Fadi El Khatib
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Fadi El Khatib (
.Professional career
El Khatib began playing professionally in 1997, aged 17, at
Throughout his career, El Khatib also played for other
National team career
In 1999, El Khatib made his debut for the Lebanon national team at the 1999 ABC Championship; Lebanon reached the quarter-finals and finished in seventh place.[3] At the 2001 ABC Championship, El Khatib led Lebanon to a second-place finish; he was named to the 2001 FIBA Asia All-Star Five.[3] With the runners-up finish, Lebanon qualified to the 2002 FIBA World Championship; despite Lebanon losing in the first round, El Khatib finished the tournament among the top ten scorers, with an average of 17.6 points per game.[3]
At the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship, El Khatib averaged 23.0 points per game, and helped Lebanon to reach the final; once again, Lebanon qualified to the 2006 FIBA World Championship.[3] He scored 35 points in the opener against Venezuela, and 29 in a 74–73 win against France. Despite the two wins, Lebanon fell short of qualifying to the round of 16.[3] El Khatib led Lebanon to a third runners-up finish at the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship; he averaged 28.4 points per game throughout the tournament, but lost to Iran 74–69 in the final.[3]
El Khatib eventually participated with Lebanon at the Asia Championship in 2009 and at the World Championship in 2010. He would not participate for Lebanon until 2017, playing his last national-team games at the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup.[3]
Personal life
In July 2020, El Khatib obtained
Awards and honours
Domestic club
- 11x Lebanese Basketball League champion: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016
- 8x Lebanese Basketball Cup champion: 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- 3x Lebanese Basketball League Best Domestic Player: 2006, 2009, 2010
- 4x Lebanese Basketball League All Tournament Team: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010
- 4x Lebanese Basketball League Player of the year: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
- Lebanese Basketball League Forward of the year: 2007
- Lebanese Basketball League scoring leader: 2010
- Syrian Basketball League regular season champion: 2005
International club
- 4x
- 2x FIBA Asia Champions Cup MVP: 2005, 2011
- 2x FIBA Asia Champions CupAll-Star Team: 2005, 2011
- 3x Arab Club Basketball Championship champion: 1998, 1999, 2010
- Arab Club Basketball Championship All-Star Team: 2010
- Arab Club Basketball Championship Best Domestic Player: 2010
National team
- 3x
- 2x
- FIBA Asia Championship Best Forward: 2005
- FIBA Asia Stankovic Cup winner: 2010
- 2x WABA Championship champion: 2000
- West Asia MVP: 2001, 2002
- Efes Pilsen World Cup 9 Bronze Medal winner: 2010
References
- ^ "Fadi El-Khatib, Lebanon". Player Profiles. Interbasket. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
- ^ "'Lebanese Tiger ' El Khatib cites the good, and bad from the win over Korea". fiba.basketball. 9 August 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Flojo, Enzo (15 June 2020). "Asian Legends Series: Lebanon's Fadi El Khatib". FIBA. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ "فادي الخطيب يعلن اعتزاله كرة السلة نهائيا". arabia.eurosport.com (in Arabic). 25 January 2020. Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ أحوال (4 August 2022). "فادي الخطيب.. العودة إلى "الحكمة"". أحوال ميديا (in Arabic). Retrieved 20 August 2022.
- ^ "Fadi El-Khatib obtains Turkish citizenship by investment". propertyturkey.com. 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Basket-Ball : Le Libanais Jihad Al-Khattib rejoint le Fenerbahce d'Istanbul". aa.com (in French). 21 October 2020.