Abdullah Abu Zema
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Abdullah Mohamed Abu Zema | ||
| Date of birth | 4 April 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Amman, Jordan | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Al-Wehdat | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2006 | Al-Wehdat | ||
| 2000 | → Al-Wakrah (loan) | ||
| National team | |||
| 1996–2004 | Jordan | 82 | (13) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2013–2015 | Al-Wehdat | ||
| 2016 | Jordan | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Abdullah Abu Zema is a Jordanian footballer of Palestinian descent.
Abu Zema officially announced his retirement in playing football at the age of 29 after receiving a strong injury and losing the love of his fans. The mark of his retirement in playing football took place on 1 August 2005 in an international friendly match between his country Jordan and Armenia in Amman, sponsored by Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein. After playing the first five minutes of the match, Abu Zema gave the captain armband to his teammate Haitham Al-Shboul and his #18 jersey shirt to his younger teammate Hassan Abdel-Fattah.
Immediately after his retirement as a football player, Abu Zema became one of the assistant coaches of his national team (2006–09), under head coaches Mahmoud El-Gohary (2006–07) and Nelo Vingada (2007–09) until the Iraqi Adnan Hamad took over coaching the national team. When Dragan Talajić became head manager of Shabab Al-Ordon (2009–10), Abu Zema became his assistant coach ever since then. They both then moved to Abu Zema's home club Al-Wehdat (2010–11). When Ra'fat Ali, one of Abu Zema's companions, took proficiency in Kuwait, Abu Zema and Talajić joined him by coaching his team (2011–12).
Abu Zema had finally become a head coach himself when he began coaching his lifelong club Al-Wehdat in February 2013, succeeding the Egyptian Mohammad Omar who failed to help Al-Wehdat reach the semi-finals of the 2012–13 Jordan Cup losing to Al-Ramtha on penalties in the quarter-finals, and losing to the 2012–13 Jordan league winners Shabab Al-Ordon in the second half of the season. He won the Jordan Premier League with Al-Wehdat in 2013–14 and 2014–15, Jordan FA Cup 2014 and Jordan Super Cup 2014.
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