Nasser Al-Johar
Saudi Arabian footballer (born 1946)
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Nasser Hamad Al-Johar (Arabic: ناصر الجوهر; born 6 January 1946) is a Saudi Arabian former football coach and former player.[3]
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Nasser Hamad Al-Johar | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 6 January 1946[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1977 | Al-Nassr | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1966–1976 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Al-Nassr | ||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Al-Nassr | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Saudi Arabia | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Playing career
Al-Johar played for Al Nassr FC.[2]
Managerial career
Al-Johar coached the Saudi Arabia national team for both the 2000 AFC Asian Cup (replacing Milan Máčala) and 2002 FIFA World Cup (after replacing Slobodan Santrač),[2] though he was fired after Saudi Arabia lost all 3 matches and failed to score a single goal.[4]
Al-Johar briefly returned to manage the Saudi Arabia national team in September 2004 but left again in November 2004.
When coach Hélio dos Anjos was fired in June 2008, Al-Johar was hired to replace him for the rest of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification returning to coach the national team for a third time.[5] Al-Johar resigned from coaching The Green Falcons in February 2009 after the team lost to North Korea in the AFC fourth round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification;[6] he was replaced with José Peseiro.[7] The Saudi Arabia Football Federation announced the "reclusive" Al-Johar would continue to support the team as a "technical advisor".[5]
After losing to the Syria national team on 9 January 2011, it was announced that Al-Johar would replace Peseiro for the remainder of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup;[8] after two further losses (1–0 against Jordan and 5–0 against Japan), the perennial fix-it man for Saudi Arabia was again sacked, less than two weeks after taking the helm.[9]
