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Mahdi Fahs

Mahdi Fahs
Fahs with Ahed in 2020
Personal information
Full name Mahdi Hassan Fahs[1]
Date of birth (1994-10-13) 13 October 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Nabatieh, Lebanon[1]
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Safa
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2024 Ahed 93 (6)
2022–2023Sagesse (loan) 10 (0)
2024Safa (loan) 14 (0)
2024- Safa
International career
2013 Lebanon U20
2012–2015 Lebanon U23 4 (0)
2014 Lebanon 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:47, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Mahdi Hassan Fahs (Arabic: مهدي حسن فحص; born 13 October 1994) is a Lebanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lebanese Premier League club Safa.

Club career

Ahed

Fahs began his senior debut at Lebanese Premier League side Ahed aged 18, during the 2012–13 season.[2] In his first season at the club, Fahs played six league games, scoring one goal in the process.[2] Fahs won his first title with Ahed during the 2013–14 season, helping his side life the 2013 Lebanese Elite Cup.[3] The following season, in 2014–15, Fahs won his first league title, scoring two league goals in 16 games.[2]

Fahs continued to help Ahed win domestically, lifting both the 2015 Lebanese Elite Cup, and the 2015 Lebanese Super Cup.[3] During the 2015–16 season, Fahs scored two goals in 11 league games.[2] In 2016–17, Fahs won his second league title with his club, playing 18 games in the league. Due to his performances that season, Fahs was included in the 2016–17 Lebanese Premier League Team of the Season.[4]

In 2017–18 Ahed won three competitions: a league title, a Lebanese FA Cup, and a Lebanese Super Cup.[2][3] During the 2017–18 season, Fahs played 16 league games, and helped Ahed win both a league title and a Super Cup.[2][3] At the start of the 2018–19 season, he sustained a cruciate ligament injury,[5] remaining unavailable for seven months.[6] Fahs finished the season with two league games, and won both the league and FA Cup.[2]

In August 2019, he was injured in his other foot's cruciate ligament, for six months.[7] On 26 March 2021, midway through the 2020–21 season, Fahs sustained his third ACL injury, during a friendly game against Shabab Bourj.[8][9] He returned to training in September 2022.[10]

Loan to Sagesse

In December 2022, Fahs joined Sagesse ahead of the second half of the 2022–23 Lebanese Premier League.[11] He helped Sagesse secure their spot in the league.[citation needed]

Safa

Ahead of the second half of the 2023–24 Lebanese Premier League, Fahs was loaned to Safa and reunited with his former manager from Ahed Bassem Marmar.[12] After the end of the loan spell, Fahs permanently moved to Safa.[13]

International career

Fahs made his international senior debut for Lebanon on 9 October 2014, in a friendly against Qatar; Lebanon lost the encounter 5–0.[2]

Honours

Ahed

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b "Mahdi Fahs". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mahdi Fahs". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Lebanon - List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  4. ^ "بالصور: زريق أفضل لاعب لبناني في مهرجان المنار". كووورة. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  5. ^ "العهد يستعيد فحص بعد غياب طويل". كووورة. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  6. ^ "العهد يفقد خدمات 7 لاعبين أمام الصفاء". كووورة. 9 July 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  7. ^ "العهد يتلقى ضربة مؤلمة قبل بداية الموسم". كووورة. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  8. ^ "الإصابة تنهي موسم نجم العهد اللبناني". كووورة. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  9. ^ "العهد يؤكد إصابة نجمه بالرباط الصليبي للمرة الثالثة". كووورة. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  10. ^ "فحص يعود إلى تمارين العهد". كووورة. 8 September 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  11. ^ Younes, Tarek (27 December 2022). "مهدي فحص وعلي حوراني يوقعان للحكمة اليوم". El Maestro Sport (in Arabic). Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  12. ^ "مهدي فحص للصفاء".
  13. ^ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=503190589119764&set=pcb.503190655786424
  14. ^ "مهرجان كرة المنار الـ 21 لونه "أصفر"". جريدة البناء | Al-binaa Newspaper (in Arabic). Retrieved 11 February 2020.