Aymen Hussein

Aymen Hussein Ghadhban Al-Mafraje (Arabic: أيمن حسين غضبان المفرجي; born 22 March 1996), nicknamed Abu Tubar (Arabic: أبو طبر, lit. 'The Hatchet Man'), is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a striker for Iraq Stars League side Al-Karma and the Iraq national team. A prolific goal-scorer, he is currently Iraq's fifth all-time top goal scorer.

Club career In 2009, Hussein was spotted as a gifted teenager with his local team and it was because of a local resident who was also a board member at the Al-Alam SC who recommended the player to his club. He played for youth Al-Alam in the provincial league, and for the first team and then moved to Tuz FC, and with no club from Kirkuk in the top divisions in the Iraqi league, Aymen took the unorthodox route in his attempts into getting into a top flight of the Iraqi Premier League by signing for Gas Al-Shamal a club which was then in the second tier of the Kurdistan League, a division formed of primarily reserve players from the top Kurdish clubs.