Yaser Hamed

Yaser Hamed Mayor (Arabic: ياسر حمد‎; born 9 December 1997) is a footballer who plays as a central defender, most recently for Portugalete. Born in Spain, he represents the Palestine national team.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hamed and the second or maternal family name is Mayor.
Yaser Hamed
Personal information
Full name Yaser Hamed Mayor
Date of birth (1997-12-09) 9 December 1997
Place of birth Leioa, Spain
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
2007–2012 Athletic Bilbao
2012–2013 Romo
2013–2014 Itzubaltzeta
2014–2015 Romo
2015–2016 Arenas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Gallarta
2017–2018 Santurtzi 2 (0)
2018–2019 Leioa 1 (0)
2019–2020 Portugalete 42 (2)
National team‡
2019– Palestine 7 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11:25, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11:25, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Club career

The second of five sons born to a Palestinian father and a Spanish-Basque mother[1][2] and a product of the esteemed Athletic Bilbao academy which he joined at 10 years of age and departed at 15, Hamed has gone on to play for various Basque sides in the third and fourth tier of Spanish football including CD Santurtzi, SD Leioa, and Club Portugalete.[3][4] He was in the Portugalete team which won their league group in 2018–19 but narrowly failed to achieve promotion in the play-offs, and was still with them the following season when they managed to follow up a second successive title with promotion; however Hamed left the club at the end of that season.

International career

Yaser Hamed was first contacted by the Palestine national team in July 2019 and made his debut in a 1–0 win over Yemen in the 2019 WAFF Championship. Hamed scored the lone goal in that game, becoming the 17th player in national team history to score on his debut. He went on to play every single minute of the tournament, helping Palestine record their best ever showing at a WAFF Championship finishing behind Iraq with a record of two wins, one draw, and one loss.

Hamed scored his second national team goal two months later in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Singapore.

International goals
As of 10 September 2019 (Palestine score listed first, score column indicates score after each Hamed goal)
International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition
No. Date Venue Cap Opponent Score Result Competition
1 30 July 2019Karbala International Stadium, Karbala, Iraq1 Yemen1–01–02019 WAFF Championship
2 10 September 2019Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore6 Singapore1–11–22022 FIFA World Cup qualification

References
  1. "Yaser Hamed Mayor commits to Palestine". Football Palestine. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  2. Yaser Hamed, desde Portugalete a Ramala [Yaser Hamed, from Portugalete to Ramallah], El Desmarque (in Spanish), 8 March 2020
  3. Yaser Hamed, Athletic Bilbao
  4. Juega en Tercera División y ya es internacional con Palestina: la historia de Yaser Hamed [He plays in the Third Division and is now an international with Palestine: the story of Yaser Hamed], Diario AS (in Spanish) 6 June 2019
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