of birth (1988-10-13) 13 October 1988[2]
Place of birth Beirut, Lebanon[1]
Position(s) Defender[3]
Team information
Current team
 Lebanon (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 Sadaka
2007–2009 Ansar
2010–2012 Sadaka
International career
2010–2013 Lebanon 8+ (0)
Managerial career
2022–2023 Lebanon U18
2023 Lebanon U19
2023 Lebanon U20
2023– Lebanon
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Lebanon (as manager)
WAFF U-18 Girls Championship
Gold medal – first place2022U-18 Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jouana Toufic Hamze (Arabic: جوانا توفيق حمزة; born 13 October 1988) is a Lebanese football coach and former player who is head coach of the Lebanon women's national team. She played as a defender for the Lebanon national team.

Club career

Hamze played for Sadaka in 2007,[4] then moved Ansar and played in 2007–08 and 2008–09.[5] She then returned to Sadaka, playing in 2010–11[6] and 2011–12.[7]

International career

Hamze made her senior debut for Lebanon on 19 October 2010, in a 5–1 defeat to Egypt.[2] She capped during the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup, the 2011 WAFF Women's Championship and the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification.[2]

Managerial career

Hamze was head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-18 team at the 2022 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship,[8] in which she helped Lebanon lift the title after defeating Syria 5–1 in the final.[9] She also coached the under-20 team at the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification, in which Lebanon qualified to the second round.[10]

On 9 July 2023, Hamze was appointed head coach of Lebanon women's national team.[11] On 18 and 21 July, she helped Lebanon beat Palestine 5–0 and 2–1 in her first two games as Lebanon coach.[12][13] In September 2023, Hamze led Lebanon to win the 2023 SAFF Friendly Tournament in Saudi Arabia.[14]

Personal life

Her paternal uncle, Salim Hamze,[15] was also an international footballer for Lebanon during the 1990s.[16]

Honours

Manager

Lebanon U18

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Jouana Hamze". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Jouana Hamze". FA Lebanon. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "AFC WOMEN'S ASIAN CUP 2014". AFC. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  4. ↑ https://al-akhbar.com/Sport/195955
  5. ↑ بطولة لبنان الكروية لسيدات الصداقة للمرة الثانية 2009 [Sadaka win the Lebanese Women's Football League for a second time in 2009]. abdogedeon.com (in Arabic). Al Liwaa. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "الدوبليه الرابعة على التوالي لسيدات الصداقة - Malaeeb". Malaeeb.com. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "«الصداقة» بطل لبنان للسنة الخامسة على التوالي". الجمهورية (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "رسالة قوية من مدربة ناشئات لبنان لمنتخبات غرب آسيا". كووورة. 18 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  9. ↑ الكبير, لبنان (30 October 2022). "غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: في المباراة النهائية أظهرنا مستوانا الحقيقي وفزنا بسهولة على سوريا". موقع لبنان الكبير (in Arabic). Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  10. ↑ فواز, محمد (30 October 2022). "غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: في المباراة النهائية أظهرنا مستوانا الحقيقي وفزنا بسهولة على سوريا". موقع لبنان الكبير (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  11. ↑ Lebanese Football Association [@thelfawomen] (9 July 2023). جوانا حمزة مدربة منتخب سيدات لبنان [Jouana Hamze is the coach of Lebanon women's national team] (in Arabic) – via Instagram.
  12. ↑ Khaled, Nasser (19 July 2023). فوز كبير لسيدات لبنان على فلسطين [A big win for the Lebanese women against Palestine]. Kooora (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  13. ↑ "لبنان يجدد فوزه على فلسطين وديًا". The LFA. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  14. ↑ "منتخب لبنان بطلاً للبطولة الدولية للسيدات".
  15. ↑ غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: لولا جهود الجميع إدارة وجهازاً فنيا ولاعبات لما تحقق الانجاز (in Arabic). لبنان الكبير. 30 October 2022. 10:00 minutes in.
  16. ↑ "Salim Hamze". FA Lebanon. Retrieved 10 July 2023.


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