Fahed Attal

Infobox Football biography
playername = Fahed Attal
فهد عتال


fullname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1985|1|1
cityofbirth = Qalqilya
countryofbirth = PA
height = height|ft=5|in=11
position = Striker
currentclub = Al-Jazeera
clubnumber = 16
youthyears =
youthclubs = Islami Qalqilya
years =
clubs = Islami Qalqilya
Al-Jazeera
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 2006-
nationalteam = Palestine
nationalcaps(goals) = 16 (12)
pcupdate = 02:32, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = 02:32, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Fahed Attal ( _ar. فهد عتال; born January 1, 1985 in Qalqilya) is a Palestinian professional football (soccer) player currently playing for Al-Jazeera of Jordan. He is the second leading all-time scorer in the history of the Palestine national football team behind fellow striker Ziyad Al-Kord with 12 goals in 16 games. All of Attal's goals with the national team came in the 2006 calendar year earning him recognition from IFFHS International Federation of Football History and Statistics which cited Attal as the World's 8th leading scorer of international goals on par with the likes of David Villa and Bastian Schweinsteiger [cite news | title=IFFHS 2006 World's Best Goalscorers | work=www.rsssf.com | date=2007-08-02 | url=http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/iffhs-scor.html| accessdate=2007-11-02] Attal was also included in the Asian Football Confederation shortlist of 10 players for the 2006 AFC Player of the Year Award [cite news | AFC reveal list of nominees | work=FIFA.com | date=2006, November 17th | url=http://www.fifa.com/newscentre/news/newsid=107686.html?cid=rssfeed&att=| accessdate=2007-11-02] So far, Palestine has a 100% record when Fahed Attal finds the back of the net (6-0-0).

National Team Goals

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