SOCCER PLAYER

Nashat Akram

1984 - Today

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Nashat Akram Abid Ali Al-Eissa (Arabic: نَشَأَت أَكْرَم عَبْد عَلِيّ الْعِيسَى; born 12 September 1984) is an Iraqi former professional footballer. Popularly dubbed "The Maestro", he usually played as a playmaker or as an attacking midfielder and was known for his exceptional vision and excellent passing ability, as well as his ability to score goals from long range. Akram was Iraq's most promising young prospect in the early 2000s, and became an integral part of the Iraq national team as he helped them win the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, winning the man of the match award in the final and being voted for the Team of the Tournament as well as finishing in third place in the AFC Footballer of the Year award in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nashat Akram has received more than 129,427 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nashat Akram is the 8,161st most popular soccer player (down from 7,734th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 321st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iraqi Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nashat Akram ranks 8,161 out of 21,273Before him are Adiel de Oliveira Amorim, Hege Riise, Patson Daka, Kenji Yamamoto, Mihails Zemļinskis, and Darko Milanič. After him are Yuri Lodygin, Joel Sánchez, Michael Mols, Isaac Kiese Thelin, Joseba Llorente, and Leonardo Ulloa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Nashat Akram ranks 363Before him are Bianca Balti, Selina Gasparin, Marina Squerciati, Mišo Brečko, Alysson Paradis, and Rosanna Davison. After him are Ryo Nishikido, Jesse Lee Soffer, Joaquín Larrivey, Zhanna Nemtsova, Christian Lell, and Shreya Ghoshal.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Nashat Akram ranks 355 out of 384Before him are Jim Al-Khalili (1962), Nadhim Zahawi (1967), Ahmed Al Safi (1971), Muhsin al-Ramli (1967), Aymen Hussein (1996), and Bashar Warda (1969). After him are Basil Gorgis (1961), Samir Shaker (1958), Ali Hussein Shihab (1961), Abir Al-Sahlani (1976), Bassim Abbas (1982), and Noor Sabri (1984).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iraq

Among soccer players born in Iraq, Nashat Akram ranks 9Before him are Younis Mahmoud (1983), Raad Hammoudi (1953), Hawar Mulla Mohammed (1981), Ali Adnan Kadhim (1993), Nadhim Shaker (1958), and Aymen Hussein (1996). After him are Basil Gorgis (1961), Samir Shaker (1958), Ali Hussein Shihab (1961), Bassim Abbas (1982), Noor Sabri (1984), and Alaa Abdul-Zahra (1987).