Ali Fasir

Ali Fasir (ޢަލީ ފާސިރު; born 4 September 1988) nicknamed "Sentey", is a Maldivian footballer who plays as a winger or striker for Maziya S&RC, and the Maldives national team.

Fasir began his career at Club Eagles after being spotted by the club during their training camps.

He played one season with the club and spent a year without a club until he was offered from Club All Youth Linkage.

He played a major role to promote his side from second division to Dhivehi League.

Fasir had an impressive Dhivehi League debut season and then signed for the most successful Dhivehi League team Club Valencia for the following season.

Fasir was born on 4 September 1988 in Eydhafushi, Maldives and attended Baa Atoll Education Centre.

Fasir was his parents'; Aishath Ali and Ahmed Shaheem's third child among the six.

From the other children, four sons; Hussain Fasir, Mohamed Fasir, Ismail Fasir, Abdulla Fasir and daughter Fathimath Faiha, Mohamed Fasir was a former footballer who played with him during his early career times at Club Eagles and Club All Youth Linkage, until Mohamed suffered a serious injury which he took four years to recover completely.

Growing up in an island of Maldives, Fasir was an impressive player since a very young age and continued impressing the football spectators at school and island level until he was first offered by Club Eagles.

Fasir was first spotted by a Malé League team, Club Eagles during their training camp held at his home land Eydhafushi in 2006.

Fasir was included in the three players Club Eagles offered the contract from Eydhafushi and he was later released at the end of the season as his contract got expired.

In the year 2007, Club All Youth Linkage, a second division team noticed Fasir during an island level football tournament held in Eydhafushi.

Club AYL signed him for the 2008 season and Fasir played a major role to qualify and win the 2009 Dhivehi League play-off round as 2008 second division tournament finalists to qualify the club to Dhivehi League for the first time.

Fasir played with the number 7 shirt this season and made his Dhivehi League debut in their first match of the 2009 season against VB Sports Club on 6 February 2009.

He also scored in the 3–2 win against VB on that day.

On 21 February 2009, Fasir scored in the 2–2 draw against New Radiant.

On 5 June 2009, Fasir scored two goals against Kalhaidhoo ZJ in their 8–1 win and also assisted Fauzan Habeeb to score their third goal of the game.

Fasir scored his second goal against VB Sports club on 26 June 2009 and he also received his first yellow card in the Dhivehi League.

On 17 July 2009, Fasir made his Maldives FA Cup debut against Victory in the quarter finals but lost the game 2–1.

On 15 August 2009, Fasir assisted Santosh Sahukhala score in the injury time against New Radiant where they won 4–1.

Club AYL went on to win against Kalhaidhoo 4–0 on 27 August 2009, with a goal from him and he also assisted Ju Manu Rai to score their second goal of the game.

As Club AYL finished the 2009 Dhivehi League at the fifth place in their debut season, they played all the matches in 2010 Dhivehi League play-off under the captaincy of Fasir.

Fasir scored against Vyansa on 2 October in their 4–1 win and also scored the winning goals against Kalhaidhoo ZJ on 8 October 2009 where they won 3–2 and against Club Valencia on 14 October where they won 2–1 to qualify to 2010 Dhivehi League as the winner of the 2010 Dhivehi League play-off.

The only match Fasir missed in the season was a league match against Victory, due to injury.

Fasir represented Maldives at under-23 level in 2010, having called up for the 2010 South Asian Games and 2010 Asian Games.

In the same year, he made his debut for the Maldives senior side in an exhibition game.

In January 2010, Fasir signed a one-year contract with Club Valencia receiving the number 7 shirt.

He made his debut on 26 March against New Radiant in the Dhivehi League and scored in the first minute to take the lead in a 4–1 defeat.

On 16 May 2010, Fasir was brought down inside the Vyansa penalty area which awarded a penalty for Valencia, which was converted into a goal by Shamweel Qasim.

In the 2011 season, Fasir signed for New Radiant and had a breakthrough year scoring 18 goals from 23 appearances.

He was the league second top scorer (16 goals) with just one goal behind Victory's Ibrahim Fazeel.

After the end of this remarkable season, Fasir signed with rivals Victory but had to stay away from football due to a fibula fracture during a national side practice session.

He was part of the Maldives teams represented the SAFF Championship in 2011 and 2013.

Fasir returned to New Radiant in November 2012.

During his second spell at New Radiant, Fasir won a quadruple (all domestic competitions; Charity Shield, Dhivehi League, FA Cup and President's Cup) with a remarkable 100% winning record in 2013 season.

He also played his first AFC Cup tournament, helping the club to reach the quarter-finals, having scored in the group stage, round of 16 and also in the quarter-finals.

His displays for club and country led to him finish second in the Haveeru Maldivian Footballer of the year 2014, despite having to miss some of the important matches at the end of the season due to an injury.

After recovering from injury, Fasir scored his first goal in a cup final, leading his side win the President's Cup with his goal.

He scored 23 goals from 24 appearances for his club during the 2014 season.

Fasir scored the equalizing goal in an acrobatic style in the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup bronze medal-winning match against Afghanistan.