Which iraqi football is a left defender

Hussein Ammar. Amjad Attwan. Amir Al-Ammari. Mohammed Ali Aboud. Ali Aboud. Ahmed Fadhil. Hassan Abdul-Karim. Mohanad Jeahze. Jiloan Hamad. Bashar Resan. Ibrahim Bayesh. Mohammed Qasim. Alaa Abdul-Zahra. Ahmed Farhan. Sajad Jassim. Aymen Hussein. Ali Al-Hamadi. And there, I was beaten with an electric cable 50 to 70 times every morning by his personal executioners.

I retired early because of such treatment, at the top of my game, where I was even shot by Baathist forces on my left foot — the golden foot, as some called it. No one asked for my rights as an athlete who represented the national team and Iraqi clubs, nor was I given any sporting entitlements.

Every player in the national believed and felt destined that a time in Al Radwaniya was in the offing. And any player or person who entered Al Radwaniya entered the door to hell. The intimidation and authority of the Hussein family came into play once again in , when they took control of a substandard club called Salahudden, and achieved league success a year later through intimidating referees and opponent players.

But what he was more associated with was his founding of Al Rasheed in With such benefits and authority at hand, Al Rasheed became the best club in the country, ahead of more well-established names such as Al Shorta and Al Quwa Al Jawiya. They even managed to reach the final of the Asian Champions League in Such results and dominance also came with allegations of match-fixing and deliberate intimidation of opposing players and referees.

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Al-Kuwait Kaifan. Tariq , Humam. Al-Ismaily SC. Al-Saedi , Hussein Ali. Raad played in the Olympics and World Cup in Mexico, where he played in the two games against Paraguay and Belgium. He is currently the president of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

One of the country's greatest ever players, Mahmoud captained the team for ten straight years and became an icon of Asian football.

He also played for a number of clubs including teams in Iraq, UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, breaking numerous records including becoming the first player in Qatar to score two hat-tricks in the same game.

Mahmoud's first official international goal was an equaliser in the 89th minute of the final of the WAFF Championship, which Iraq then went on to win in extra-time. Three years later, Mahmoud scored in the final of the West Asian Games to lead his team to another tournament win, before becoming the national team captain a year later. In , Mahmoud achieved the best honour of his career, leading his country to win the AFC Asian Cup, their first such success, scoring the winning goal in the final and also winning the Golden Boot and Most Valuable Player awards at the tournament.

In the Ballon d'Or, Mahmoud finished in 29th place, becoming the only Iraqi player ever to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or. He continued to feature prominently for the national team until , playing in all three of Iraq's FIFA Confederations Cup matches and becoming the most-capped player in Iraq's history as well as their third-highest goalscorer ever.

He is also the only player in history to score in four different and consecutive AFC Asian Cup tournaments, with one goal in , four in , one in and two in