Hiba El Jaafil

Hiba El Jaafil
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 (age 37)[1][2]
Place of birth Sidon, Lebanon[2]
Position(s) Midfielder[3]
Youth career
2002–2006 Sadaka
2006–2007 Arz
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2015 Shabab Arabi
International career
Lebanon U15
2008 Lebanon (futsal) 1+ (2)
2006–2013 Lebanon 14+ (3)
Managerial career
2014–2016 Lebanon U19 (women)
2014–2016 Lebanon U17 (women)
2015 Lebanon (women)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Lebanon
WAFF Women's Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2007
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hiba El Jaafil (Arabic: هبة الجعفيل; born 7 January 1987) is a Lebanese football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. She is also a former futsal player, and represented Lebanon internationally in both football and futsal.

Early life

El Jaafil was born in Sidon and raised in the Ouzai district of Beirut.[4]

Club career

When she turned 15, El Jaafil joined Majd, which changed their name to Sadaka after less than a year.[5] She stayed at the club for four years, before playing for Arz for one year.[5] She then moved to Shabab Arabi, which changed their name to Arabi Tripoli.[6]

International career

El Jaafil has been capped for Lebanon at senior level in both football and futsal. In football, she represented Lebanon at the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification in 2013, where she played three games and scored one goal against Kuwait.[3]

In futsal, El Jaafil played for Lebanon at the 2008 WAFF Women's Futsal Championship.[7]

Managerial career

In July 2014 El Jaafil became head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-19 team, then of the under-17 team in September 2014, with whom she won the 2015 Arab U-17 Women's Cup.[8] She stopped coaching both sides in 2016 due to problems with the Lebanese Football Association.[4]

El Jaafil also coached the senior team at the 2015 Aphrodite Cup.[9]

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list Lebanon's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each El Jaafil goal.
List of international goals scored by Hiba El Jaafil
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Ref.
1 23 October 2010 Bahrain National Stadium, Riffa, Bahrain  Iraq ?–0 9–0 2010 Arabia Women's Cup
2 ?–0
3 9 June 2013 Amman International Stadium, Amman, Jordan  Kuwait 3–0 12–1 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification [3]

Honours

Player

Lebanon

Manager

Lebanon U17

See also

References

  1. ^ "Promoting Gender Equality through Women's Empowerment in Football in North Lebanon and the MENA Region" (PDF). Discover Football. p. 3. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Hiba El Jaafil". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "AFC WOMEN'S ASIAN CUP 2014". AFC. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  4. ^ a b "مثال مشجع" [An encouraging example]. Goethe (in Arabic). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  5. ^ a b سبورت, سام. "صور : اللبنانية هبة الجعفيل .. منتخب فلسطين النسوي تطور وافضل من اللبناني حاليا وحلمي زيارة فلسطين". سام سبورت (in Arabic). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  6. ^ "الجعفيل لـ"الجمهورية": لتحقيق المزيد من البطولات مع منتخب الفتيات". الجمهورية (in Arabic). Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  7. ^ "WOMEN FOOTSALE AU LIBAN". abdogedeon (in Arabic). Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  8. ^ a b "Life is a Pitch: Meet Hiba El Jaafil from Lebanon". streetfootballworld. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
  9. ^ "منتديات كووورة". forum.kooora.com. Retrieved 16 February 2021.


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