Mansour Muftah
Qatari football player
Mansour Muftah Faraj Bekhit Al-Abdullah, or simply Mansour Muftah, alternatively spelled Mansoor Moftah (Arabic: منصور مفتاح فرج بخيت العبد الله, born 1955) is a former Qatari footballer who represented Qatar national team and Al-Rayyan as a striker. In 84 games for the national team, Muftah has scored 48 goals, In 2023, Almoez Ali overtook him as the top goal-scorer of the Qatar national team all-time top goal scorer. Additionally, Muftah played for Al-Rayyan for the majority of his club career. He scored 179 league goals in the Qatari League first division. Al-Rayyan became one of the leading teams in Qatari football during this period. Throughout his career, Muftah also finished as the Qatari League's top goal-scorer seven times.
Early life
Mansour Muftah was born on 22 November 1955, in Doha, Qatar.
He attended the New Rayyan School; the school's football pitch was shared by Al Rayyan's first team. One day, he joined in on an Al Rayyan training session, and scored two goals in a training match, prompting head coach Ashour Salem to ask him to join Al Rayyan's youth teams. Muftah rejected as he was a fan of Al Arabi, and was under pressure from his family to play for Al Arabi.
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