Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1 | Bassam Al-Rawi and at Kooora |
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Bassam al-Rawi's father, Hisham al-Rawi, played for the Iraq national football national in the 1990s | 22 January 2019 , , 1—0 1—0 Honours [ ] Club [ ] Al-Duhail• Personal [ ] Bassam al-Rawi was born in Iraq but moved to Qatar when he was a child, and has lived there ever since |
Al-Rawi made his first international goal on 9 January 2019 in the against Lebanon.
29 January 2019 , , 1—0 2—0 2 | : International [ ] Qatar• On 1 February 2019 the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee dismissed the protest lodged by the United Arab Emirates Football Association |
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In the same tournament on 22 January 2019, he scored his second international and the winning goal for Qatar against his country of origin, , which helped his team reach the quarter-finals of the competition |
Eligibility dispute [ ] On 30 January 2019, soon after the Asian Cup 2019 semi-final tie between the UAE and Qatar, which Qatar won with a 4—0 victory, the UAE FA lodged a formal appeal to the on the fact that Bassam Al Rawi, a 21-year-old defender born in Baghdad, did not qualify to play for Qatar on residency grounds of the Article 7 of the FIFA statutes, which states a player's eligibility to play for a representative team if he has "lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the territory of the relevant association".
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