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Al-Douri was made the King of Clubs in the famous most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, making him among the top 8 "most wanted" figures in Saddam Hussein's regime. [ 38 ] At the time of the invasion of Iraq , al-Douri, along with Saddam and Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan , were among the three surviving plotters who had brought the Ba'ath Party ...
Paralysed, he died two years later on 9 March 2003. [88] [89] 26 June 2003 Marc-Vivien Foé (CMR) 28 Cameroon: Collapsed while playing in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final between against Colombia, and died shortly afterward in hospital. An autopsy later revealed the cause of death was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 25 January 2004
Edison David, born in Iraq, Iraqi Assyrian football player who played for Iraq and Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the 1950s and 1960s; Kadhem Sharif, Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter; Hana Shezifi (born 1943), Israeli Olympic runner; Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, Iraqi chess player and former president of Iraqi Chess Federation. Thamer Yousif ...
Uday Saddam Hussein [1] [2] (Arabic: عدي صدام حسين; 18 June 1964 – 22 July 2003) was an Iraqi politician, military commander and businessman, and the elder son of Saddam Hussein. He held numerous positions as a sports chairman, military officer and businessman, and was the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee , Iraq Football ...
Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq: Executed on 30 December 2006: 2. Qusay Hussein: Director of the SSO: Killed on 22 July 2003 3. Uday Hussein: Commander of Fedayeen Saddam: Killed on 22 July 2003 4. Abid Hamid Mahmud: Presidential Secretary: Executed on 7 June 2012 5. Ali Hassan al-Majid: Director of IIS: Executed on 25 January 2010 6. Izzat ...
In the contemporary era, especially during the reign of Saddam Hussein, the two countries had bad relations and fought the Iran–Iraq War for eight years. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] Iraqis have considered any matches against Iran as a must-win encounter and are known to treat it differently from any other football matches. [ 86 ]
This is a list of Iraq international footballers, comprising players to have represented the Iraq national football team since its formation in 1957. [ 1 ] This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
With Iraq he won 2 Arab Cups, 1 Pan-Arab Games & a Gulf Cup, while he also did represent Iraq in the Olympics in 1988, scoring a goal each in games against Zambia and Guatemala. In 1988, he was voted Asian player of the year and 9th best Asian player of the century in 1999.