Ashad Ali


Ashad Ali, nicknamed Adey or Adubarey, is a Maldivian footballer who plays as a forward for Maziya S&RC. He is a member of the Maldives national football team. He was the Maldivian National Team Captain in the most recent bangabandhu gold cup 2016, held in Bangladesh, Dhaka. Where he led his team to the Semi Finals.

International career

International goals

NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.11 December 2009Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh5–15–12009 SAFF Championship
2.23 March 2011National Football Stadium, Malé, Maldives1–02–12012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification
3.6 June 2017Al-Rashid Stadium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates1–11–2Friendly

Penalty feinting incident

Adey gained global notability after simulating a fall prior to the run up of a penalty shootout in the third place match of the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup against Afghanistan, deceiving goalkeeper Mansur Faqiryar. The match was won 7–8 to the Maldives.
A similar move was pulled off by Thomas Müller later that year during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In the 88th minute, Thomas Müller deceptively stumbled while lining up the kick, before getting up and running through the Algerian wall. A few days later, Müller admitted to a German TV reporter that the free kick was a designed play.