Nasser Al-Johar

Nasser Hamad Al-Johar is a Saudi Arabian former football coach and former player.

Club career

Al-Johar played for Al Nassr FC.

Managerial career

Al-Johar coached the Saudi Arabia national team for both the 2000 AFC Asian Cup and 2002 FIFA World Cup, though he was fired for failing to take the team to a Cup win that year.
When coach Hélio dos Anjos was fired in June 2008, Al-Johar was hired to replace him for the rest of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. Al-Johar resigned from coaching The Green Falcons in February 2009 after the team lost to North Korea in the AFC fourth round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification; he was replaced with José Peseiro. The Saudi Arabia Football Federation announced the "reclusive" Al-Johar would continue to support the team as a "technical advisor".
After losing to the Syria national team on 9 January 2011, it was announced that Al-Johar would replace Peseiro for the remainder of the 2011 AFC Asian Cup; after two further losses, the perennial fix-it man for Saudi Arabia was again sacked, less than two weeks after taking the helm.