Sherko Karim
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sherko Karim Lateef Gubari | ||
Date of birth | 25 May 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Kirkuk, Iraq | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Grasshoppers | ||
Number | 25 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2011 | Kirkuk | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2015 | Al-Shorta | (3) | |
2012–2013 | → Zakho (loan) | ||
2015– | Grasshoppers | 13 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2011–2013 | Iraq U17 | 11 | (5) |
2013–2014 | Iraq U20 | 4 | (4) |
2016– | Iraq U23 | 3 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 October 2016. |
Sherko Karim Lateef Gubari (Arabic: شيركو كريم لطيف , born 25 May 1996 in Iraq) is an Iraqi forward who currently plays for Swiss Super League club Grasshoppers.
Club career
Sherko signed his first senior contract with Al-Shorta on 30 December 2011[1] at the age of just 15 and made his debut a year later. He was given the number 33 shirt and scored his first goal for Al-Shorta against Al-Minaa with a header in a 3–0 win on 24 June 2012. He was given the number 7 shirt before he went on loan to Zakho at the start of the 2012–13 season. He won the league with Al-Shorta when he returned to the club and then again in the 2013–14 season scoring against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and Baghdad FC.
In February 2015, Sherko signed for Grasshopper Club Zürich in Switzerland and made his competitive debut in a 5–3 win over FC Thun in the 2015–16 Swiss Super League, coming on as a substitute wearing the number 25 shirt. [2]