en Youssef Kalfa

Youssef Kalfa
Personal information
Date of birth	14 May 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth	Hama, Syria
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder, winger
Team information
Current team	Al-Taliya
Senior career*
Years	Team
2011–2015	Taliya
2015–2017	Al-Jaish
2017–2018	Al-Nasr
2018	Emirates
2018–2019	Al-Hazem
2019	Al-Qadisiyah
2019–2020	Al-Arabi
2020	Al-Fahaheel
2020–2021	Hutteen
2021–2022	Al-Wahda
2022–	Al-Taliya
International career‡
2014-2016	Syria U-23
2016–	Syria
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 April 2019; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2019

Youssef Kalfa (Arabic: يوسف قلفا; born 14 May 1993) is a Syrian professional footballer who plays for Al-Taliya and the Syria national team.^[2]

Club career

Kalfa started the 2018–19 season with Al-Hazem and he was key player in the team. But he decided to move to Al-Qadsiah FC in the middle of the season for personal reasons.^[3]

International career

Kalfa made his first senior international appearance for the Syria national team in a friendly in and against Tajikistan on 27 August 2016, having substituted Hamid Mido in the 56th minute.^[4]

He was part of 6 matches in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.

He participated in 2019 AFC Asian Cup and he was part of the first two matches against Palestine and Jordan.