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Selaab Ghafouri (born 30 April 1995) is an Afghan professional footballer who plays as a right back for CD Aguiluchos USA and the Afghanistan national team

Early life
Born in Jabal Saraj, Parwan, Afghanistan. Ghafouri started playing football as Center-backat the age of 7 for SUB Sønderborg. Later then at the age of 13 he was picked up by FC Sønderborg as a Midfielder. While playing football Ghafouri was involved in other sports as well such as handball, boxing and taekwondo. Moving to United States at the age of 14, Selaab decided to take football serious and played Winger with Bay Oaks that is located in Oakland, California before he was picked up by San Jose Earthquakes Academy in 2011 after having a great season with his high school football team, Alameda High School.

Club career
After graduating from Alameda High School in 2013, Selaab went on to play for a local adult club called San Ramon Azuri, just a season later Ghafouri was recruited by CCSF to pursue his studies and play football for their men's team. With almost a perfect season Ghafouri and his team were top 8 team in the Nation. A year later Selaab was signed by CD Aguiluchos USA where he played his first match against Sacramento Republic FC in the U.S. Open Cup. Ghafouri's 2nd season with CD Aguiluchos USA in the NPSL was far successful than his first season with the club. As they won the Golden Gate Conference where they held the longest unbeaten record in the conference history, 9 games in row. The run didn't stop there as CD Aguiluchos USA won West Region Title. In the National semi-finals CD Aguiluchos USA fell short against Elm City Express in New Haven, Connecticut.

International career
Selaab was selected to represent Afghanistan at youth level competitions several times, but had to deny it due to personal issues. In November 2017, Ghafouri got his first call up to represent Afghanistan senior side in a friendly match against Tajikistan at Central Republican Stadium which they lost 1-0 and Ghafouri didn't make his debut. He still yet has to make his debut for the national team.