# Yaseen Musa (Yaasiin Muuse)

> Yaseen Musa (born 1980): Qatari basketball player of Somali descent, 2014 FIBA 3x3 world champion.

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## Who is he?

Yaseen Ismail Musa is a former professional basketball player born on 12 August 1980 who played for the Qatar national team ([Wikipedia, Yaseen Musa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaseen_Musa)). Wikipedia lists him among Qatari people of Somali descent (same source). See [Somalis in Qatar](/en/diaspora/qatar/).

## Career

At the 1999 FIBA World Championship for Junior Men he averaged 25 points a game, the best in the tournament, ahead of future NBA players Andrei Kirilenko and Juan Carlos Navarro ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaseen_Musa)). He played for Qatar at the 2007 and 2009 FIBA Asia Championships and at four Asian Games, winning silver (same source). He played his club basketball for Al Rayyan (same source). In 2014 he was part of the Qatar team that won the FIBA 3x3 World Championships (same source).

## In short

A Qatari basketball player of Somali descent who topped the scoring at a junior world championship and won a 3x3 world title.

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