Yaser Kasim
Yaser Kasim was born in Karrada, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq on May 10th, 1991 and is the Soccer Player. At the age of 33, Yaser Kasim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Yaser Safa Qasim Al-Qadefaje (born 10 May 1991) is an Iraqi footballer who is a central midfielder, playing for the Iraq national team.
Early life
At age 6 Kasim left Iraq with his family to Jordan and after spending a year in Jordan where he experienced his first taste of school, the family arrived in England. His mother told of a story of when he was young, kicking a ball in their second floor flat in West London, the peppy Yaser would break everything at home and have the neighbours below complaining about her son. They told her to take him to the park to play. She remembered one amusing memory of Yaser telling her to stand in goal so he could take shots at her!
Later Yaser's parents would take him to the Westway Sports Centre, paying £2 pound a week to play a variety of sports. They wanted him to take up tennis and he was a competent player however he pleaded to his parents to allow him to play football, his true passion.
That passion for football was sown in the city of Baghdad. His father recounted when the family were living in Baghdad where his son was returning home with his filthy clothes knee deep in mud. One local shopkeeper once told Yaser's father "What kind of player is your son, he’s fighting everyone and taking on everyone!” The player explained how much both his parents had sacrificed for him and his siblings by leaving behind Baghdad under UN sanctions in the early 90s for London for a better life and mentioned that it "completes his heart", when he returned to Iraq and the national team and put on the shirt on because of what his parents had given up and thanked them for all they had done for him.
One of the significant moments in his career and a turning point in his life came when at the age of 18 he turned down a professional contract at Tottenham Hotspurs feeling that he would not get the opportunity progress at the club having seen other players languish in their reserves. "I spent nearly a year out of football", Yaser said. "It was a very tough year but the one person that was there for me was my dad. So I really appreciated that". That year and half out of football had a profound effect on the player and made him mentally stronger and that much more eager to succeed in a sport he knew he could play at the top level.
Club career
He started his career in England with Fulham's youth team. Kasim's coach took him to Fulham and joined the youth team but he departed after a few months and moved to Tottenham Hotspur, a North London club.
He joined Spurs' youth team in 2007 and spent his entire career with the club until his 18th birthday. He left the club in the summer of 2010 after refusing to commit a pro deal, claiming that he did not think the club had the player's best interest in mind. He joined Brighton & Hove Albion shortly after.
He joined Brighton & Hove Albion in October 2010 and agreed to a short-term deal until January 2011. During the 2–2 draw against Bristol Rovers on November 20, Kasim was an unused replacement. During January 2011, it was revealed that he had not signed a new short-term deal before June 30. Kasim made his Brighton debut against Notts County on May 7th.
Kasim was released by Brighton on May 21st.
Kasim joined Luton Town on a six-month loan agreement on July 12, 2012. Through Luton's pre-season games, establishing himself as a first-team regular, and making his debut for the club on August in a 2–2 draw with Gateshead.
Kasim first joined Macclesfield Town on a one-month loan on February 8, 2013.
After an uneventful time at Brighton & Hove Albion and loan stints with Macclesfield Town and Luton Town, the midfielder found regular first team football at the County Ground. After a trial with Swindon Town, Yaser agreed to a three-year contract. Despite being at the club for a few months, he was exposed to a deadline day challenge from an unknown championship team on a deadline day that was turned down. Kasim played 45 times for the club in his first season, forming a midfield team with Australian Massimo Luongo. Mark Cooper, the team's manager, made him an integral part of the effort, but the team lost on penalties to Peterborough United on the Southern section of the JPT. Yaser converted his penalty. On December 21, 2013, Yaser scored his first goal for the club. In the 77th minute vs. Coventry City, scoring a goal was Scoring. In a 2-1 victory over Peterborough United, he scored his second goal in a 2-1 victory. Kasim signed a new deal extension in October 2013, keeping him at the club until 2016. He was banned from playing yellow cards as a result of an accumulation of yellow cards, and he skipped a league match against Port Vale. Swindon finished eighth overall in the 2013/14 season, with the team losing out on a spot in the promotion play-offs.
Yaser played 41 games with Swindon in his second season, scoring three goals in all competitions. In League One, his first goal came against Crewe Alexandra, his second against Chesterfield in the same tournament, while the last was against former Brighton & Hove Albion. Swindon finished 4th in League One, ensuring they qualified for the Championship play-offs. They reached the final but lost to Preston North End, barely missing out on promotion. During January, Kasim missed some games due to being called up for Iraq in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, in which Iraq finished fourth.
