Aymen Hussein
أيمن حسين
#9 · Forward · age 30 · (VC)
AFC qualifying top scorer (8 goals); scored the playoff winner vs Bolivia.
58
WC26 rating
- Recent form
- 42
- Career peak
- 42
- League level
- 68
- Competition pedigree
- 30
- International pedigree
- 100
- Longevity
- 36
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Aymen Hussein is the story of Iraq’s qualification. AFC top scorer with eight goals, the man who scored the playoff-winning goal against Bolivia, and a player whose career was almost entirely contained within the Gulf football economy until his international form forced the wider world to take notice. At 30 he arrives in North America at peak physical capability, having added a tactical edge to the natural target-man qualities that have always defined him.
Graham Arnold’s system asks Hussein to do the things that work in Gulf football and translate them to a higher level: hold the ball under pressure, attack every cross, press the opposition centre-backs into mistakes. Against France, Senegal, and Norway he will rarely have numerical support, but Iraq’s tournament hopes rest on him converting one or two chances per game. He is the difference between Iraq finishing pointless and Iraq taking something memorable home.
Strengths
- Aerial dominance — best Iraqi target-man in a generation
- Pressing intensity from the front line
- Penalty-area composure under pressure
Recent form
Al-Wakrah's first-choice striker; vice-captain and undisputed talisman for Iraq.
His goal against Bolivia in the intercontinental playoff was the strike that confirmed Iraq's first World Cup appearance since 1986.