Salem Al-Dawsari

Salem Al-Dawsari is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Al-Hilal and captains both the club and the Saudi Arabia national team. ¹ He is best known worldwide for scoring the winning goal against Argentina at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. ¹ Neither article read for this record states his religion, and Wikidata carries no religion value for him, so his data record leaves his faith as unknown. ¹²³

Al-Dawsari was born on 19 August 1991 in Jeddah; the Arabic article adds that his father worked as a teacher, that he is the third son in a family from Al-Aflaj, and that the family moved to Riyadh when he was in the sixth grade. ¹² Wikidata gives Riyadh as his birthplace, which neither article supports. ³ He joined Al-Hilal at nineteen and made his senior debut in 2010. ¹

Apart from a loan at Villarreal in Spain in 2018, under the agreement between the Saudi federation and La Liga, in which he made one league appearance, Al-Dawsari has spent his entire career at Al-Hilal, whom he now captains. ¹

Al-Dawsari played at the 2018 World Cup and scored at the 2022 tournament in Qatar; on 22 November 2022 his second-half goal beat Argentina 2–1 in one of the World Cup's greatest upsets. ¹ His goal against Mexico later in the tournament was his third at World Cups, equalling Sami Al-Jaber's Saudi record. ¹

The sources read for this record do not state Al-Dawsari's religion. The English article's early and personal life section covers his birth, family and schooling and contains no statement of his religion. ¹ The Arabic article likewise makes no statement of his religion. ² Wikidata carries no religion value for him. ³ Saudi Arabia's Hanbali tradition is a national milieu rather than a personal attestation, so the data record leaves his faith as unknown.