Murad Alyan

Murad Alyan
مراد عليان

Personal information
Date of birth	December 7, 1977 (1977-12-07) (age 33)
Place of birth	Jerusalem
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Hilal Al-Quds
Number	9
Youth career
1986-2001	Hapoel Jerusalem
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002-03	Beitar Ironi Maale Adumim	?	(18)
2003-04	Hapoel Bnei Lod	?	(24)
2004-05	Sektzia Nes Tziona	?	(28)
2005-06	Hapoel Bnei Lod	?	(11)
2006-09	Beitar Shimshon Tel Aviv F.C.	?	(14)
2009	Maccabi Kfar Qara (loan)	?	(6)
2009-present	Hilal Al-Quds	?	(35)
National team‡
2011-	Palestine	8	(7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 June 2011. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 October 2011

Murad Alyan (Arabic: مرادعليان‎; born December 7, 1977 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian professional football (soccer) player currently playing for Hilal Al-Quds of the West Bank Premier League.^[1]

Career

Alyan grew up in Jerusalem as an Arab citizen of Israel. He joined Hapoel Jerusalem's youth set-up in 1986 as a nine year-old after spending time with his neighborhood side Beit Safafa. While at Hapoel Jerusalem, Alyan was leading scorer at almost every youth level.^[2] He signed his first contract with Beitar Ironi Maale Adumim in 2002 scoring 18 goals, making him the team's leading scorer. In the 2003-04 season, Alyan joined Bnei Lod and helped them win Liga Bet by scoring 24 goals, a team high. The next season, he joined Ironi Nes Tziona (later renamed Sektzia Nes Tziona) and helped them win promotion to Liga Alef by scoring 28 goals. His prolific scoring at the lower levels of the Israeli League, prompted his former team, Hapoel Bnei Lod, now in Liga Artzit to resign him. His 11 goals helped Lod achieve a third successive promotion, to the second tier of the Israeli league Liga Leumit. He spent the next two seasons at Beitar Shimshon Tel Aviv F.C. who were playing in the third tier at the time. His final season with the club, saw him go on loan to Maccabi Kfar Qara.

In 2009, he signed his first fully fledged professional contract with Jerusalem based Hilal Al-Quds. He scored 15 goals in his first season and finished as the West Bank Premier League top scorer. TIn his second season, he again finished top scorer with 20 goals in the league, he also managed an astonishing 13 goals in the Palestine FA Cup, leading Hilal Al-Quds to the title. He had a total of 35 goals in all three domestic competitions in 2010-11

International career

Alyan received his first official cap for Palestine in the qualifying round of the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup. This call-up came only months after Mousa Bezaz publicly announced he would not consider Alyan due to his age.^[3] In his first game against Bangladesh, he scored two goals in a 2-0 win over Bangladesh. In the following game against the Philippines he saw one of his shots hit the post. He continued his fine run of form two days later against Myanmar where he scored Palestine's opening and final goals of the match.

National Team Goals

Murad Alyan: International Goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	21 March 2011	Rangoon, Myanmar	Bangladesh	1-0	1-0	2012 AFC Challenge Cup Qual.
2.	21 March 2011	Rangoon, Myanmar	Bangladesh	2-0	2-0	2012 AFC Challenge Cup Qual.
3.	24 March 2011	Rangoon, Myanmar	Myanmar	1-1	3-1	2012 AFC Challenge Cup Qual.
4.	25 March 2011	Rangoon, Myanmar	Myanmar	3-1	3-1	2012 AFC Challenge Cup Qual.
5.	29 June 2011	Tursunzoda, Tajikstan	Afghanistan	1-0	2-0	2014 FIFA World Cup Qual. (AFC)
6.	28 July 2011	Al-Ram, Palestine	Thailand	1-0	2-2	2014 FIFA World Cup Qual. (AFC)
7.	28 July 2011	Al-Ram, Palestine	Thailand	2-1	2-2	2014 FIFA World Cup Qual. (AFC)

References

1. ^ "مراد عليان من طفل مدلل الى جزار لا يعرف الا لغة الأهداف...". www.maannews.net. 2010-10-30. http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=329059. 
2. ^ "مراد عليان من طفل مدلل الى جزار لا يعرف الا لغة الأهداف...". www.maannews.net. 2010-10-30. http://www.maannews.net/arb/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=329059. 
3. ^ "موسى بزاز: لهذا الأسباب تم استبعاد مراد عليان من تشكيلة "الوطني"!". www.al-ayyam.com. 2010-09-22. http://www.al-ayyam.com/znews/site/template/article.aspx?did=149524&date=9/22/2010. 

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Name	Alyan, Murad
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Date of birth	7 December 1977
Place of birth	Jerusalem, Palestine
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