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This period is known as 'The Dark Era' as Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam Hussein and then-president of IFA, abused his control of Iraqi football and tortured players who played poorly, punishing them by sending them to prison, making them bathe in raw sewage and kick concrete balls, and shaving their heads among many other punishments.
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
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 .
[78] [59] Insurgents have frequently targeted oil pipelines in the village since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, with car bombs, suicide bombings and improvised explosive device (IED) blasts becoming a normal part of life for Hussein. His father, an officer in the Iraqi Army, was killed on duty by an al-Qaeda attack in 2008. [59]
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 ...
Radhi started to make a name for himself after he was forced to switch childhood club Al-Zawraa for new powerhouse Al-Rasheed, the club founded and owned by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday. Alongside fellow legend Adnan Dirjal , Radhi led the club to reaching the 1988–89 Asian Club Championship final, losing to Qatari side Al Sadd on away ...
Soccer Iraq launched on 11 March 2015 with the aim of creating an English-based website covering Iraq's national football team, the Lions of Mesopotamia, [1] as well as the domestic club competitions and the nation's foreign-based players. [2] In 2017, Soccer Iraq assisted the Iraq Football Association (IFA) in the process of verifying the IFA ...