Frans Putros

Frans Dhia Jirjis Haddad (born 14 July 1993), known as Frans Putros (Arabic: فرانس بطرس), is a professional footballer who plays as a centre back or a right back for Thai League 1 club Port and the Iraq national team.

Frans Putros
Personal information
Full name Frans Dhia Jirjis Haddad[1]
Date of birth (1993-07-14) 14 July 1993
Place of birth Aarhus, Denmark[1]
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s) Centre back, right back
Team information
Current team
 Port
Number 5
Youth career
0000–2004 Skovbakken
2004–2012 AGF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 AGF 3 (0)
2013–2014 → Silkeborg (loan) 16 (0)
2014–2015 Silkeborg 12 (0)
2015–2018 Fredericia 58 (13)
2018–2020 Hobro 38 (1)
2020–2022 Viborg 58 (1)
2022– Port 25 (2)
International career‡
2012–2013 Denmark U20 3 (0)
2013–2014 Denmark U21 1 (0)
2018– Iraq 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 September 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 December 2021

Early life

Born in Denmark, Putros is of Assyrian ethnicity from Iraq; he represented his native country internationally at youth level, before switching allegiance to Iraq, making his debut in 2018.

Club career

Putros began his youth career at IK Skovbakken, and was picked up by AGF in 2004, where he played a number of years in the youth and reserve teams for the club. He made his Danish Superliga debut on 16 November 2012, playing the full 90 minutes in a match against FC Nordsjælland.

In fall 2013, Putros was loaned to Silkeborg IF, where he was reunited with the former AGF assistant coach Jesper Sørensen, who had become the head coach of Silkeborg IF. After a successful stay in Silkeborg, Putros signed a permanent contract at the end of 2013.[3] Putros joined Fredericia in 2015;[4] he decided to run out his contract at the end of 2017 to sign a two-year deal with Hobro IK.[5]

Putros joined Hobro IK in August 2017.[6] He left the club at the end of 2019, where his contract expired. On 11 January 2020, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Viborg FF.[7]

International career

Putros was born in Denmark and is of Assyrian ethnicity from Iraq. Putros made his debut for the Iraq national team in a friendly 3–0 win over Palestine on 4 August 2018.[8] He was part of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup squad.[9]

Honours

Viborg

See also

References
  1. "Frans Putros". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Iraq" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. Frans Dhia Putros stays in SIF (in Danish) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, News article from Silkeborgif.com, accessed on January 7, 2014.
  4. Fredericia snupper Putros, bold.dk, 18 January 2016
  5. bold.dk. "Hobro henter Frans Dhia Putros til vinter". bold.dk. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
  6. Hobro henter Frans Dhia Putros til vinter‚ bold.dk, 10 August 2017
  7. VFF henter Frans Putros, vff.dk, 11 January 2020
  8. "Palestine vs. Iraq - Football Match Line-Ups - August 4, 2018 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
  9. "Every AFC Asian Cup 2019 Squad Revealed - Final 23-man lists | Goal.com".
  10. "Viborg vinder 1. division - TV 2". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). 26 May 2021.
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