Yousuf Al-Thunayan
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Yousuf Al-Thunayan (born November 18, 1963) is a former association football midfielder
Midfielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

 from Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

. During his active career he played 94 international matches and scored 26 goals for the national team
Saudi Arabia national football team
Saudi Arabia national football team is the national team of Saudi Arabia and is controlled by the Saudi Arabia Football Federation...

. At the age of 34 he was selected for his first and only Football World Cup, and appeared in two games, scoring with a penalty in the 2-2 draw with . On club level he played mostly for Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club , also known simply as Al-Hilal, is a Saudi Arabian sports club based in the country's capital of Riyadh and best known for its professional football team, known as Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club...

 in his home country. On December 12, 2005, The Spanish professional football team Valencia CF
Valencia CF
Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the...

 was invited to play a friendly match with Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal
Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club , also known simply as Al-Hilal, is a Saudi Arabian sports club based in the country's capital of Riyadh and best known for its professional football team, known as Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club...

 where Youssef has played his last match of his football career.Yousuf Al-Thunayan a player who amazed most football players by his Dribbling( you can see this in YouTube.com )
The number of championships won by Yusuf dissuaded them with his team.
However Crescent team that made him 28 championship in the summit with 25 Championship
Crescent Club, one of them with the youth team and club championships with 3
Team.
Yousef has dissuaded by all local championships titles with his club
Al Hilal (King Abdulaziz Cup - the founder, King's Cup, Cup
Periodic Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the Crown Prince Cup, league
Excellent, Federation Cup) championships and the Arab (Arab Championship
Champions League, Cup Arab elite, and the Cooperation Council Cup
Club) and the Asian Championships (Cup of Club Champions League, Cup
Asian Cups, the Asian Super Cup) and the team has achieved Cup
Asia and the United Arab Cup.
Commends the first championship achieved with Crescent is the degree of Saudi Championship Young people enrolled in the first season in the Crescent This was in 1983, which ended in victory on the European Alhlaliyn in the game
Ultimate aim gratis (1 / 0) made himself and was dissuaded

With Al-Hilal

01 Championship Kingdom of the degree of youth / 1989

02 league excellent / 1985

03 league excellent / 1986

04 Championship clubs Cooperation Council for the fourth / 1986

05 Cup Saudi Soccer Federation / 1987

06 league excellent / 1988

07 King's Cup / 1989

08 league excellent / 1990

09 Asian Club Championship Champions league of 11 / 1992

10 Arab Clubs Champions Cup league of 10 / 1995

11 Cup Crown / 1995

12 Arab Clubs Champions Cup league of / 1996

13 Cup Saudi Soccer Federation / 1996

14 Cup Sultan bin Abdul Aziz (Saudi Arabian Airlines Cup) / 1997

15 League Cup Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, / 1996

16 Seventh Asian Cup Winners / 1997

17 Asian Super Cup third / 1998

18 Championship Cooperation Council of the clubs 15 / 1998

19 League Cup Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, / 1998

20 Cup Prince Faisal bin Fahd / 2000

21 King Abdulaziz Cup (Cup founder) / 2000

22 Asian Club Championship Champions League of 19 / 2000

23 Cup Crown / 2000

24 Championship elite Arab seventh / 2001

25 League Cup Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, / 2003

With the Saudi national team

01 Asian Nations Cup ninth in 1988

02 Runners-up Fifa Confederations cup in 1992

03 Runners-up Asian Cup in 1992

04 Asian Nations Cup ten in 1996

05 Fifa World Cup Qualification to 1998

06 Arab Cup in 1998

07 Runners-up Golf Cup in 1998

Accomplishments

Prize for the best Asian player in the Asian Club Championship (1986, Riyadh)

Named the best player in the Asian Championship session of the Champions League clubs (1991, Doha)

Named the best player in Asia for the month of February 1996.

Nicknames

"The Tiger"

Is the title star Yousef Al-Thunayan of ethnic and fired upon it since its beginnings, also known soccer ball Asian tiger and perhaps more appropriate title.

"The Philosopher
The Philosopher
The Philosopher is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1923 and is one of the oldest general philosophy journals in the world. It publishes short, original, and accessible articles...

"


"Man of Difficult Tasks"

Title awarded by His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud General President of Youth Welfare after the end of the match between Saudi Arabia and China in the Asian Nations Cup in 1996.

"Dr."

Title launched by sports commentator and writer Mohammad al-Bakr in a match Crescent with the Japanese team Nagoya in the final game to win the Asian Champions Cups in 1996 and won Crescent title after defeat of the adversary b 3 / 1 and scored the goal Commends Progress II

The beginning of a long series of accomplishments achieved Browse by sequencing.

Farewell match

on December 12, 2005 a big farewell match was organised between Al-Hilal and Valencia CF
Valencia CF
Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the...

 more than 65,000 people packed in King Fahd Stadium the match ended 2-1 in favour of AL-Hilal with a goals from Yasser Al-Qahtani
Yasser Al-Qahtani
Yasser Saeed Al-Qahtani is a Saudi Arabian footballer who plays as a striker currently on loan with U.A.E. Al-Ain FC captains of the Saudi Arabian national team....

 and a goal from Abdullah Jumaan Al-Dosari
Abdullah Jumaan Al-Dosari
-Career:At the club level, Al-Dosari played most of his career for Al Hilal.He also played for the Saudi Arabia national football team, and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.-References:...

 .Estadio Mestalla scured Valencia CF
Valencia CF
Valencia Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Valencia, Spain. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish Football and European Football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, two Fairs Cups which was the...

 only goal

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