Adam Docker (footballer)


Adam Luke Docker is an English-Pakistani former footballer who is now a restaurateur. In 2007, he was called up for Pakistan, where he used the name of Adam Karim.

Club career

Born to a Pakistani father and English mother, Karim began his professional football career with Bury, later joining Altrincham for a few months but then joined Bangor City in the 2005–06 season. He was released at the end of the 2006–07 season despite being a fairly impressive performer. He joined Chorley, but in September 2007 linked up again with his former Bangor manager Clayton Blackmore when he joined Porthmadog. At the same time he was playing for Rochdale club Asia F.C.
He parted company with Porthmadog in 2008. In late 2009 he was playing for Canaries FC in the Lancashire Evening Post Sunday football league and captained them to victory in the Asian Community Cup final held at Stamford Bridge.
In February 2010, he joined Salford City but after a short period asked to be released and subsequently joined FC United of Manchester. He played one match for the club, coming on as a substitute.
He later joined Chadderton in November 2010, scoring in the one and only match he played for the club. He then joined Ashton United in November 2010., playing 3 games in February 2011.

International Call-Up

In October 2007 Docker was called up by Pakistan. He was an unused substitute in a 2010 FIFA World Cup group play-off match against Iraq

Personal life

He runs a restaurant in Manchester.
In July 2017 he married Russian TV presenter Olga Ushakova in Cyprus, and they now raise her daughters from a previous relationship together as well as their daughter who was born in April 2018.