title: Assaf Khalifa
text: # Assaf Khalifa
  
  Assaf Khalifa (Arabic: عساف خليفة; born 1968) is a Syrian former footballer who played as a forward.
  
  ## Club career
  
  Khalifa was the first foreign player from outside the former USSR in the Russian Football Premier League when he joined FC Zhemchuzhina Sochi in 1994.
  
  ## Managerial career
  
  After retirement as a player, he went to coaching in Syria: Al-Nidal SC and Al-Wahda SC, Lebanon: Al-Mabarrah, Salam Zgharta and Al Nabi Sheet, Jordan: That Ras Club, and Oman: Oman Club.
  
  ## Honours
  
  Individual
  
  * Lebanese Premier League top goalscorer: 1995–96
  