{{Short description|Algerian footballer (born 1958)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Salah Assad | image = Assad, salah 1986.jpg | caption = Assad in 1986 | full_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|03|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Algeria | height = 1.84 m | position = Forward | youthyears1 = 1972–1974 | youthclubs1 = JSM Chéraga | youthyears2 = 1974–1975 | youthclubs2 = RC Kouba | years1 = 1975–1982 | clubs1 = RC Kouba / RS Kouba | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1982–1983 | clubs2 = Mulhouse | caps2 = 26 | goals2 = 13 | years3 = 1983–1984 | clubs3 = → Paris Saint-Germain (loan) | caps3 = 11 | goals3 = 1 | years4 = 1984–1986 | clubs4 = Mulhouse | caps4 = 55 | goals4 = 15 | years5 = 1986–1989 | clubs5 = RS Kouba / R Kouba | caps5 = | goals5 = | years6 = 1989 | clubs6 = JSM Chéraga | caps6 = | goals6 = | nationalyears1 = 1977–1989 | nationalteam1 = Algeria | nationalcaps1 = 68 | nationalgoals1 = 15 }}
'''Salah Assad''' ({{langx|ar|صالح عصاد}}; born 13 March 1958) is an Algerian former football player and manager who played as a forward.
Assad was born in Larbaâ Nath Irathen. He played for RC Kouba, where he won an Algerian championship in 1981, and in France for FC Mulhouse. For the Algeria national team, he participated at the 1980, 1982, and 1986 African Cup of Nations, 1980 Summer Olympics,<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Sports Reference|title=Salah Assad Biography and Statistics|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/salah-assad-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418091856/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/as/salah-assad-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|accessdate=13 July 2009}}</ref> and at two edition of FIFA World Cup in 1982 and 1986, scored two goals.
Assad holds the record with Islam Slimani of most scored goals at the World Cup for Algeria, which were both scored in the 1982 World Cup. Slimani in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/worldcup2010/team/history/_/id/624/algeria?cc=5739&ver=globa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024043048/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/worldcup2010/team/history/_/id/624/algeria?cc=5739&ver=globa |archive-date=24 October 2012 |title=Algeria World Cup History - World Cup 2010 - ESPN Soccernet}}</ref>
==Career== Assad started playing young with JSM Cheraga and after with RC Kouba. In 1975, he played with the senior team until 1982 and he won the Algerian championship in 1981.
==Career statistics== :''Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Assad goal.''
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ List of international goals scored by Salah Assad<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/alg-assad-intl.html|title=Salah Assad - International Appearances |website=RSSSF|access-date=4 February 2016}}</ref> |- !scope="col"|No. !scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Venue !scope="col"|Opponent !scope="col"|Score !scope="col"|Result !scope="col"|Competition |- | style="text-align:center"|1 || {{Start date|df=yes|1978|7|13}} || Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria || {{fb|EGY|1972}} || style="text-align:center"|1–1 || style="text-align:center"|1–1 || 1978 All-Africa Games |- | style="text-align:center"|2 || {{Start date|df=yes|1978|10|28}} || Independence Stadium, Lusaka, Zambia || {{fb|ZAM|1964}} || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || style="text-align:center"|3–0 || Friendly |- | style="text-align:center"|3 || {{Start date|df=yes|1979|9|29}} || Stadion Poljud, Split, Yugoslavia || {{fb|GRE}} || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || 1979 Mediterranean Games |- | style="text-align:center"|4 || {{Start date|df=yes|1979|12|9}} || Stade d'Honneur, Casablanca, Morocco || {{fb|MAR}} || style="text-align:center"|5–1 || style="text-align:center"|5–1 || 1980 Summer Olympics qualification |- | style="text-align:center"|5 || {{Start date|df=yes|1979|12|21}} || Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria || {{fb|MAR}} || style="text-align:center"|3–0 || style="text-align:center"|3–0 || 1980 Summer Olympics qualification |- | style="text-align:center"|6 || {{Start date|df=yes|1980|3|19}} || Liberty Stadium, Ibadan, Nigeria || {{fb|EGY|1972}} || style="text-align:center"|1–2 || style="text-align:center"|2–2 || 1980 African Cup of Nations |- | style="text-align:center"|7 || {{Start date|df=yes|1981|4|3}} || 19 June Stadium, Oran, Algeria || {{fb|SEN}} || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || Friendly |- | style="text-align:center"|8 || {{Start date|df=yes|1981|8|30}} || Ahmed Zabana Stadium|Stade du 19 Juin, Oran, Algeria || {{fb|Upper Volta}} || style="text-align:center"|7–0 || style="text-align:center"|7–0 || 1982 African Cup of Nations qualification |- | style="text-align:center"|9 || {{Start date|df=yes|1982|2|7}} || Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia || {{fb|TUN|1959}} || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || Friendly |- | style="text-align:center"|10 || {{Start date|df=yes|1982|3|10}} || March 28 Stadium, Benghazi, Libya || {{fb|NGR}} || style="text-align:center"|2–1 || style="text-align:center"|2–1 || 1982 African Cup of Nations |- | style="text-align:center"|11 || {{Start date|df=yes|1982|3|16}} || 28 March Stadium, Benghazi, Tunisia || {{fb|GHA}} || style="text-align:center"|2–1 || style="text-align:center"|2–3 || 1982 African Cup of Nations |- | style="text-align:center"|12 || {{Start date|df=yes|1982|4|28}} || Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria || {{fb|IRL}} || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || Friendly |- | style="text-align:center"|13 || rowspan="2"|{{Start date|df=yes|1982|6|24}} || rowspan="2"|Estadio Carlos Tartiere, Oviedo, Spain || rowspan="2"|{{fb|CHI}} || style="text-align:center"|1–0 || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"|3–2 || rowspan="2"|1982 FIFA World Cup |- | style="text-align:center"|14 || style="text-align:center"|2–0 |- | style="text-align:center"|15 || {{Start date|df=yes|1988|11|13}}|| Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, Algeria || {{fb|MLI}} || style="text-align:center"|2–0 || style="text-align:center"|7–0 || Friendly |}
==Honours== '''RC Kouba''' * Algerian League Champion in 1981
'''Algeria''' * Gold medal in the 1978 All-Africa Games in Algiers * Bronze medal in the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split * 2nd in the final of the 1980 African Cup of Nations in Nigeria * Quarter final round in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow * 2 participations in FIFA World Cup of 1982 in Spain & 1986 in Mexico
'''Individual''' * Africa Cup of Nations Team of the Tournament:1980, 1982 * Best left forward in 1982 FIFA World Cup<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.lalsace.fr/sport/2018/04/26/sur-les-traces-de-salah-assad |title=Sur les traces de Salah Assad |work=L'Alsace |publisher=Jean-Luc Nussbaumer |date=26 April 2018 }}</ref> * 2nd best African football player of the year in 1982<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/afrpoy82.html |title=African Player of the Year 1982 |work=RSSSF |publisher=José Luis Pierrend |date=14 February 2000 }}</ref>
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