Abbas Ahmed Atwi

Abbas Ahmed Atwi
عباس عطوي
Personal information
Full name	Abbas Ahmed Atwi
Date of birth	12 September 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth	Beirut, Lebanon
Position(s)	Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Nejmeh
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–	Nejmeh
2011–2012	→ Dubai Club (loan)
International career‡
2002–	Lebanon
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of October 8, 2015

Abbas Ahmed Atwi (Arabic: عباس أحمد عطوي; born 12 September 1979) is a Lebanese footballer who currently plays as Midfield for Nejmeh. He is wearing the number 10 shirt. He is not related to fellow Lebanese footballer and Al-Ahed player, Abbas Ali Atwi, or simply as Onika.

Atwi started his career for Al Nijmeh in the 1997/98 season, and he is still with the team. He made his debut for the Lebanon national football team in a 2004 AFC Asian Cup qualifying match against Jordan on 17 October 2003.^[1] He appeared in eight qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.^[2]

International career

He began to play in 2002 for Lebanon in the match against Jordan. He appeared in every FIFA World Cup qualification in 2006, 2010 and 2014 editions. He is the most capped player for his country with 79 official matches.

International goals

Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first.

Goal	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	9 April 2008	Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon	Maldives	3–0	4–0	2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification
2.	23 January 2009	Surakul Stadium, Phuket, Thailand	North Korea	0–1	0–1	2009 King's Cup
3.	25 August 2009	Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi, India	Kyrgyzstan	0–1	1–1	2009 Nehru Cup
4.	15 November 2011	Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, Beirut, Lebanon	South Korea	2–1	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup Qualification
5.	14 December 2012	Ali Al-Salem Al-Sabah Stadium, Al Farwaniyah, Kuwait	Kuwait	1–1	2–1	2012 WAFF Championship
6.	26 August 2015	Saida International Stadium, Sidon, Lebanon	Iraq	1–1	2–3	Friendly
7.	8 October 2015	Suphachalasai Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Myanmar	0–2	0–2	2018 FIFA World Cup Qualification