Karrar Ibrahim

Karrar Ibrahim

Karrar Ibrahim with Al-Minaa in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Karrar Ibrahim Almusawi
Date of birth	(1994-09-19)19 September 1994
Place of birth	Basra, Iraq
Date of death	9 July 2020(2020-07-09) (aged 25)
Place of death	Baghdad, Iraq
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–2009	Al-Minaa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009–2017	Al-Minaa	97	(0)
2017–2018	Naft Al-Janoob		(0)
2018–2019	Al-Minaa	13	(0)
2019–2020	Al-Talaba		(0)
International career
2010	Iraq U17
2011–2013	Iraq U20
2013–2016	Iraq U23
2015	Iraq
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Karrar Ibrahim (19 September 1994 – 9 July 2020) was an Iraqi professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the Olympic team in 2016 AFC U-23 Championship.

Ibrahim started playing football at the Al-Minaa Academy,^[1] and was able to win with Al-Minaa U16 team the Basra Clubs Youth League in 2009.^[2]

In September 2009, he was promoted to play with the club's first team. In 22 May 2010, he played his first match in the Iraq Stars League against Al-Hasanain, where he entered as a substitute in the second half, and proved that he is no different from the team's main goalkeeper after he was able to thwart the opponent's striker Hassan Jabbar's one-on-one.^[3]

He stayed with the club until 2017,^[4] where he appeared in 97 matches, then moved to Naft Al-Janoob for one season. Then he returned to Al-Minaa for another season, and played in 13 matches, after which he moved to Al-Talaba to play for it in the 2019–2020 season.^[5]

Ibrahim was first picked to represent Iraq in 2010, when the under-17 coach Adel Nima selected him to be a part of his 23-man squad to play in Arab School Sports Games in Beirut,^[6] in which they won the football gams and won gold medals.^[7][8]

He was also selected by the coach Abdul-Ghani Shahad to be part of the 27-man Olympic squad to play in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.^[9][10] In 6 November 2015, coach Yahya Alwan called him in the Iraq squad for the first time in a match against Chinese Taipei.^[11]

In 9 July 2020, the player's body was found dead inside his car in Baghdad, showing signs of strangulation.^[12][13]

Al-Minaa Club suspended its sports activities for three days in mourning for the death of its former goalkeeper and considered the 20 as a retired number for posthumous honour,^[14] and the President of Asian Football Confederation, Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, issued a statement of condolence about the player.^[15]

Al-Minaa

• Thaghr al-Iraq Championship: 2009

• Karrar Ibrahim at Soccerway
• Karrar Ibrahim at Playmakerstats