Eight Arab players registered the names of their countries in the list of honor as the first players to achieve the goals of their country's teams in the World Cup soccer finals throughout history to become legends in the sky of football in their countries, «Emirates Today» publishes the names of Arab players who honored their countries and scored these goals since the first The emergence of the Arabs 86 years ago in the World Cup 1934 in Italy, including the Emirati international Khaled Ismail.
The start was with the Egyptian Abdel Rahman Fawzi in «Italy 1934», the first Arab player ever recorded in the history of the World Cup. His goal came in the 35th minute, against Hungary in the match that ended with the loss of the Pharaohs 2-4, and he scored another goal in the 39th minute.
As for the second player, he was the Moroccan Mohamed Jarir, famous for "Hamman" in the World Cup "Mexico 1970". Hamman visited the West German window, and the famous goalkeeper Seb Meyer on 3 June 1970, and ended in losing the Atlas Lions with a goal of two goals.
And the third player, Tunisian Ali Kaabi, when he opened the goals of the "Carthage Eagles" in the World Cup in Argentina 1978, in the 55th minute and in the net of Mexico, on June 2, 1978, and this match is the first victory for the Arabs, where Tunisia won 3-1.
On the other hand, it took the Algerian legend, Rabeh Madjer, 54 minutes to reach the net of the West Germany team in the World Cup Spain 1982, on June 16, 1982, in a historic match won by the Algerians 1-2.
And Gulf, without Faisal al-Dakhil or "King", his name in the Arab records after he scored the first goal for the Kuwait national team in the 1982 edition, and he was in Czechoslovakia goal in the 57th minute on June 17, 1982, to give his country a draw after the opponent was ahead of the legend Antonin Banenka A pen.
In the World Cup Mexico 1986, Ahmed Radi scored the first goal of Iraq in Belgium, in the 59th minute on June 8, 1986, and the match ended with a loss of "Lions of Mesopotamia" 2-1.
And in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, and in the only World Cup participation for the Emirates team, it was the turn of Khaled Ismail,
He scored his famous and historical goal in the 46th minute in the net of the West German team, in the meeting held on June 15, 1990, and the match ended with a loss of «White» 1-5.
Fouad Anwar was the last of the eight players, when he opened the goals of Saudi Arabia in the net of the Netherlands on June 20 in the World Cup America 1994, lost Al-Akhdar 2-1.
Numbers from the Arab participation in the World Cup:
Only 8 teams out of 22 countries qualified.
- Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Morocco are the most qualified 5 copies.
The Arab teams combined scored 61 goals and received 137.
- The most scored teams are Morocco (14 goals), followed by Algeria and Tunisia (13 goals) and Saudi Arabia (11 goals).
- Saudi Sami Al-Jaber, top scorer of the Arabs (3 goals).
- The biggest victory for the Arabs was through Algeria at the expense of South Korea 4-2 in the World Cup in Brazil.
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A year has passed since the first Arab goal in the history of the World Cup with the signature of the Egyptian Abdul Rahman Fawzi in «Italy 1934».
Khaled Ismail inaugurated Al-Abyad's goals in the only participation in the World Cup, and in the 46th minute against West Germany, which crowned the title of "Italy 1990".