Abdulkader Dakka

Abdulkader Dakka
Personal information
Full name	Abdulkader Salim Dakka
Date of birth	10 January 1985 (age 40)
Place of birth	Latakia, Syria
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position	Centre back
Team information
Current team	Al-Wahda
Number	30
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2008	Tishreen
2008	Al-Ansar
2008–2011	Al-Ittihad
2011	Shanghai Shenhua
2011–2012	Al-Ittihad
2012	Al-Sinaa
2013–	Al-Shorta
2014–	Al-Wahda
International career‡
2003–2005	Syria U-20
2007–2008	Syria U-23
2005–2011	Syria
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23 May 2011; ‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 January 2011

Abdulkader Dakka (Arabic: عَبْد الْقَادِر دَكَّة; born 10 January 1985 in Latakia, Syria) is a Syrian footballer. He currently plays for Al-Wahda, which competes in the Syrian Premier League the top division in Syria. He plays as a defender, wearing the number 30 jersey for Al-Wahda and for the Syrian national football team he wears the number 17 shirt.^[1]

Career

Dakka started his professional career with Tishreen.^{[citation needed]} On 8 March 2008, he transferred to Lebanese Premier League club Al-Ansar.^[2] Dakka left the Lebanese club after four months. In July 2008, he moved to the Syrian League club Al-Ittihad and helped the club reach the final of the AFC Cup the second most important association cup in Asia. Al-Ittihad won the final against Kuwaiti Premier League champions Al-Qadsia after penalties. The game was tied 1–1 after regular time and Extra Time.^[3] In February 2011, he transferred to Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua on a ten-month deal.^[4] but after five months the contract has been dissolved.^[5]^[6] Dakka returned to Al-Ittihad and won the 2010–11 Syrian Cup with his team.^[7]

Dakka was a part of the Syrian U-19 national team that finished in Fourth place at the 2004 AFC U-19 Championship in Malaysia and he was a part of the Syrian U-20 national team at the 2005 FIFA U-20 World Cup in the Netherlands. He plays against Canada, Italy and Colombia in the group-stage of the FIFA U-20 World Cup and against Brazil in the Round of 16.^[8] He was selected to Valeriu Tiţa's 23-man final squad^[9] for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup in Qatar and played full 90 minutes in all Syria's three group games against Saudi Arabia, Japan and Jordan.

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^ رسمياً الدكة ينضم لنادي شينغهاي الصيني (in Arabic). psyrianp.com. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
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^ "Syrian Cup final report". syrian-soccer.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 31 July 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
^ Abdulkader Dakka – FIFA competition record (archived)
^ "Syria squad". the-afc.com. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2011.