Mohammed Noor

Mohammed Noor
Personal information
Full name	Mohammed Bin Mohammed Noor Adam Hawsawi
Date of birth	26 February 1978
Place of birth	Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1&fras1;2 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Number	18
Senior career*
National team‡
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 December 2015; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 December 2015

Mohammed Noor Bin Adam Hawsawi (Arabic: محمد نور‎; born 26 February 1978), commonly known as Mohammed Noor (Arabic pronunciation: [moʊˈhæməd ˈnuːɾ]), also known by his short name Noor, is a retired footballer from Saudi Arabia who played as an attacking midfielder. He played almost all of his career for Saudi Professional League side Al Ittihad. In 2013, he was forced out of Al-Ittihad to a series of financial epidemics there, and as for that, he moved to Al-Nassr club for one football season. Still, Noor is considered to be one of the best players to ever play in Asia, mostly due to his excellent distribution, ball control, and dribbling skills.

International career

His first appearance with the national football team was in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup in the semi - finals against Brazil. Noor played for Saudi Arabia in the 2002 World Cup, without any real success. He fared better in the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship in Japan for Al-Ittihad. While playing for the Saudi national team on 14 June 2006, Noor managed to deliver a powerful performance while also having come down with a bad case of influenza. During the second half of the Saudi Arabian game against Tunisia (their opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup), he provided Al-Qahtani with the winning assist which secured Saudi Arabia's first goal of the match, bringing the score from a 1–0 lead for Tunisia to a 1–1 tie.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	December 30, 2002	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Bahrain	1–0	Won	2002 Arab Nations Cup
2	October 6, 2003	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Yemen	7–0	Won	2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
3	October 17, 2003	Jakarta, Indonesia	Indonesia	6–0	Won	2004 AFC Asian Cup qualification
4	January 6, 2004	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Oman	2–1	Won	2003 Gulf Cup of Nations
5	June 9, 2004	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Turkmenistan	3–0	Won	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
6	June 6, 2009	Tianjin, China	China PR	4–1	Won	Friendly match
7	July 28, 2011	Hong Kong	Hong Kong	5–0	Won	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
8	November 11, 2011	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	Thailand	3–0	Won	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification