Abdallah Juma Ally
{{Short description|Tanzanian footballer (born 1976)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Abdallah Juma Ally
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|7|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Tanzania
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| position = Forward
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| years1 = 2002–2004
| clubs1 = Mtibwa Sugar Turiani
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| years2 = 2004
| clubs2 = Simba
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| nationalyears1 = 2002–2003
| nationalteam1 = Tanzania
| nationalcaps1 = 4
| nationalgoals1 = 0
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| years3 = 2004–2005
| years4 = 2005–2010
| clubs3 = Mlandege
| clubs4 = Mtibwa Sugar Turiani
| goals4 = 20
| nationalyears2 = 2003–2007
| nationalteam2 = Zanzibar
| nationalcaps2 = 13
| nationalgoals2 = 9
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Abdallah Juma Ally (born 2 July 1976) is a Tanzanian former footballer who played as a striker for several Tanzanian clubs and also the Tanzania and Zanzibar national team, the latter of which he is their top goalscorer.{{cite web |title=Abdallah Juma Ally |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/6559/Abdallah_Juma_Ally.html |website=National Football Teams}}
He is notable for representing Zanzibar at the FIFI Wild Cup.
Club career
Abdallah Juma Ally began his career at Mtibwa Sugar Turiani in 2002. He joined Simba in 2004 before leaving to join Mlandege during the same season. {{citation needed|date= December 2024}}
He returned to Mtibwa Sugar Turiani in 2005 and retired there in 2010 after scoring twenty goals during a five year spell at the club.
International career
= Tanzania =
Ally made his debut for Tanzania during a 2–0 friendly loss against Uganda on 23 October 2002.{{Cite web |title=Tanzania vs. Uganda 2002-10-23 |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/report/20321/Tanzania_Uganda.html |website=National Football Teams}} He would continue to play for Tanzania until his final cap came as Tanzania were eliminated from 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying after losing 3–0 on aggregate against Kenya.{{Cite web |date=15 November 2003 |title=Kenya - Tanzania |url=http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/preliminaries/preliminary=7381/matches/match=34271/report.html |website=FIFA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109085735/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/preliminaries/preliminary=7381/matches/match=34271/report.html |archive-date=2007-11-09}}
= Zanzibar =
Ally represented Zanzibar at the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 editions of the CECAFA Cup, and also at the FIFI Wild Cup.
He would debut for Zanzibar on 2 December 2003 during a 2–2 draw against Rwanda in their final group stage game of the 2003 CECAFA Cup; he also scored his first two goals during this match.{{cite web |title=East and Central African Championship (CECAFA) |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablese/eastcentrafr.html |website=RSSSF}} His last international cap would come on 18 December 2007 when Zanzibar were eliminated during the 2007 CECAFA Cup quarter-finals.
He ended his international career as Zanzibar's all time top goalscorer with 9 goals.
Career statistics
=International=
:As of match played 18 December 2007.
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year | |||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan="2"|Tanzania
|2002 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | |
| colspan="2"|Total||4||0 | |||
| rowspan="5" |Zanzibar
|2003 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2004 | 4 | 3 | |
| 2005 | 3 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 3 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | |
| colspan="2"|Total||13||9 |
:Scores and results list Zanzibar's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ally goal.
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ List of international goals scored by Abdallah Juma Ally | ||||||
| scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Venue !Cap ! scope="col" |Opponent !scope="col"|Score !scope="col"|Result !scope="col"|Competition !scope="col" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|References}} | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | 2 December 2003 | rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Khartoum Stadium, Khartoum, Sudan
| rowspan="2" |5 | rowspan="2" align=left | {{fb|RWA}} | 1–2 | rowspan="2" | 2–2 | rowspan="2" | 2003 CECAFA Cup |
| 2.
|2–2 | ||||||
| 3.
|11 December 2004 |Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |6 |align=left|{{fb|RWA}} |1–0 |2–4 | rowspan="3" |2004 CECAFA Cup | ||||||
| 4.
| rowspan="2" |13 December 2004 | rowspan="2" |Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | rowspan="2" |7 | rowspan="2" align=left|{{Fb|TAN}} |2–1 | rowspan="2" |4–2 | ||||||
| 5.
|3–2 | ||||||
| 6.
|30 November 2005 |Amahoro Stadium, Kigali, Rwanda |10 |align=left|{{Fb|BDI}} |1–1 |2–1 | ||||||
| 7.
| rowspan="2" |31 May 2006 | rowspan="2" |Millerntor-Stadion, Hamburg, Germany | rowspan="2" |14 | rowspan="2" align=left|{{Fb|Greenland}} |2–2 | rowspan="2" |4–2 | rowspan="2" |FIFI Wild Cup | ||||||
| 8.
|3–2 | ||||||
| 9.
|13 December 2007 |Sheikh Amri Abeid Stadium, Arusha, Tanzania |16 |align=left|{{Fb|SUD}} |2–2 |2–2 |
See also
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ally, Abdallah Juma}}
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Tanzanian men's footballers
Category:Zanzibar men's international footballers
Category:21st-century Tanzanian sportsmen
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