Jamal Damja (Arabic: جلال الدامجة; born 1966) is a Libyan football coach.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jalal Al-Damja | ||
| Date of birth | 1966 (age 57–58) | ||
| Place of birth | Tripoli, Libya | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1977–1982 | Mezran | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982–? | Mezran | ||
| ?–1999 | Al-Wahda FC | ||
| International career | |||
| 1984–1999 | Libya | 50 | (?) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2016–2017 | Libya | ||
| 2019 | Libya | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Libya
editDamja was assigned the Libya head coach role in October 2016 after previous manager Javier Clemente led the Mediterranean Knights to a dispiriting loss against DR Congo,[1] the penultimate 2018 world cup qualifier they played that year. Taking charge a week before Libya's last qualifier facing Tunisia,[2] he lost his first match at the national team's helm 1-0, placing them at the bottom of their group.[2] Responding to their run of results, Damja blamed the fact that all of their fixtures were not staged in Libya due to the dissension that has beset the country for decades so they would never have home advantage.[2] His contracted expired in November 2017 and he was replaced by assistant Amer Almalmi.
He was reappointed in 2019 following Libya's failure to qualify for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Later on, he resigned on 24 October 2019.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Libyan Football Federation assigns Jalal Al-Damja coach of Libyan national team". Libyaobserver.ly. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ a b c "Damja: Libya have cause for optimism". Fifa.com. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Libya coach Jalal Damja quits as technical staff sacked". BBC Sport. 24 October 2019.
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