In July 2007, Iraq kicked off their 2007 AFC Asian Cup campaign. The squad was made mainly of players that won the 2000 AFC Youth Championship, finished fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games and second at the 2006 Asian Games. Vieira only had two months to prepare his team for the tournament...
A man waves a pistol as residents celebrate the victory of Iraq's soccer team over South Korea during the semi-final of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup soccer tournament, in Baghdad July 25, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) BAGHDAD, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Two suicide car bombings struck Iraqi soccer f...
Residents celebrate the victory of Iraq's soccer team over South Korea during the semi-final of the 2007 AFC Asian Cup soccer tournament, in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, July 25, 2007.[Reuters] Two suicide car bombings struck Iraqi soccer fans taking to the streets to ...
In July 2007, Iraq kicked off their 2007 AFC Asian Cup campaign. The squad was made mainly of players that won the 2000 AFC Youth Championship, finished fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games and second at the 2006 Asian Games. Vieira only had two months to prepare his team for the tournament...
In this article the author discusses the rise in Iraqi nationalism that occurred in 2007, even as the Iraq War continued. Tracing the increase in national feeling to a victory by the Iraqi national soccer team, the author also ascribes the phenomenon to opposition to a U.S. plan to ...
The Iraqi national football team represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association. They won the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Iraqi football reached a peak in the 1970s and 1980s – Iraq qualified for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, and 3 times for the ...
In the 2007 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 2016, playing in all three of Iraq's 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup matches and becoming the ...
I also took the time to go to Chile to write about how former dictator Augusto Pinochet plagiarized his history professor in one of his books while serving as president, and to do a story about a soccer team in Chile, one of the country’s best, started by Palestinian, Christian ...
Define Baghdad, Iraq. Baghdad, Iraq synonyms, Baghdad, Iraq pronunciation, Baghdad, Iraq translation, English dictionary definition of Baghdad, Iraq. or Bag·dad The capital and largest city of Iraq, in the center of the country on the Tigris River. Foun
(Arbil) 3 Al-Rasheed (Baghdad) 1 Duhok (Duhok) Al-Jaish (Baghdad) Al-Mina (Basra) Nafit Al-Wasat (Najaf) Salah-Al-Deen (Tikrit) Some notes on team names: Haris Al-Maliki (Royal Guards) were disbanded in 1956; Kuliya Al-Askariya (Military Academy) had its FA membership withdrawn...