Fast Facts: A technical player that has a strong work rate and makes good decisions…Emerged as a sophomore in 2003 as a player that adds to NJCU on both sides of the ball, offensively and defensively...Will see significant action at midfielder in 2004, and may start at the holding midfielder slot…Will take a lot of NJCU’s corner kicks…Named to the New Jersey Athletic Conference’s Honorable Mention All-Academic team for the 2003-04 academic year with a 3.46 GPA…Has three goals, two assists, and eight career points.
2003: Played in 14 games (616 minutes) eight starts…Started final six games of the season…Tallied one goal and one assist for three points…17 shots, three SOG…(09/10): Scored on a blast from 25-yards out in a 7-0 win over John Jay College…(09/20): Played 79 minutes in a starting role…(10/25): Started and played a season-high 97 minutes in a 2-1 overtime loss to Rowan University…(11/04): Contributed an assist on NJCU’s only goal in a 2-1 loss to Rowan in the NJAC Quarterfinals.
2002: Tallied two goals and one assist for five points, while playing in 315 minutes in 11 games, starting twice…Tied for ninth on the team in scoring…Attempted 10 shots (five SOG)…(09/14): Score first career goal and two points in 56 minutes as part of 14-1 rout of Hunter College, a game in which NJCU set a single-game school record for scoring…(09/21): Made first career start and played 58 minutes in 4-0 win over Mount St. Mary College…(10/12): Played a season-high 70 minutes against SUNY-Farmingdale…(10/21): Posted three points, with a goal and his first career assists in 9-0 shutout of Medgar Evers College.
High School: A June 24, 2002 graduate of Bayonne High School in Bayonne, NJ…A member of the National Honor Society who graduated with a 91 average…Played four seasons of varsity soccer at Bayonne High School under coaches Connie Gallagher and Dennis Degnen…Also competed in track for two seasons with coach Rich Treonze, and was on the swim team for one season…Was a First-Team All-County pick at midfield by the coaches and First-Team All-Conference choice for the Bees…Served as team captain…Was tabbed by the Jersey Journal for it’s Second Team…An Honorable Mention All-State selection as a midfielder…Named Bayonne’s Offensive Player of the Year as a senior…Played in the 2002 Hudson County All-Star game…Team reached state semifinals…A 2001 Third-Team All-Hudson County choice of the Star-Ledger.
Personal: Born June 23, 1984 in Jersey City, NJ…Full name is Omar Mohamed Ali… Parents are Mahmoud Mohammed Ali and Eman Mohamed Ali…has three siblings, sisters Marwa, 22 and Mona, 17, and brother Hesham, 10… Declared major at NJCU is Business Administration-Accounting…Lists his father as his hero…Right-footed.
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Hobbies/interest: Playing soccer, cooking
NJCU Class: Economics
Hero/Idol: His father, Mahmoud Mohammed Ali
Movie: The Shining, Malcolm X
Food: His mom’s cooking
