{{Short description|Pakistani former footballer}} {{for|the father killed during the war in Afghanistan|Killing of Dad Mohammad}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Dad Muhammad | image = | caption = | fullname = Dad Muhammad | birth_date = Unknown | birth_place = Karachi, British India | death_date = Unknown | death_place = | height = | position = Midfielder | years1 = 1940s–1950s | clubs1 = Mohammedan Sporting | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1949 | clubs2 = Jinnah Gymkhana | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1950s | clubs3 = Karachi Kickers | caps3 = | goals3 = | years4 = 1950s | clubs4 = Sindh | caps4 = | goals4 = | nationalyears1 = 1950–1954 | nationalteam1 = Pakistan }}
'''Dad Muhammad''', alternatively spelled as '''Daud Muhammad''', was a Pakistani footballer who represented the Pakistan national team in the 1950s. Muhammad also played for the Mohammedan SC team in the early 1950s.
== Club career ==
[[File:Mohammedan Sporting in 1948.jpg|thumb|Dad (second from right, standing) with Mohammedan Sporting in 1948.]]
In the 1940s and 1950s, Muhammad was recruited to play for Mohammedan SC.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 December 1954 |title=পাকিস্তান জিততে পারেনি |trans-title=Pakistan unable to win |work=Jugantor |pages=6 |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Amrita Bazar Patrika [Daily]. Vol: 80; Issue:152 (06 June 1948) |url=https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP262-1-1-44-155 |access-date=2026-03-22 |website=Endangered Archives Programme |language=en}}</ref> Notably, he played a key role in the team's success in 1948, the season where Mohammedan Sporting became the first Indian club to win Calcutta League without losing a single match. Playing 24 matches, winning 20 and drawing the rest four. The same year, Dad, alongside teammate Muhammad Ramzan, were selected to represent an I.F.A. XI against the visiting Burma football team.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 August 1948 |title=Amrita Bazar Patrika |url=http://www.ndl.gov.in/nw_document/csssc_abp/abp/18696}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=25 August 1948 |title=Amrita Bazar Patrika |url=http://www.ndl.gov.in/nw_document/csssc_abp/abp/18704}}</ref>
In 1949, Muhammad was a part of the Jinnah Gymkhana football team, which toured visiting countries Ceylon and Burma.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Times of Ceylon 1949.11.28 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=tocy19491128-01.1.9&srpos=1&txq=Jinnah%20Gymkhana%20Dad&e=-------en-25-clon,cytm,tocy-1--img-txIN-Jinnah+Gymkhana+Dad--------- |access-date=6 January 2026 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Times of Ceylon 1949.12.03 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=tocy19491203-01.1.9&srpos=2&txq=Jinnah%20Gymkhana%20Dad&e=-------en-25-clon,cytm,tocy-1--img-txIN-Jinnah+Gymkhana+Dad--------- |access-date=6 January 2026 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Times of Ceylon 1949.12.05 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=tocy19491205-01.1.11&srpos=3&txq=Jinnah%20Gymkhana%20Dad&e=-------en-25-clon,cytm,tocy-1--img-txIN-Jinnah+Gymkhana+Dad--------- |access-date=6 January 2026 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Times of Ceylon 1949.12.01 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=tocy19491201-01.1.11&srpos=5&txq=Jinnah%20Gymkhana%20Dad&e=-------en-25-clon,cytm,tocy-1--img-txIN-Jinnah+Gymkhana+Dad--------- |access-date=6 January 2026 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Times of Ceylon 1949.11.30 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=tocy19491130-01.1.11&srpos=6&txq=Jinnah%20Gymkhana%20Dad&e=-------en-25-clon,cytm,tocy-1--img-txIN-Jinnah+Gymkhana+Dad--------- |access-date=6 January 2026 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref>
In 1955, he captained Karachi Kickers during their tour to south India, returning unbeaten after 32 games with 24 wins and 8 draws.
Muhammad also represented the Sindh football team at the National Football Championship in the 1950s.
== International career == In 1950, Muhammad was selected to represent the Pakistan national football team on their tour to Iran and Iraq.{{Citation needed|date=January 2026}}
In 1954, Muhammad featured in all three matches at the 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jugantar. Vol:18 ; Issue: 92 (20 December 1954)|url=https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP262-1-2-18-351|access-date=2026-03-22|website=Endangered Archives Programme|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jugantar. Vol:18 ; Issue: 94 (22 December 1954)|url=https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP262-1-2-18-353|access-date=2026-03-22|website=Endangered Archives Programme|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jugantar. Vol:18 ; Issue: 99 (27 December 1954)|url=https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP262-1-2-18-358|access-date=2026-03-22|website=Endangered Archives Programme|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhatti |first=Mukhtar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3vhOwAACAAJ |title=Pakistan Sports: An Almanac of Pakistan Sports with Complete Records 1947-1999 |date=1999 |publisher=Bhatti Publications |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Muhammad hailed from Karachi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pakistan Observer 1968.12.14 — South Asian Newspapers |url=https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/san/?a=d&d=paob19681214-01.1.8 |access-date=2026-03-22 |website=gpa.eastview.com}}</ref> Muhammad's nephew Ali Nawaz Baloch represented the Pakistan national football team in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Raheel |first1=Natasha |title=The footballer within every Lyariite |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/729225/the-footballer-within-every-lyariite |access-date=6 January 2026 |work=tribune.com.pk |publisher=The Express Tribune |date=30 June 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Fakhruddin |date=23 July 1970 |title=Players' gallery {{!}} Ali Newaz |work=The Pakistan Observer |pages=10}}</ref> Nawaz's elder brother Abdullah Akbar and other brother, Ismail Roshoon, were also footballers.
== References == {{reflist}}
Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Possibly living people Category:Pakistani men's footballers Category:Pakistan men's international footballers Category:Footballers from Karachi Category:Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) players Category:Men's association football midfielders Category:20th-century Pakistani sportsmen
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