 He began playing football when he was ten years old in school, where he was coached by his physical education teacher Ismail, who helped him to enrolled to the Al Ain club's youth academy.However, his future as a professional player was gone to end, at age 12, when his father get him out of the academy, Because of its influences on his grade in school.but he kept playing in the youth academy without his father knowledge for a year encouraged by his mother.