Complete defender Iraqi national team Adam Rashid has completed his transfer to the Slovenian club Maribor to represent it starting from the current 2024-25 season that started in Slovenia.
The Slovenian club announced in a statement on its official website that Adam Rashid will represent Maribor until the summer of 2026.
According to sources, the Iraqi defender joined his new team on a free transfer after terminating his contract with Torino, Italy. Rashid is one of the team’s reinforcements in the summer transfers, along with Frenchman Bradley Mpondo, the Slovenian trio Patrick Katich, Niko Grlić, Ten Cook and Gabonese Morphy Mbina.
Adam Rashid undergoes extensive testing ahead of move to Maribor
Rashid (18 years old) has been attending the Slovenian team’s training since the beginning of last July, where the player underwent several tests and participated in friendly trial matches for the team, as he was under the supervision of the team’s coach, Ante Simmondsa, during this period.
And he succeeded Iraqi defender In convincing coach Simmondza, who had previously stated that Adam Rashid might be with the reserve team or that he might be contracted and then loaned to another team to gain experience, but Rashid, thanks to the levels he has shown during the past period, convinced the coach of his levels to be on the first team roster.
Recently, player Adam Rashid experienced a great shock due to the removal of his name from the list of the Iraqi Olympic team that participated in the Paris 2024 Olympics and the addition of the name of Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya defender Saad Natiq (33 years old) instead of him.
The young Iraqi defender has previously played 12 matches with the Iraqi youth team, including the 2023 Asian Cup and World Cup.
Maribor was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in the Slovenian city of Maribor. The team plays in the Slovenian Premier League and its stadium is called “People’s Park” and has a capacity of 12,994 spectators.
The Slovenian team Maribor has won the Slovenian Premier League title 16 times, and the Slovenian Cup nine times.
With the start of the current season, Maribor played two matches, during which it collected 4 points, after a win and a draw, as it occupies the fifth place in the Slovenian League standings after three rounds, while Maribor will play in the qualifiers for the European Conference League.
Among the most prominent stars that the club includes is the former player of the Italian clubs Atalanta and Palermo, Josip Isić, as well as the Slovenian national team player Max Perisic.
