Balal Arezou

Balal Arezou was born on the 28^th December 1988. He is a footballer from Afghanistan that is presently playing as a striker for the Norwegian club known as Asker. Balal was capped for the national team of his country.

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CLUB CAREER

Balal was raised in Afghanistan and then he left his country to Norway as a refugee. In Norway, Balal played football for the Senja, Grane, Arendal and the Fredrikstad’s youth team prior to his joining of the Asker in the year 2009. In February 2013, Balal joined the Churchill Brother S.C on a loan contract from Asker. His move was accomplished with the coming back of the Indian forward Sunil Chhetr, who came from Sporting Clube de Portugal.

INTERNATIONAL CAREER

Balal made his first appearance for his country in the year 2010, when he was called up for the 2010 South Asian games. Afghanistan surprised everybody as the merged the leader of the group stage in there group by winning India by 1-0, Pakistan by 2-1 and Sri Lanka by 2-0. Also Nepal was a major opposition for Afghanistan in the semifinal of the tournament to also win marginally by 1-0. Balal scored all the six goals of the country in the tournament and went on to become the top goal getter of the country and also went on to become the highest goal scorer of the tournament, having six goals in his name. Unfortunately, Afghanistan lost the final to the country that hosted the tournament, though the final got Balal the title of the best player of the tournament. It was great to give such performance for his country.

His scoring foot never ended for his country as he became the second player in the history of the country to score in a World Cup Qualifying game. Obaidullah Karimi was the first player of the country to score in the country’s first ever goal of the World Cup Qualifiers in the 1-5 0n aggregate loss to Syria in the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers. Balal scored the second in a 1-1 draw to Palestine in the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers. Later in the year in the SAFF Championship in the year 2011, Balal scored the starting goal for the country against India that finished with a 1-1 draw. Balal score an amazing 4 goals against Bhutan in an 8-1 win and this fetched him the man of the match title and has the only hatrick of the tournament in which he was the captain of the national team as well with the goals that his country scored against Bhutan, they went on top of the table ahead of India. He was the hero that acted against Nepal in the semifinal of the tournament.

HONORS

I-League 2013

Top goal scorer of the tournament in the 2010 South Asian Games