Ali Haidar (basketball)

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ali Haidar

| image =

| image_size =

| caption =

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 7

| weight_lbs = 240

| league = LBL

| team = Beirut Club

| position = Power forward

| number = 11

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1990|7|20}}

| birth_place = Qana, Lebanon

| nationality = Lebanese / Canadian

| high_school = J.L. Forster Secondary School
(Ahliah School)

| college = Michigan Tech (2009–2013)

| draft_year = 2013

| career_start = 2013

| years1 =2013–2018

| team1 =Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut

| years2 =2018–2019

| team2 =Beirut Club

| years3 =2019–2020

| team3 =Champville SC

| years4 =2019

| team4 = → Saskatchewan Rattlers

| years5 =2019–2020

| team5 = → Al Wehdat Club

| years6 =2020–2022

| team6 = Dynamo Club Lebanon

| years7 = 2022–present

| team7 = Beirut Club

| highlights =

4× Lebanese Basketball League champion (2014–2017)
Jordanian Premier Basketball League champion (2020)

| medaltemplates =

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}}

Mohamed Ali Haidar ({{langx|ar|علي حيدر}}, born in Lebanon on 20 July 1990) is a Lebanese-Canadian basketball player for Beirut Club of the Lebanese Basketball League (LBL).[http://www.michigantechhuskies.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/bios/haidar%20ali00.html Michigan Tech Huskies website: Ali Haidar page]

Career

Haidar born in Qana, Lebanon to Mohammad and Mona Haidar. He has four brothers and two sisters. He immigrated with his family to Canada in 2006, where he studied at J.L. Forster Secondary School in Windsor, Ontario, playing starting 2006–2007 season in the high school's Forster Spartans basketball team.[http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=089e4ec0-3c90-4f83-9e5e-27b8b904f418 Canada.com Haidar takes care picking U.S. school] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523135853/http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=089e4ec0-3c90-4f83-9e5e-27b8b904f418 |date=23 May 2014 }}

Upon graduation from Forster, he was offered a scholarship at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, USA specializing in an engineering double major starting 2010 while playing for the MTU Huskies basketball program playing in the GLIAC (GLIAC) in NCAA Division II.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

=In Lebanon=

The Lebanese Basketball Federation invited Haidar for summer tryouts in June 2011. He was one of 25 players competing for 12 spots on the national team. He had his international debut playing in a regional tournament in Jordan, representing Lebanon.[http://www.mtu.edu/umc/services/pr-news/magazine/winter1112/stories/star-east/ Ian Marks in Michigan Tech Magazine: A Star from the East (Winter 2011)]

Between 2013 and 2018, he played professionally in the Lebanese basketball club Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. In 2018, he moved to play for Beirut Club.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

In the 2021–22 season, he moved to Dynamo Beirut to reach the Final Four and went back to Beirut Club in the 2022–23 season, having the chance to play in Al Wasl Tournament.{{Cite web |title=Haidar, Hayes power Beirut Club in home win over ZobAhan |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/wasl/22-23/westasia/news/haidar-hayes-power-beirut-club-in-home-win-over-zobahan |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=FIBA.basketball |date=22 December 2022 |language=en}}