Bader Al-Mutawa - International Career

International Career

Al-Mutawa's first major competition on international level was the Gulf Cup 2003, hosted by Kuwait. The home side finished sixth with only five points from six matches (only Yemen, the newcomer to the Gulf Cup finished the tournament with less points, sparing Kuwait the embarrassment of ending up at the bottom of the table of the gulf cup for the first time in their history). Al-Mutwa scored once in Kuwait's only victory of the tournament against Yemen (4-0).

Al-Mutawa played in the 2004 Gulf Cup, scoring a goal in the 87th minute against Saudi Arabia in Kuwait's opening match. Al-Mutawa excelled in this tournament, forming a striker partnership with Kuwait captain and star striker Bashar Abdullah. They managed to score five goals between them. This partnership was short lived as Bashar retired from international football shortly after the tournament and Kuwait was eliminated in the semi-finals by Qatar after topping Group B with two victories and one draw with Bahrain.

Al-Mutawa continued being a regular in the Kuwaiti national football team, but managed to do very little as his country failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, after a 0-3 loss to Saudi Arabia, and the 2007 AFC Asian Cup finals after a 1-2 loss to Bahrain in a match where Kuwait only needed a draw to qualify.

Al-Mutawa's latest contribution to his country was an equalizing goal against Yemen in the 2007 Gulf Cup, and another equalizing goal against the UAE in the final group match which saw Kuwait exit the Gulf Cup for the first time in their history without winning a single game. In this tournament, Al-Mutwa played his usual second striker position behind Al Tadamon's striker and top goal scorer of the Kuwaiti league Fahad al Rashidi. The pair failed to produce the desired partnership, and Kuwait ended their Gulf Cup campaign poorly. in 2009 Gulf Cup which was in Oman, Bader Al Mutawa had an excellent performance and Kuwait got to the semi finals but lost against Saudi Arabia.

He played Mutawa in the ranks of the Blue 12 caps in 2003 and the number has doubled to 22 caps in 2004, say the number to 13 caps in 2005 and after 8 games only in 2006, while she was disappointed the player in 2007 when played 4 games only after the failure of the «blue» to qualify for the finals of Asia.

He returned Al-Mutawa to shine and lead the attack «Blue» again in 9 games in 2008 and doubled the number to 18 games in 2009 and finally 14 games in 2010 to be the match of Zambia last friendly in 2010, the game No. 99 in the history of player Mutawa.

Al-Mutawa and play with the «blue» in a lot of tournaments, where he participated in five cups of GCC in 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009 and finally 2010, and participated with them in the 2004 Asian Cup and now in 2011.

Bader Al Mutawa and played their home games in front of 36 international teams where he played one game before the teams in Armenia, Côte d'Ivoire, Finland, Hong Kong, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Portugal, Slovakia, Taiwan, Tajikistan and Zambia.

Al-Mutawa and played 9 games against the UAE 8 Qatar, 7 games in front of Bahrain, while playing 6 games against teams in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and participated in four games against teams in Australia, Iraq, Singapore and Yemen.

Fought with Al-Mutawa 3 games against teams with Blue Iran, Jordan, South Korea, North Korea, and finally two games against Azerbaijan, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, China, Malaysia, Palestine and Uzbekistan.

And Badr Al Mutawa to record 35 goals internationally in its history, where began his career goal tally in their first international against Singapore in the September 27, 2003, and succeeded Mutawa in the registration of the first two goals in the goal against Palestine in Asian Cup qualifier on October 8, 2003, and managed international striker Al-Mutawa Super trick to score in the range of the Indian team on their game in hand November 13, 2010. Red card and a single At the time, which suffers from the attackers of the roughness and tackles strong side defenders have done a player doing well in the scoring and offset warning and fear of the defenders of the other teams, where he earned during which Player 9 yellow cards in the history card and sent off and one was in the match blue with Egypt's friendly on May 27, 2005