Frans Putros

Frans Dhia Jirjis Haddad (born 14 July 1993), known as Frans Putros (Arabic: فرانس بطرس), is a professional footballer who plays as a right back or a centre back for Thai club Port and the Iraq national team.

Frans Putros

Personal information
Full name	Frans Dhia Jirjis Haddad^[1]
Date of birth	(1993-07-14) 14 July 1993 (age 29)
Place of birth	Aarhus, Denmark^[1]
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)^[2]
Position(s)	Right back, centre back
Club information
Current team	Port
Number	21
Youth career
0000–2004	Skovbakken
2004–2012	AGF
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2013	AGF	3	(0)
2013–2014	→ Silkeborg (loan)	16	(0)
2014–2015	Silkeborg	12	(0)
2015–2018	Fredericia	58	(13)
2018–2020	Hobro	38	(1)
2020–2022	Viborg	58	(1)
2022–	Port	14	(0)
International career^‡
2012–2013	Denmark U20	3	(0)
2013–2014	Denmark U21	1	(0)
2018–	Iraq	8	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 September 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 December 2021

Born in Denmark, Putros is of Assyrian ethnicity from Iraq; he represented his native country internationally at youth level, before switching allegiance to Iraq, making his debut in 2018.

Club career

Putros began his youth career at IK Skovbakken, and was picked up by AGF in 2004, where he played a number of years in the youth and reserve teams for the club. He made his Danish Superliga debut on 16 November 2012, playing the full 90 minutes in a match against FC Nordsjælland.

In fall 2013, Putros was loaned to Silkeborg IF, where he was reunited with the former AGF assistant coach Jesper Sørensen, who had become the head coach of Silkeborg IF. After a successful stay in Silkeborg, Putros signed a permanent contract at the end of 2013.^[3] Putros joined Fredericia in 2015;^[4] he decided to run out his contract at the end of 2017 to sign a two-year deal with Hobro IK.^[5]

Putros joined Hobro IK in August 2017.^[6] He left the club at the end of 2019, where his contract expired. On 11 January 2020, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Viborg FF.^[7]

International career

Putros was born in Denmark and is of Assyrian ethnicity from Iraq. Putros made his debut for the Iraq national team in a friendly 3–0 win over Palestine on 4 August 2018.^[8] He was part of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup squad.^[9]

Honours

Viborg

• Danish 1st Division: 2020–21^[10]

See also

• List of Iraq international footballers

References

1. "Frans Putros". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
2. "FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2021: List of players: Iraq" (PDF). FIFA. 4 December 2021. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
3. Frans Dhia Putros stays in SIF (in Danish) 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, News article from Silkeborgif.com, accessed on January 7, 2014.
4. Fredericia snupper Putros, bold.dk, 18 January 2016
5. bold.dk. "Hobro henter Frans Dhia Putros til vinter". bold.dk. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
6. Hobro henter Frans Dhia Putros til vinter‚ bold.dk, 10 August 2017
7. VFF henter Frans Putros, vff.dk, 11 January 2020
8. "Palestine vs. Iraq - Football Match Line-Ups - August 4, 2018 - ESPN". ESPN.com.
9. "Every AFC Asian Cup 2019 Squad Revealed - Final 23-man lists | Goal.com".
10. "Viborg vinder 1. division - TV 2". sport.tv2.dk (in Danish). 26 May 2021.

External links

• Frans Putros at Soccerway
• Danish national team profile (in Danish)
• Danish Superliga stats (in Danish)