Almoatasembellah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati (Arabic: المعتصم بالله علي محمد المصراتي; born 6 April 1996), known simply as Al-Musrati, is a Libyan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primeira Liga club Braga and the Libya national team.
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Full name | Almoatasembellah Ali Mohamed Al-Musrati[1] | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1996-04-06) 6 April 1996 (age 26) | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Misrata, Libya[1] | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defensive Midfielder | ||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||
Current team | Braga | ||||||||||||
Number | 8 | ||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
2013–2017 | Al-Ittihad Tripoli | ||||||||||||
2017–2019 | Vitória de Guimarães B | 40 | (3) | ||||||||||
2019–2020 | Vitória de Guimarães | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||
2020 | → Rio Ave (loan) | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||
2020– | Braga | 53 | (4) | ||||||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||||||
2014– | Libya | 40 | (2) | ||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 April 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19 November 2019 |
In January 2017 he signed a three-and-a-half-year deal at Vitória de Guimarães of Portugal's Primeira Liga, on the recommendation of their former player Romano Sion.[2] He began playing for their reserve team in LigaPro, and on 4 March 2018 scored his first goal to equalise in a 1–1 draw away to União.[3]
On 5 August 2019, Al-Musrati made his debut for the first team, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 win at Feirense in the second round of the Taça da Liga.[4] Thirteen days later he made his Primeira Liga debut in a 1–1 home draw with Boavista and was third-place in the vote for the league's best midfielder of the month, behind Bruno Fernandes and Pizzi.[5] On 12 December, he scored his only goal for the first team, equalising in a 3–2 comeback win at Eintracht Frankfurt in the group stage of the UEFA Europa League; his club was already eliminated.[6]
Al-Musrati was loaned to Rio Ave of the same league on 29 January 2020, for the rest of the season.[7] He, Diogo Figueiras and Nuno Santos were sent off on 17 June in a 2–1 home loss to Benfica.[8]
On 31 July 2020, Al-Musrati signed a four-year deal at Braga, joining his former Rio Ave manager Carlos Carvalhal.[9] His first goal was on 26 November, to open a 3–3 home draw with Leicester City in the Europa League group stage;[10] three days later he struck for the first time in the top flight to win at the Estádio Municipal de Braga against Farense.[11] He was voted the league's Player of the Month for February 2021.[12]
Al-Musrati was first called up for Libya at the 2014 African Nations Championship in South Africa, and played all but one game including the penalty shootout win over Ghana in the final.[13][14]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 6 September 2015 | Petro Sport Stadium, New Cairo, Egypt | ![]() | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
2 | 7 October 2017 | Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir, Tunisia | ![]() | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Braga
Libya
S.C. Braga – current squad | |
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