Youssef Kalfa
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-05-14) 14 May 1993
Place of birth Hama, Syria[1]
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, winger
Team information
Current team
Al-Taliya
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2015 Taliya
2015–2017 Al-Jaish
2017–2018 Al-Nasr 8 (1)
2018 Emirates 10 (0)
2018–2019 Al-Hazem 17 (0)
2019 Al-Qadisiyah 9 (0)
2019–2020 Al-Arabi 2 (0)
2020 Al-Fahaheel
2020–2021 Hutteen
2021–2022 Al-Wahda
2022– Al-Taliya
International career
2014-2016 Syria U-23
2016– Syria 23 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 April 2019
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2019

Youssef Kalfa (Arabic: يوسف قلفا; born 14 May 1993) is a Syrian professional footballer who plays for Al-Taliya and the Syria national team.[2]

Club career

Kalfa started the 2018–19 season with Al-Hazem and he was key player in the team. But he decided to move to Al-Qadsiah FC in the middle of the season for personal reasons.[3]

International career

Kalfa made his first senior international appearance for the Syria national team in a friendly in and against Tajikistan on 27 August 2016, having substituted Hamid Mido in the 56th minute.[4]

He was part of 6 matches in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.

He participated in 2019 AFC Asian Cup and he was part of the first two matches against Palestine and Jordan.

Career statistics

Scores and results list Syria's goal tally first. [5]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.16 November 2018Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex, Muscat, Oman Oman1–11–1Friendly

Honours

Al-Jaish

References

  1. Youssef Kalfa at WorldFootball.net
  2. "Syria - Yousef Qalfa - Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway.
  3. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: يوسف قلفا يكشف سبب النتائج المخيبة للمنتخب السوري في كأس آسيا. YouTube.
  4. "Tajikistan vs. Syria (0:0)". National Football Teams. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Youssef Kalfa". National Football Teams. Retrieved 14 June 2017.


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