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| Association | Iraqi Football Association | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Adnan Mageed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Most caps | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top scorer | Laith Hussein Shihaib (45) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| First International Morocco 3 - 3 Iraq ( Lebanon; October 19, 1957) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Largest win Iraq 10 - 1 Bahrain ( Baghdad, Iraq; April 5, 1966) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Worst defeat Turkey 7 - 1 Iraq ( Turkey; December 6, 1959) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 1 (First in 1986) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Round 1, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AFC Asian Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appearances | 5 (First in 1972Full details http://www. com/tables/72asch.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best result | Fourth place, 1976Full details http://www. com/tables/76asch.
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During the reign of Saddam HusseinSaddm Hussein 'Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Hussein also spelled Husayn and Hussain Arabic: ; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. A rising star in the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular Arab nationalism, economic mod his son, Uday HusseinUday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (or Odai ( June 18, 1964 July 22, 2003) was the eldest son of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his first wife, who was also his first cousin, Sajida Talfah. Although this kind of marriage may be regarded as incestuous in s, was in charge of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and, by extension, its soccer team. Uday routinely torturedTorture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as a means of cruelty, intimidation, punishment, for the extraction of a confession or information or simply for the entertainment of the perpetrator. Signatories of the Third Geneva Conve Iraqi soccer players for poor performances.
With the Hussains out of power, the Iraqi team had a re-surgrance in 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co. Its Under-23 team qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics and then represented the country in the Asian Cup, where they surprisingly made the quarterfinals. But the surprises didn't end there. At the Olympics, Iraq upset Portugal, Costa Rica, and Australia on their way to fourth place in the tournament.
During the Olympics, US president George W. Bush used the Iraqi team in television ads supporting his re-election, to the disdain of most Iraqi players.