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}} Ali Ashfaq (born 6 September 1985), nicknamed "''Dhagandey",'' is a Maldivian professional footballer who plays for Malaysia Super League side PDRM FA and the Maldives national team. He is a forward and serves as captain for Maldives. He is widely regarded as one of the best players in south Asia region along with Baichung Bhutia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=‘Ali Ashfaq is the best and most dangerous striker in this region’ – Maldives head coach Istvan Urbanyi looks forward to clash against India )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eastern promise: Ten Asian Players to watch in 2012 - ESPN FC )〕 He is noted for his strength, amazing dribbling skills and the capability of beating any sort of defenders, according to many coaches. He is a free-kick specialist and a clinical finisher. His trademark style of scoring is beating couple of defenders and rounding off the keeper to score. He is considered as the best Maldivian footballer ever most notably when he was named as the "World's 2nd Best Top Goal Scorer" in 2013 by IFFHS. Ashfaq is the first ever Maldivian footballer to play abroad, and the only player to win a title with a foreign club. Ashfaq was honored with the most prestigious awards a Maldivian footballer would get, in the age of 18 – Maldivian Footballer of the year and Golden Boot Award in 2003. With Club Valencia, New Radiant, VB Sports Club and PDRM FA, he has won Dhivehi League ten times, six FA Cup, four President's Cup, two Cup Winners' Cup, three Charity Shield, two POMIS Cup and one Malaysia Premier League. Ashfaq began his professional career with Club Valencia, where he played for five years. In 2001, he won his first trophy, Dhivehi League. He was crowned as the top scorer of Maldivian football season in 2003, 2004 and 2005 consecutively. In 2006, he signed for New Radiant and won various trophies and he was named as Haveeru Best Footballer of the year in 2007 in his two year period with New Radiant. Ashfaq moved to Brunei's DPMM FC in October 2007, and he joined VB Sports Club after two months and stayed with them until 2011. He again re-joined New Radiant in 2012, and during his time, he completed his 300th career goal and won all the domestic cups with the club in 2013 and moved to PDRM FA for 2014 season. In November 2014, Ashfaq won the Best Import Player Award in the FA Malaysia National Football Awards, for his outstanding performance with PDRM FA in 2014 Malaysia Premier League. Ashfaq made his international debut for Maldives in December 2003, at the age of 18. He has since been capped over 100 times. Ashfaq is the Maldives' all-time top scorer with 44 goals. He scored his first international goal in 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Mongolia, he scored four times in the match. In 2008, he won the Most Valuable Player award in 2008 SAFF Championship. He was among the Top 10 Players of Asia in 2008 and 2009. He also was shortlisted among the Top 10 Players to watch by goal.com in 2012. He took over captaincy in 2009, and he led Maldives to the semi-finals at 2009 SAFF Championship. In September 2013, he became the all-time top scorer of the SAFF Championship after scoring 10 goals in the 2013 SAFF Championship with altogether of 18 goals. In May 2014, Ashfaq won his first medal as the captain of Maldives as they finished third in the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup. ==Early life== Ashfaq was born in Malé, the capital of Republic of Maldives, where he grew up with his mother and brother Ahmed Ashfan. He reputedly showed a keen interest in football since a very young age, and preferred playing football to attending school. He was the captain Majeediyya School football team when they played in the Inter school Football Tournament those years. The local football team, Club Valencia, took an interest in him, and in 2001 joined Club Valencia and thus started his professional football career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A player who had potential to light up world football )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ali Ashfaq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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