Rebin Sulaka

Rebin Gharib Sulaka Adhamat (Arabic: ريبين غريب سولاقا عظمة; born 12 April 1992) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Brommapojkarna and the Iraq national team.

Rebin Sulaka
Personal information
Full name Rebin Gharib Sulaka Adhamat[1]
Date of birth (1992-04-12) 12 April 1992
Place of birth Erbil, Iraq[1]
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Brommapojkarna
Youth career
Eskilstuna City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2013 Eskilstuna City 53 (4)
2013–2014 Dalkurd FF 21 (0)
2014–2015 Ljungskile SK 20 (0)
2015 Syrianska FC 9 (0)
2015–2016 → AFC United (loan) 5 (0)
2016–2017 Elverum 35 (1)
2017–2018 Al-Markhiya 22 (1)
2018–2019 Al-Khor 14 (1)
2019 Al-Shahania 7 (2)
2019–2020 Radnički Niš 13 (0)
2020–2021 Arda Kardzhali 12 (0)
2021 Levski Sofia 5 (0)
2021–2023 Buriram United 71 (1)
2023– Brommapojkarna 1 (0)
International career‡
2015– Iraq 28 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 March 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 December 2021

Club career

Sulaka started playing football in Eskilstuna City FK, where he as a 15-year-old made his debut in the first team. After the 2012 season, he did not renew the contract with the club. For the 2013 season he signed for Dalkurd FF. In January 2014 he signed a three-year contract with Ljungskile SK. In February 2015 wrote Sulaka on for Syrianska FC.[3] In August 2015, he was loaned out to AFC United.

Elverum

Sulaka signed for Norwegian club Elverum for the 2016 season.[4] After a successful season that ended in promotion to the second tier, he extended his contract for the 2017 season.[5] He left the club mid-season and moved to Qatar.

Al-Markhiya

On 9 July 2017, Sulaka signed for Qatari club Al-Markhiya.[6] He made his debut on 16 September, playing the full 90 minutes in a shock victory against giants Al-Sadd.[7] He was picked in the team of the week for his performance.[8]

Radnički Niš

Recently arrived at Radnički Niš, coach Milorad Kosanović expressed to the club management Sulaka to be his main desire to reinforce the defense, so the Serbian club signed him on August 30, 2019, a day before the closing of the transfer-window in Serbia and most of Europe.[9]

Levski Sofia

In January 2021 Sulaka signed a six-month deal with Levski Sofia.[10] In the spring of 2021 he left the club, which was experiencing financial troubles.[11]

International career

On 12 June 2015, Rebin played his first game for the Iraq national team against Japan in Yokohama, the match ended in a 4–0 defeat.[12] Rebin was present in the final rounds of Iraq's 2018 world cup qualifying campaign, in which Iraq failed to qualify to the world cup. In 2019, he was chosen in the Iraqi squad for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.[13]

On 20 February 2022, Rebin announced his retirement from international football for personal reasons. [14]

He announced a reversal of his retirement on 16 August 2023. [15]

Personal life

Sulaka was born in the suburb of Ankawa in Erbil, Iraq into an ethnic Assyrian family. In 2002, at the age of 10, Sulaka moved to Sweden with his family.

Honours

Buriram United

References
  1. "Rebin Sulaka". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  2. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Iraq" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. "KLART: Rebin Sulaka till Syrianska FC (Swedish Language)". Fotbolltransfer.com.
  4. "Seier over Nybergsund og midtstopper signert !". Kcweb.no.
  5. "Sulaka og Tervaniemi klar for 2017". Elverumfotbaa.no (in Norwegian Bokmål).
  6. "Rebin Sulaka has been in Qatar for one day and he's already dominating the newspapers". Twitter.com.
  7. "السد يستهل مسيرته في دوري النجوم بالخسارة من المرخية". Beinsports.com. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  8. "QSL TOTW1".
  9. Radnički doveo reprezentativca Iraka at Sportski žurnal, 30-8-2019 (in Serbian)
  10. "Левски потвърди: "Сините" подписаха със Сулака". Gong.bg (in Bulgarian). 12 January 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  11. "Ребин Сулака разтрогва с Левски за неизплатени заплати". Topsport.bg (in Bulgarian). 21 April 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  12. "Getting to know Rebin Sulaka". Socceriraq.net. 20 June 2017.
  13. "Every AFC Asian Cup 2019 Squad Revealed - Final 23-man lists". Goal.com. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  14. "Rebin Sulaka announces retirement" (in Arabic).
  15. "Rebin Sulaka reverses retirement".
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