Polytechnic doctor Musab Al-Qatawneh was born on 5 October 1989 in Al-Karak, Jordan. He played football, handball and basketball for his school team.

In 2007 he came to Romania as a medical student in Timisoara, graduating in 2014. After his residency in orthopedics at the County Hospital, in 2020 he became a doctor at Premiere Hospital and private clinics in the city. He is a specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology (meniscus and ligament operations, fractures, hip and knee prosthesis).

He is married to a Romanian woman from the village of Pădureni in Timisoara and has three children (two boys and a girl). He speaks perfect Romanian and has an extraordinary common sense.

He came to Poli in summer 2017. “I like football a lot, I followed Poli since the Iancu period, I was close to the team, I followed the results”. At one match, he stood in for a colleague as team doctor, and then stayed on permanently to look after the health of the white-violet players.

I asked him why he thinks Jordan lacks the footballing stature of other Arab countries in the Middle East. “Because of the financial potential…”, he replied. His favourite team in his home country is Al-Faisaly Amman, who have won the AFC Cup (one of Asia’s continental competitions) twice. He has not tried to bring any Jordanian players to Poli. In the future, who knows…

Musab followed in the footsteps of Teymoor Ahmadi, the Iranian who came to Poli as a doctor in 1998, with Iosif Rotariu as player-coach, and who worked at the “classic” club, then in the “Iancu era” and at ACS Poli for almost two decades.

Among the white-violet players that Dr. Musab has operated on, we remember Alin Manea (forearm fracture), Dalin Munteanu (two fingers, metacarpal) and, most recently, Bocșan (clavicle fracture).

About the new executive and technical management of the club, he says: “I see a very good interest, with serious ideas, I think they will succeed”.