Tariq Lutfi
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Umar Farooq Tariq Lutfi | ||
Date of birth | September 20, 1951 | ||
Place of birth | Karachi, Pakistan | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Pakistan Airlines | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Pakistan Airlines | |||
International career | |||
Pakistan | |||
Managerial career | |||
Pakistan Airlines | |||
2003–2004 | Pakistan | ||
2005 | Pakistan | ||
2010 | Pakistan women | ||
2011 | Pakistan (caretaker) | ||
2011–2017 |
Khan Research Laboratories | ||
2017–2019 |
Sui Southern Gas | ||
2019-2021 | Pakistan | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Umar Farooq Tariq Lutfi (born 20 September 1951) is a
Tariq has the distinction of being the first-ever
Pakistan Airlines
As a player and coach of Pakistan Airlines, Lutfi has led the team to become National Champions a record nine times in the history of Pakistani club football.[5]
Managerial career
Pakistan women football team
Pakistan Football Federation's President Faisal Saleh Hayat had appointed Tariq Lutfi as coach of the Pakistan Women football team in 2010. Tariq coached the team for the first SAFF Women Championship in Bangladesh where the team reached the semi-finals for the first time in history.[6]
Pakistan national team
Tariq Lutfi served as head coach of the Pakistan national team several times from 1985 to 2004, and, under his leadership, Pakistan had gold medal success in the 1989 South Asian Games,[5] as well as in the 1991 South Asian Games and the 2004 South Asian Games.[1] He returned a caretaker coach in 2011 but was replaced by Zaviša Milosavljević.
Khan Research Laboratories
Lutfi was appointed as the
Sui Southern Gas
In 2017, Lutfi was appointed as the head coach for second division side
Honours
Tariq Lutfi is widely considered to be the most qualified and successful coach in Pakistan football.[9] Shazia Hasan of Dawn describes Tariq as "arguably the most-qualified football official in Pakistan".[4] He has several coaching qualifications through Bisham Abbey, Bert Trautmann, Holger Osieck, etc. and has the honour of attending several FIFA and Olympic courses.[5] Tariq has the grand distinction of being the first-ever FIFA Coaching Instructor from South Asia.[5] In 2019, he had the honour of winning the Pakistan Sports Awards for the Best Coach in Pakistan.
Manager
Khan Research Laboratories
- 2013-14
- 2016
Sui Southern Gas
- Pakistan Football Federation League: 2017-18
References
- ^ a b Lutfi appointed Pakistan coach. The News International.
- ^ Liaquat Ali loses hand in Swat shelling. The News International.
- ^ Sincere efforts required to boost women’s soccer: FIFA coach. Daily Dawn.
- ^ a b Controversies will hurt Pakistan soccer: Lutfi. Daily Dawn.
- ^ a b c d Shazia Hasan. Coach upbeat to bring improvement: Lutfi given charge of football team. Daily Dawn.
- ^ New football coach focuses on Malaysia. The Express Tribune.
- ^ "KRL ease to title". paktribune.com. 5 January 2012. Archived from the original on January 20, 2012.
- ^ Wasim, Ubaid (November 24, 2017). "Lutfi-led revolution brings style, swagger and silverware to SSGC [Dawn]". footballpakistan. FPDC. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
- ^ Shazia Hasan. Absence of qualified coach hurts as PFF looks the other way. Daily Dawn. "Meanwhile, the most experienced coaches of all here, Tariq Lutfi, was overlooked on the pretense of his not having the required qualifications from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) even though the man has served as coaching instructor for both FIFA and AFC and is confident that his qualifications from England, Germany, Brazil, etc., are enough to get him an honorary certification from AFC to do the needful. The PFF only saw him worthy of coaching the raw national girls’ team, which he helped reach the semi-finals in the recently-concluded inaugural SAFF Women Football Championship."