*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 04:59, 17 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:59, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Early in her career, Haidar played for Akhaa Aley.[2] She then joined Safa and played for their U19 team in the 2020–21 Lebanese Women's U19 Football League,[3] before moving into the first team in 2021.[1] With them she took part in and won the 2022 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship. Throughout her time at Safa, she wore number 70.[4][5][6] At the end of the 2021–22 season, Safa dissolved the women's team.[7]
For the 2022–23 season, Haidar joined another Beirut team, BFA, wearing the number 20.[8] In her first two seasons at BFA, Haidar made 33 Lebanese Women's Football League appearances[9] and scored one goal, the team's first in a 10–0 victory over Helium Sports on 25 June 2023.[1] She also played for BFA's U19 team, winning the U19 league.[6] BFA won the senior league for the first time in the 2023–24 season, in a perfect season. Haidar was then made team captain in September 2024[10][11] when Syntia Salha left the club.[12] Described as the pillar and cornerstone of the team,[10][11] and an intelligent player,[13] Haidar is focal in transition from defense to attack;[10] her coach called her "Lebanon's Sergio Busquets".[6]
When the IDF began more intense shelling of Beirut in November 2024,[14] Haidar and her family left their home in Chiyah in the south of Beirut[13][10] to stay in Baakleen, in the mountains outside the city.[14] Haidar had recently been named captain of her football team, and returned to the city regularly to train.[10] On 16 November 2024 the IDF bombed Beirut's suburbs throughout the day.[15] Haidar was at home in Chiyah when an IDF evacuation order was issued, and she left; her father also called her to make sure she received the warning,[15] and she had messaged her mother.[14] Though Haidar left the building, the airstrike was imminent[6] and she was getting on her motorbike when the area was hit. She was hit in the head by shrapnel.[11]
Haidar suffered "severe brain injuries, including multiple skull fractures and brain bleeding."[11] She was taken to a hospital in Hadath that was then hit by an airstrike.[6] She was transferred to the Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, where she underwent surgery to control the bleeding.[13] On 16 November[6] she was placed in an induced coma.[10] She was in a stable condition for several days, before deteriorating on 20 November, when she suffered more bleeding on the brain, which was treated;[13] she was reportedly stable again by 22 November.[6]
A video of Haidar unconscious in the street, showing her injuries and a man screaming nearby, went viral on social media in Lebanon.[10] Other social media responses included further calls for FIFA to suspend Israel from international football in response to their invasions, which have injured multiple footballers.[13] There had been unconfirmed reports on 17 and 18 November that Haidar had fallen into a coma following surgery and then died,[16] with BFA clarifying her condition to the press.[6][15]
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