Mohammad Yosuf Kargar is an Afghan former football player and manager who is president of the Afghanistan Football Federation. He formerly coached the Afghanistan national team.

Career

Kargar's family set up Afghanistan's first ski resort, and he became the national champion in 1978 at the age of 16. He stopped skiing due to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the Afghanistan national team. He coached Afghan youth teams after becoming the senior manager of the Afghanistan national team in 2001. His biggest achievement is leading the national football team to the SAFF Cup trophy in 2013.

Attack in January 2015

Kargar was stabbed near his residence in Kabul on 10 January 2015. He sustained a head injury and a knife wound in his back.