Zohib islam amiri biography

Afghan footballer

Zohib Islam Amiri (Dari: ذهیب اسلام امیری; born 15 February 1990) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Afghanistan Champions League club Abu Muslim FC and the Afghanistan national team.^[3]

Early life

Amiri was born on 15 February 1990^[4] to an ethnic Hazara family in Kabul, with his family originally hailing from Bamyan.^[5] Growing up he played football often on the streets of Char Qala in eastern Kabul, using a homemade ball made of rolled up fabric stitched together.^[5] During the Taliban rule he often witnessed executions at the national stadium.^[6]

After rising tensions in Kabul, Amiri's family moved to Karachi in Pakistan as refugees, where he eventually joined an amateur team at the age of twelve at the Agha Khan Sports Academy,^[2] along with his elder brothers, as a striker.^[5][7][8][9] After Hamid Ka