Mikael Ishak
Swedish association football player
Mikael Ishak (Arabic: ميكائيل إسحاق; born 31 March 1993) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań.
Beginning his career with Assyriska FF in 2010, he has gone on to play professionally in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, and Poland. In 2020, he signed for Lech Poznań and has since won three league titles and reached the 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League quarter-finals as club captain. He is the third-best foreign goalscorer in Ekstraklasa history (with 90 goals), all-time best foreign scorer for Lech (124) and all-time best scorer for any Polish club in European competitions (32).
A full international since 2015, he has won seven caps and scored one goal for the Sweden national team. He represented the Sweden Olympic team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Club career
Early life and career
Ishak's parents were Assyrian migrants from Syria. He was born in Södertälje, Sweden and started his professional career at Assyriska FF, where he was included in the first team in 2010.
1. FC Köln
In December 2011, Ishak was signed by German Bundesliga club 1.
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