Mansur Faqiryar

Mansur Faqiryar is an Afghan former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, born on 3 January 1986. He spent his club career in Germany, signing in 2005 for the amateur side FC Union 60 Bremen, moving a year later to FC Oberneuland, where he made 44 league appearances and two in the DFB-Pokal, and joining the Niedersachsenliga club VfB Oldenburg in 2009. He made his debut for the Afghanistan national team in 2011 in a 3-0 win over Bhutan and collected five caps that year. His best-known international tournament was the 2013 SAFF Championship, which Afghanistan won and where he was voted both the best goalkeeper and the best player of the tournament.