Ahmed Radhi

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Ahmed Radhi ( Arabic أحمد راضي, DMG Aḥmad Rāḍī ; * March 21, 1964 in Baghdad ; † June 21, 2020 ibid) was an Iraqi soccer player and politician .

Athletic career

Radhi began his sporting career at a few youth sports clubs in the capital, before moving to Iraqi first division club Al-Zawraa in 1982 at the age of 18 . He played for Al-Zawraa until 1985, when he signed a contract with Al-Rasheed, a club founded by Udai Hussein . With Al-Rasheed he was Iraqi champions three times in a row between 1986 and 1989 and won the Iraqi Cup in 1987 and 1988.

In 1989 he went back to his former club Zawraa, 1993-1994 he played briefly at Al-Wakrah SC in Qatar , before he came back to Zawraa and in 1999 ended his active career there. With Al-Zawraa he won the Iraqi championship and the Iraqi cup (1991 and 1993) in 1991 and 1999 .

Outside Iraq, Radhi won the Arab Champions League three times in a row in 1985, 1986 and 1987 and reached the final of the Asian Cup in 1989 , in which Al-Rasheed, however, lost to Al-Sadd from Qatar.

National team

Radhi made his debut in the Iraqi national team on April 28, 1983 in the 2-1 victory over Egypt in Cairo and also scored his first international goal in that game. With the Iraqi team, he was the winner of the Golf Cup in 1984 and 1988 and also took part in the Olympic Games in Seoul . His greatest success was taking part in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where he scored the country's only ever World Cup goal in a 2-1 defeat by Belgium .

In 1988 IFFHS voted him Asia's Footballer of the Year . He played a total of 73 international matches in which he scored 42 goals (behind Hussain Saeed and Laith Hussein Shihab in third place among the top scorers in the country). In 1997 he played his last international match in a 6-1 win over Pakistan .

End of career

After the end of his sporting career, he became a manager at Al-Zawraa and worked for the Iraq Football Association . During the December 15, 2005 election, he joined Sunni Iraqi Unity and supported their election campaign. In July 2007, he entered the Iraqi parliament as the successor to the resigned Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi . Since October 2009 he belonged to the Iraqi national movement.

He died on June 21, 2020 in Baghdad as a result of an illness of COVID-19 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iraqi football great Ahmed Radhi dies after contracting coronavirus . June 21, 2020.

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predecessor Office successor
- Asia's Footballer of the Year
1988 		Kim Joo-sung
personal data
SURNAME Radhi, Ahmed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radhi Amaeish, Ahmed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi soccer player and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 2020
Place of death Baghdad