Jouana Toufic Hamze (Arabic: جوانا توفيق حمزة; born 13 October 1988) is a Lebanese football coach and former player who is the assistant coach of the Lebanon women's national team. She played as a defender for the Lebanon national team.
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Full name | Jouana Toufic Hamze[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 13 October 1988||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Beirut, Lebanon[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender[3] | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Lebanon (assistant coach) | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2007 | Sadaka | ||||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Ansar | ||||||||||||||||
2010–2012 | Sadaka | ||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
2010–2013 | Lebanon | 8+ | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
2022–2023 | Lebanon U18 | ||||||||||||||||
2023 | Lebanon U19 | ||||||||||||||||
2023 | Lebanon U20 | ||||||||||||||||
2023–2024 | Lebanon | ||||||||||||||||
2024– | Lebanon (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Club career
editHamze played for Sadaka in 2007,[4] then moved Ansar and played in 2007–08 and 2008–09.[5] She then returned to Sadaka, playing in 2010–11[6] and 2011–12.[7]
International career
editHamze made her senior debut for Lebanon on 19 October 2010, in a 5–1 defeat to Egypt.[2] She capped during the 2010 Arabia Women's Cup, the 2011 WAFF Women's Championship and the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification.[2]
Managerial career
editHamze was head coach of the Lebanon women's national under-18 team at the 2022 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship,[8] in which she helped Lebanon lift the title after defeating Syria 5–1 in the final.[9] She also coached the under-20 team at the 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup qualification, in which Lebanon qualified to the second round.[10]
On 9 July 2023, Hamze was appointed head coach of Lebanon women's national team.[11] On 18 and 21 July, she helped Lebanon beat Palestine 5–0 and 2–1 in her first two games as Lebanon coach.[12][13] In September 2023, Hamze led Lebanon to win the 2023 SAFF Friendly Tournament in Saudi Arabia.[14] She became assistant coach in 2024.[15]
Personal life
editHer paternal uncle, Salim Hamze,[16] was also an international footballer for Lebanon during the 1990s.[17]
Honours
editManager
editLebanon U18
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Jouana Hamze". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ a b c "Jouana Hamze". FA Lebanon. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ "AFC WOMEN'S ASIAN CUP 2014". AFC. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
- ^ https://al-akhbar.com/Sport/195955
- ^ بطولة لبنان الكروية لسيدات الصداقة للمرة الثانية 2009 [Sadaka win the Lebanese Women's Football League for a second time in 2009]. abdogedeon.com (in Arabic). Al Liwaa. 23 May 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "الدوبليه الرابعة على التوالي لسيدات الصداقة - Malaeeb". Malaeeb.com. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "«الصداقة» بطل لبنان للسنة الخامسة على التوالي". الجمهورية (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "رسالة قوية من مدربة ناشئات لبنان لمنتخبات غرب آسيا". كووورة. 18 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ الكبير, لبنان (30 October 2022). "غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: في المباراة النهائية أظهرنا مستوانا الحقيقي وفزنا بسهولة على سوريا". موقع لبنان الكبير (in Arabic). Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ فواز, محمد (30 October 2022). "غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: في المباراة النهائية أظهرنا مستوانا الحقيقي وفزنا بسهولة على سوريا". موقع لبنان الكبير (in Arabic). Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ Lebanese Football Association [@thelfawomen] (9 July 2023). جوانا حمزة مدربة منتخب سيدات لبنان [Jouana Hamze is the coach of Lebanon women's national team] (in Arabic) – via Instagram.
- ^ Khaled, Nasser (19 July 2023). فوز كبير لسيدات لبنان على فلسطين [A big win for the Lebanese women against Palestine]. Kooora (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 July 2023.
- ^ "لبنان يجدد فوزه على فلسطين وديًا". The LFA. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
- ^ "منتخب لبنان بطلاً للبطولة الدولية للسيدات".
- ^ "معسكر داخلي لمنتخب لبنان للسيدات". The LFA. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ غراند سكور | جوانا حمزة: لولا جهود الجميع إدارة وجهازاً فنيا ولاعبات لما تحقق الانجاز (in Arabic). لبنان الكبير. 30 October 2022. 10:00 minutes in.
- ^ "Salim Hamze". FA Lebanon. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
External links
edit- Jouana Hamze – AFC competition record
- Jouana Hamze at Kooora.com (in Arabic) (archived in English at Goalzz.com)