Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Mohammed Salem Marzouq Ghazi Al Sebaie Al Enazi |
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| Date of birth | 22 November 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1989 | Umm Salal | ||
| 1989–1993 | Al Rayyan | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–2000 | Al Rayyan | 92 | (59) |
| 1997–1998 | → Al Nasr (loan) | 9 | (7) |
| 1998–1999 | → Al Qadsia (loan) | 6 | (5) |
| 2000 | Yimpaş Yozgatspor | 3 | (0) |
| 2000–2004 | Al Wahda | 58 | (49) |
| 2004–2006 | Al Jazira | 46 | (20) |
| 2006–2008 | Al Wasl | 32 | (10) |
| 2008–2009 | Al Nasr | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 248 | (170) | |
| National team | |||
| 1996–2003 | Qatar | 59 | (34) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Mohammed Salem Al Enazi (Arabic: محمد سالم العنزي) is a retired Qatari football striker. He is the third top goal scorer for Qatar, having scored 34 goals. He won the top scorer award in the UAE Pro League in 2001 and 2002. He has been compared to Iran's Ali Daei.
He started his playing career in the youth team of Umm Salal, then in the Qatari 2nd Division, as a goalkeeper. At the age of 13, he moved to Al Rayyan. He competed with Mansoor Muftah, considered the best Qatari striker of all time, for a place in the starting line-up. He was the world's fourth highest scorer in 1996, which is the first and only time a Qatari has made the list. Iraqi club Talaba SC tried to sign him on loan 1996, which would have made him the first foreign professional footballer in Iraq, but the transfer was never materialized.
In 1997, while visiting a friend in Riyadh, he was told that Al Nassr wanted sign him on loan. He accepted, stating that playing for Al Nassr was his childhood dream. He played in a friendly match against World XI that year, being 1 of the 12 players representing Asia XI. He scored a goal in the match, although Asia XI went on to lose 3–5. In 1998, playing alongside legendary strikers Hristo Stoichkov and Majed Abdullah, he won the Asian Cup Winners Cup. He assisted Stoichkov in scoring the only goal in the final against Suwon, an assist which he describes as the most valuable assist in his career.
In October 1999, he had a trial with German club Bayern Munich. He played on Bayern's team in a friendly tournament and was known as 'the Sheikh'. Nonetheless, after he had returned to Qatar from his trial, he was not contacted by Bayern Munich. He would meet his future Al Wahda teammate, Sérgio, during his trial.
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