Adnan Hamad
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adnan Hamad Majid Al-Abbassi | ||
| Date of birth | February 1, 1961 | ||
| Place of birth | Samarra, Iraq | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1982 | Samaraa | ||
| 1982–1983 | Salahaddin | ||
| 1984–1988 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 1988–1989 | Al-Talaba | ||
| 1989–1990 | Al-Tayaran | ||
| 1990–1992 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 1992–1994 | Samaraa | ||
| National team | |||
| 1982–1986 | Iraq | 17 | (6) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1994–1996 | Al-Zawraa (youth) | ||
| 1996–1998 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 1997–1998 | Iraq U-20 | ||
| 1998–1999 | Dubai | ||
| 1999–2001 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2000 | Iraq | ||
| 2000–2001 | Iraq U-20 | ||
| 2001 | Iraq | ||
| 2001–2002 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2002 | Iraq | ||
| 2003 | Al-Zawraa | ||
| 2003–2004 | Iraq U-23 | ||
| 2004 | Iraq | ||
| 2005–2006 | Al-Ansar | ||
| 2006–2008 | Al-Faisaly | ||
| 2008 | Iraq | ||
| 2009–2013 | Jordan | ||
| 2014 | Bani Yas | ||
| 2014 | Bahrain | ||
| 2016–2017 | Al-Wehdat | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Adnan Hamad Majid Al-Abbassi (born February 1, 1961) is an Iraqi football manager and former player.
Adnan was born in Samarra, Iraq, the son of a wealthy land-owning family. Hed started his career with the Samarra in 1975 juniors at the age of 14 before. In 1982 Adnan was called up by the famous Iraq national coach Wathiq Naji to join the Salah-Al-Deen club, where he spending only one season with Salah-Al-Deen club which they won the Iraq Super League cup of the 1982-83 season.
Yugoslav coach Miodgard Stankovic known as Aba later called the young Adnan into the Iraq Under-19 team. later he moved to Baghdad and signed for Al-Zawraa. In 1984, he was called up by Ammo Baba to the Iraq national football team for the 1984 Gulf Cup. He later went on to make over 20 appearances for the national team winning the 1985 Pan-Arab Games & and 1985 Arab Cup. He also played for Al-Talaba and Al-Tayaran club teams in Iraq.
After being plagued by injuries during the latter parts of his career, he went into coaching and managed his home club Samarra in a player-coach role in the 1992-93 season. During this time he also managed to score 33 goals for the club. He later became the coach of Al-Zawraa and was assistant coach of the Iraq national football team to Yahya Alwan during the 1996 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.
Hamad spent time in Europe studying coaching techniques before coaching abroad in the UAE with Dubai SC. He first coached the Iraq national team in February 2000 and led the team to third place at the 2000 West Asian Football Federation Championship in Amman. He was then replaced by Milan Zivadinovic only two months before the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon.
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