33·Legends

Faisal Khalil vs Khalid Ismail

United Arab Emirates against United Arab Emirates. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.

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Faisal Khalil

United Arab Emirates · 1999–2007 · SS

Almanac rating
81
Rank in United Arab Emirates
#9 of 33
Clubs
Shabab AlAhli Dubai Club, Al Wasl, Al-Shaab CSC

The number that follows him is 82 league goals in 126 games for Al Ahli between 1999 and 2006, a run that ended with a move to Châteauroux in France where he never played a competitive match. The 2007 Gulf Cup with the UAE sits above two league titles and three President's Cups at Al Ahli, and in 2007/08 he was both the league's leading scorer and its Best Emirati Player. Career record: club career at Shabab AlAhli Dubai Club, Al Wasl, Al-Shaab CSC.

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Khalid Ismail

United Arab Emirates · 1985–94 · LM

Almanac rating
82
Rank in United Arab Emirates
#7 of 33

A minute into the second half at the San Siro on 15 June 1990, two goals down to West Germany, he scored the first World Cup goal the United Arab Emirates ever had, and Lothar Matthäus answered sixty seconds later. Fifty caps and seven goals between 1985 and 1994 took in the 1988 and 1992 Asian Cups, a fourth-place finish in Japan, and the only World Cup his country has ever reached.

The verdict

The almanac puts Khalid Ismail ahead by 1 rating point, 82 against 81.

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