Ali Haidar (basketball)
| No. 11 – Beirut Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Power forward | ||||||||||||||||||||
| League | LBL | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 20 July 1990 Qana, Lebanon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Lebanese / Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 240 lb (109 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | J.L. Forster Secondary School (Ahliah School) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Michigan Tech (2009–2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2013: undrafted | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2013–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2013–2018 | Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Beirut Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Champville SC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Saskatchewan Rattlers | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | → Al Wehdat Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Dynamo Club Lebanon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2022–present | Beirut Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Mohamed Ali Haidar (Arabic: علي حيدر, born in Lebanon on 20 July 1990) is a Lebanese-Canadian basketball player for Beirut Club of the Lebanese Basketball League (LBL).[1]
Career
Haidar born in Qana, Lebanon to Mohammad and Mona Haidar. He has four brothers and two sisters. He immigrated with his family to Canada in 2006, where he studied at J.L. Forster Secondary School in Windsor, Ontario, playing starting 2006–2007 season in the high school's Forster Spartans basketball team.[2]
Upon graduation from Forster, he was offered a scholarship at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, USA specializing in an engineering double major starting 2010 while playing for the MTU Huskies basketball program playing in the GLIAC (GLIAC) in NCAA Division II.[citation needed]
In Lebanon
The Lebanese Basketball Federation invited Haidar for summer tryouts in June 2011. He was one of 25 players competing for 12 spots on the national team. He had his international debut playing in a regional tournament in Jordan, representing Lebanon.[3]
Between 2013 and 2018, he played professionally in the Lebanese basketball club Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. In 2018, he moved to play for Beirut Club.[citation needed]
In the 2021–22 season, he moved to Dynamo Beirut to reach the Final Four and went back to Beirut Club in the 2022–23 season, having the chance to play in Al Wasl Tournament.[4]
References
- ^ Michigan Tech Huskies website: Ali Haidar page[permanent dead link]
- ^ Canada.com Haidar takes care picking U.S. school Archived 23 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ian Marks in Michigan Tech Magazine: A Star from the East (Winter 2011)
- ^ "Haidar, Hayes power Beirut Club in home win over ZobAhan". FIBA.basketball. 22 December 2022. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Basketball people from Ontario
- Canadian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Canadian men's basketball players
- Power forwards
- Lebanese emigrants to Canada
- Lebanese men's basketball players
- Michigan Tech Huskies men's basketball players
- Saskatchewan Rattlers players
- Small forwards
- Al Riyadi Club Beirut basketball players
- Sportspeople of Lebanese descent
- CS Maristes players
- 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup players
- 21st-century Canadian sportsmen
- Beirut Club players