Yaser spent three seasons with the club, becoming the club's unofficial third captain. He appeared in 29 games, scoring once. In a 1-0 victory, a league goal defeated Chesterfield in a 1-0 victory. Swindon finished in 15th place, in a disappointing 15th place.
The club was relegated to EFL League Two in his fourth season with Swindon. His Twitter account was hacked in his fourth and final season with Swindon Kasim, while his national coach questioned his commitment to Iraq, and his team was stuck on the medical table compounded by persistent groin and hip injuries, with his team relegated to the fourth tier of English football.
Luke Williams, the head coach at Swindon Town in his final year, became his injury spokesman delivering weekly updates on his recovery rather than his football coach, and at every press conference it was the same saying, "Yaser's case is ongoing."
Kasim signed a two-year contract with Northampton Town of League One in the summer of 2017. In January 2019, he left the club.
Kasim signed a one-year deal with Swedish club Rebro SK in the Allsvenskan in the summer of 2019. He was drafted after the 2019 season.
Kasim signed for Erbil, Iraq's Premier League, in the hopes of assisting him in returning to Iraqi National Team. In a press conference with Sherko Karim, he was introduced to the media. He made five appearances for the club before the Iraqi Premier League season was suspended and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 virus. Kasim left Erbil in June 2020, only five months after moving to Iraq, claiming he hadn't been paid since joining the club.
After leaving Erbil, Kasim was close to moving to South America but decided against the national team's Zakho in the number 5 for one year. Kasim was recalled to the Iraqi national team following an excellent start to the season, scoring twice and Zakho in the top six. It was revealed on January 15th, 2022, that Kasim will play one more game before joining a club in the Spanish second division, CF Fuenlabrada. However, Kasim's move to Spain fell through, leaving the player without a club for the remainder of the 2021–22 season.
In July 2022, Kasim began a trial with National League Notts County. Kasim announced his football retirement in September 2022.
Kasim came out of retirement and signed for National League South's Welling United on October 16-2022.
International career
On March 5, 2014, Kasim made his first appearance against China in Iraq against China. According to football writer Hassan Mubarak, no one in the history of the Iraq national football team had made his position his own in less than 90 minutes, but Yaser Kasim, the Baghdad-born West Londoner who appeared in Iraq's final Asian Cup qualifier against China on his debut, was playing the midfield in Iraq's final Asian Cup qualifier against China on his debut.
Kasim had declined a call-up prior to his Asian Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia, deciding to focus on playing for Swindon Town in League One, where the club's five-man midfield, which also included Australia's Massimo Luongo, featured him. Since being forced to pay his own way to Baghdad from London in the two previous trips with the Olympic side, he may have declined the call-up. Yaser, Ahmed Yasin, and Osama Rashid were among the first few people selected in the national team under Wolfgang Sidka in 2011.
Kasim was called up by Iraq for the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup, under new head Dick Advocaat, after his stellar start to the Iraqi Premier League season with Zakho, where he scored two goals as his team sat in the top six at the time of his call-up.
Everything fell apart at the last minute after his estimated £1 million move to Swansea City fell apart at the last minute. The Swansea was the start of his downfall, he traveled to Spain to study with the Iraqi U-23, a bit overweight, and in one warm-up match against Zenit St Petersburg, the coach sent him off as a late sub, but around 15 minutes later he was ruled out as a late sub. It was intended to give him the message that he wasn't pulling his weight in preparation. He demanded three days leave after complaining about a new deal with his club and then went AWOL, turned off his phone, and never explained why he hadn't returned. His departure was a surprise. When Yaser first emerged from a back surgery in Baghdad, he had been the first overage player selected by the U-23 coach, but he had to leave unexpectedly. He left and never recovered, his phone was blocked, and officials from Olympic and Iraq FA were unable to reach him. One Iraq FA official wrote a study on the U-23 team's stay in Europe and suggested that Yaser be suspended. The player never fully explained the reasoning behind his departure.
In 2015 and 2016, Kasim refused to play many times for national teams in 2015. He returned from school pressures and sustained an injury in September 2016. He had arrived less than a month ago at the Olympic team training camp before Rio 2016. Before announcing his resignation, Kasim Ignore received invitations from new coach Basim Qasim. After months of retirement, you will have to pull out of retirement. After returning from his decision to retire, he played a friendly match against Saudi Arabia's national team on February 28.