Al-Ittihad newspaper – Mabkhout .. New steps towards the title of "scorer before Asian"

Abu Dhabi (Al Ittihad)

Ali Mabkhout is leading the attack on our national team at the 2018 Asian Cup, and everyone looks forward to the potential of Al Jazeera's striker, one of the most top strikers from the United Arab Emirates and Asia, to repeat his personal feat with the White, For the last Asian Cup in Australia.
Mabkhout, 28, emerged from the Asian Cup in 2015, scoring 5 goals, which allowed us to reach third place in the continental league. It was the fastest goal in Asian history, 14 seconds after Bahrain. The match ended on a UAE victory, surpassing the fastest goals ever recorded in the history of the tournament, including the goal of Kuwaiti Fathi Camille against China in 1976 and the goal of Chinese Zi Eugene after 20 seconds of play against the Japanese in the 1992 semi-final.
The most important feature of Mabkhout, born in Abu Dhabi in 1990, is his ability to end attacks, with what he has his sense of motivation inside the penalty area as well as his ability to harmonize with his teammates during the offensive, and a great experience gained over a long course.
Mekkhout is only 7 points behind the historic goal of Iranian Ali Daei, scorer of the Asian Champions League, with 14 goals scored in three copies of the Asian Cup.
Daei is the top scorer in continental history and the country's top scorer after scoring 109 goals for Iran.
The list also includes Lee Dong-jock, of South Korea, who scored the top scorer of the Asian Cup in Lebanon in 2000 with 6 goals and four goals in the 2004 edition for a total of 10 goals, and Japan's Naohiro Takahara, who has two goals. The continental tournament scored nine goals, including four in 2007, as the tournament's top scorer missed the 2004 version, which helped Japan to win the title.
Iraqi Younis Mahmoud, nicknamed "the assassin", occupies a special place in the list of the best scorers of the Asian Cup, when he helped to crown the "Blacks of Rafidain" with the title of the edition 2007, he won the title of player of the year and leads the top scorer with 4 goals, Yasir Al Qahtani, Japanese Naohiro Takahara and Winfred Younis are registered in four different editions of the AFC Asian Cup 2004 , 2007, 2011 and 2015.
Their third partner, Yasser Al-Qahtani, top scorer in 2007, was an extension of an eminent generation of Saudi players qualified for the Asian Cup in 1996. Al-Qahtani appeared at a time when Al- Akhdar was struggling to climb among the top four in the continental league. Losing against Iraq, but the same year, he won the title of Asian player of the year.
There are no players in Kuwait's history who have scored more goals than Jassim Al-Huwaidi, who scored 63 goals in international, including 6 goals in the Asian Cup, when Kuwait won fourth place in the tournament. the Asian Cup in 1996, 2000 in Lebanon to beat legendary star Faisal Al-Dakhil as the top scorer of Kuwait in continental cup.
Tim Cahill, who announced his retirement a few days ago, is also one of the best Australian footballers and has scored the first goal of his country in the history of his participation in the Cup of Fame. Asia in 2007. He was against Oman and after losing the 2011 final against Japan, his country won the first title in 2015 and scored 6 goals in the Asian Cup, the highest number among players Australian.
Alexander Gennerek is the top scorer of Uzbekistan in the history of the Asian Cup. He participated in the final three times in 2004, 2007 and 2011, scoring six goals in the tournament and contributing to the best result in his history for Uzbekistan. Fourth place in 2011.

Top scorers of the Asian Cup
The nationalities of the players were the winners of the best scorer in the history of the Asian Cup: Zhu Yun-ok (South Korea) won the title with four goals in 1964. The Indian Indy Singh scored two goals in 1964. In 1968, the Iranian Humayan Behzadi won the title.
Iran's Hossein Karani scored six times in 1972. In 1976, Iran's Gholamhossein Mazloumi and Nasir Nourai were co-hosts with Kuwait's Fathi Kamil, with three goals apiece.
In 1980, Bhattash Vareba (Iran) and Choi Sun-ho (South Korea) scored 7 goals each, in 1984, Jia Xiyakuan (China), Nasir Mohammed Khani (Iran) and Shahrukh Bayani with 3 goals. And 1992, Saudi Arabia Fahd Al-Harifi 3 goals.
Iranian Ali Daei scored 8 goals in 2000, Lee Dong Kok of Korea scored 6, and Bahrain Alaa Habil and Aliani Karimi in 2004. In 2007, Yunus Mahmoud, Japan's Naohiro Takahara and Saudi Yasser Al Qahtani each scored scored 4 goals. And in 2011, Joe Ja Chul of South Korea 5 goals, and 2015, and our player Ali Mabkhout with 5 goals.

International travel
Ali Mabkhout participated for the first time with the Al-Jazira team, aged 19, and was invited in 2009 to be part of the youth team that participated in the Cup. of the FIFA U-20 World in Egypt. In the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
Mabkhout maintained its reputation for helping the Olympic team reach the finals of the 2012 London Olympic Football Tournament, the very same year that the United Arab Emirates national team wore the first jersey for the first time, before contributing to the Gulf Cup in 2013 with two goals. 5 goals in the 2014 Gulf Cup, crowned scorer, the same balance of goals, to culminate at the top scorer of the 2015 Asian Cup.