Hassan Al-Haidous.. Al-Sadd striker and captain of the Qatar national team | Encyclopedia

The Qatari footballer, born in 1990, started his sports career by entering the Al Sadd Academy, then became a striker in the team and won the title of Asian champion in 2011 and third place in the World Club Championship. Al-Haydos has won several local awards and led Qatar’s national team to win the 2019 AFC Asian Cup and guided them to the 2022 World Cup.

Birth and upbringing

The player, Hassan Khaled Hassan Al-Haidous, was born to a Qatari father and an Algerian mother on December 11, 1990 in the Qatari capital, Doha.

He grew up loving tennis and played it as a child, and his friends who were tennis players were interested in soccer, so they once invited him to play with them. Al-Haydos’ soccer skills emerged and his passion moved into it, and he changed tennis to soccer.

The family initially opposed his interest in football, especially before finishing his studies, but he convinced them of the possibility of achieving a balance between studying and playing football, so at the age of eight he joined the Al Sadd Academy and was involved in the club’s age groups until 2007. .

Due to his outstanding performances, he was included in the first team of Al Sadd Sports Club – which is one of the most famous clubs in Qatar – when he was 17 years old, and he was helped and managed early on by Jaffal Rashid Al Kuwari.

Al-Haydos, who is 1.74 meters tall, joined Al-Sadd as a striker, and has worn the number 10 shirt for Al-Sadd since 2007, and for the Qatar national team since 2008.

The first award for Hassan Al-Haydos was the award for the best promising player of the Qatar Football Association in 2008.

Al-Haydos credits his football skills to the Al-Sadd club, where he spent most of his time since childhood.

Evolution and rise

Believing in sport’s ability to bring about transformation, Hassan Al Haidos has strived to represent the State of Qatar in the field of football and has trained diligently since his early days to achieve personal achievements for himself and his country.

He made his debut with Qatar’s Olympic team in 2008, when Al-Haydos came off the bench to win for his team against Japan in the summer qualifiers.

In the same year, Al-Haydos scored against India in the preliminary stage and against Oman, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam, winning the man of the match award.

Al-Haydoos won the Qatar Stars League in 2006-2007. with Al-Sadd Club, then the Qatar Emir Cup in 2007. He also won several other local championships with Al-Sadd.

Al-Haydos participated in several matches with the Qatar national team, one of which was a World Cup qualifier against Bahrain in 2010.

He also participated in the AFC Champions League in 2011, and with his penalty kick, the club became the champion of Asia for the second time in history and qualified for the World Club Championship as a representative of the Asian continent.

Hassan Al-Haydos got married on December 29, 2013, and at the beginning of October 2014, he had a baby girl whom he named Alia.

After that, he gave birth to his son Fahd, who came out in a televised interview with his father, who said that “Fahd is the decision for the form of my celebration when I score goals.”

As for his daily routine, Al-Haydos stated that his day is simple, saying, “It starts with driving my daughter to school, spending time with my family, and in the evening he trains with club members,” who he describes as brothers.

native surnames

• He won the Emir of Qatar Cup with Al Sadd Club in 2007, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
• He won the Qatar Crown Prince Cup in 2007, 2008, 2017 and 2020.
• He won the Qatari Stars Cup in 2010.
• He won the Sheikh Jassim Championship in 2007, 2014, 2017 and 2019.
• The Qatar Football Association named him the best player in 2015.
• He won the 2019-2020 Ooredoo Cup with Al-Sadd club.

Continental coronation

Al-Haydos became famous after Al-Sadd Club became the champion of Asia and the club won the third place in the FIFA Club World Cup, so he became the captain of the team and the captain of the Qatar national team. Thanks to the efforts of Al-Haydos and his teammates, the club has achieved a great presence on the continental scene.

Hassan Al-Haidous is considered a prominent element in the Qatari football arena, as in his career he witnessed the victory of the Qatari team in the championship of the Gulf Cup held in Riyadh in 2014, in which he scored a goal against Oman in the semi-final final match.

The pinnacle of football glory was on February 1, 2019, when the Qatari “Al-Annabi” team won the Asian Cup held in the Emirates, in which, under the leadership of Hassan Al-Haydos, they achieved 7 consecutive victories without defeat. or tied.

Al-Haydos expressed his great joy at the Asian championship title, saying: “Everything I have achieved is on one side, and this championship is on the other side.”

Participation in the World Championship

Hassan Al-Haidous scored the goals to equalize and go through against Azerbaijan in the European qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Al-Haydos, the captain of the Qatar national team participating in the World Cup, was proud and enthusiastic about this great challenge, wishing success to all Arab national teams participating in the 2002 World Cup.

However, Al-Haydos stated after Qatar’s first clash with Ecuador on 20 November 2022: “We played badly against Ecuador … and we apologize to the Qatari fans.” The Qatari team left this competition after 3 defeats, the first against Ecuador (0-2) and the second against Senegal (1-3) and the third against the Netherlands (0-2).