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Iraq
   
Nickname-
AssociationIraqi Football Association
CoachAdnan Mageed
Most caps?
Top scorerLaith Hussein Shihaib (45)

 
Home colours

 
Away colours

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 resultRound 1, 1986
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances 5 (First in 1972Full details http://www. com/tables/72asch.)
Best resultFourth place, 1976Full details http://www. com/tables/76asch.

The Iraq national football team is the national team of Iraq and is controlled by the Iraqi Football Association . It made one World CupThe Football World Cup is the most important competition in international football (soccer). Organised by Federation Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), the sport's governing body, the World Cup finals tournament is the most widely-viewed and, in 1994The 1994 Football World Cup was held in the USA. It was won by Brazil, who beat Italy 3-2 on penalties, after the game and extra time ended 0-0. The format of the competition stayed the same as in 1990: 24 teams qualified, divided into six groups of four., but lost all three of its games.

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.






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