Karim Boudiaf #12

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Scored one of the best goals ever seen at Crewe Alexandra’s Gresty Road, his first for Qatar, a left-footed curler from outside the area to earn a draw with Northern Ireland in 2015. “Every team needs a player like Karim Boudiaf, someone that the other players can look to when the game becomes tense or chaotic,” said the former Qatar coach Carlos Queiroz. “He is a calm presence.” The Algerian-born midfielder is as aggressive as he has always been as he approaches his 36th birthday. Boudiaf has more than 120 caps and a big part of his longevity is that he longer dashes around in defensive midfield to no purpose but reads the game, breaks up an attack and starts one of his own.

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