User:Badran Al Shakran

Badran Al Shakran ( بدران الشقران) is a Jordanian football player from the city of Ramtha, north Jordan. Badran, who was born in 1974, started playing football in a very young age in Ramtha FC, one of the best football clubs in Jordan. Badran is the first Jordanian player to play professional football in three continants: Europe, Africa, and Asia. In addition to Ramtha SC, he played for:

FC Kamaz in Russia, in which he played in Europian Champions League ( the first Jordanian football player to do so)

Safaqsi in Tunisia,

Al Wakrah in Qatar,

Al-Muharraq SC in Bahrain,

Dubai FC in Emirates,

Al Wathba in Syria,

and Al Wehdate ( for two Asian games)and Ramtha United in Jordan.

Badran has 70 national caps for the Jordanian national team in which he scored 36 goals, Jordanian Record. He scored his last two national goals against Laos in 2006, in an unforgetable match for many of the Jordanian fans as the Jordanian national team was 2-1 down to Laos and Badran scored twice in the last few minutes.

Badran's achievments

1. Jordaniam Sheild with Ramtha SC five times: 1989, 1990, 1993, 1996, and 2001

2. Jordanian Cup with Ramtha SC two times: 1990 and 1991

3. Arabic League with the Jordanian national team one time in 1999

Badran retired from professional football in June 2009 and was appointed as a coach in the Jordanian Football Association almost immediately.

Badran is remembered as the best football player in Jordan and is beloved by all the Jordanian fans regardless the clubs they support.