*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 October 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Moshtagh Hossain Yaghoubi (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈmoʃtɑgˈjɑgubi]; Dari: مشتاق حسین یعقوبی) aka Mosa (born 8 November 1994) is an Afghan-born Finnish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Early life
Moshtagh Yaghoubi was born on 8 November 1994 to an ethnic Hazara family in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Youth career
Yaghoubi grew up in Finland and started playing football at the age of 13 with his local club HaPa. After playing in the youth teams of MP, HJK and PK-35 he joined Honka in 2011.[1][2]
Soon after his move to Spartaks Jūrmala he immediately was loaned to the Russian Premier League side Dynamo Moscow. Yaghoubi was given shirt number 61 in the first team, but did not make any appearances for them, mostly remaining on the bench and being involved in the reserve team action.[8]
Return to Spartaks Jūrmala
In August 2014 he returned to Spartaks Jūrmala. Yaghoubi scored his first Latvian Higher League goal on 26 October 2014 in a 1–0 victory over FK Daugava Rīga.[9]
RoPS
On 5 March 2015 he signed a contract with RoPS which is a football team in the Finland Veikkausliiga.[10] He made his debut against SJK on 17 March 2015. He scored his first goal against FC Inter Turku in the Suomen Cup. He ended the season with a second place in the Finnish league. He scored 4 goals and made 5 assists. He won at the end of the season the Best Midfielder award for his club and the Best Midfielder award for the Finland U21.
Shakhter Karagandy
In February 2016, Yaghoubi went on trial with Kazakhstan Premier League side FC Shakhter Karagandy.[11] On 17 March 2016, Yaghoubi signed a season-long loan deal with Shakhter Karagandy.[12] Yaghoubi's loan was terminated by Shakhter Karagandy on 17 June 2016.[13]
HJK Helsinki
On 4 November 2016, HJK Helsinki announced the signing of Yaghoubi.[14]
SJK Seinäjoki
On 31 January 2019, SJK announced the signing of Yaghoubi.[15]
HIFK
After a season at SJK, it was announced on 29 November 2019, that Yaghoubi would join HIFK from 2020, signing a deal until the end of 2021 with the club. He got shirt number 7.[16]
AC Oulu
On 18 December 2021, he joined AC Oulu on a two-year contract.[17] In the summer of 2022 Yaghoubi returned to SJK on loan. Upon the completion of the loan, his contract with AC Oulu was terminated by mutual consent on 14 November 2022.[18]
Yaghoubi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, to ethnic Hazara parents. Yaghoubi and his family fled Afghanistan in 1999 to settle down in Tehran, Iran. After living seven years in Iran his family applied for asylum in Finland.
Yaghoubi has a tattoo on his left arm with the name of his late father Gholam Sakhi.[27]