The Iraqi national football team ( arab. منتخب العراق لكرة الدم ) represents Iraq in international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Association of Iraq . Winner of the Asian Cup ( 2007 ).
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| Nickname | Lions of Mesopotamia Asood Al Rafidain (اسود الرافدين) | ||
| Confederation | AFC | ||
| Federation | Iraq Football Association | ||
| Main trainer |  Srecko Katanec | ||
| Captain | Eunice Mahmoud | ||
| The greatest number of games | Hussain Said (126) | ||
| Best bombardier | Hussain Said (63) | ||
| FIFA rating | 77 ▼ 1 (June 14, 2019) [1] | ||
| Highest | 39 (October 2004) | ||
| Lower | 139 (July 1996) | ||
| FIFA code | IRQ | ||
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| The first game | |||
 Morocco 3: 3 Iraq  ( Lebanon ; October 19 , 1957 ) | |||
| Biggest win | |||
 Iraq 10: 1 Bahrain  ( Baghdad , Iraq ; April 5 , 1966 ) | |||
| Biggest defeat | |||
 GDR 5: 0 Iraq ( Jena , GDR ; July 26 , 1970 ) | |||
| World Championship | |||
| Participation | 1 ( first time in 1986 ) | ||
| Progress | 1 round ( 1986 ) | ||
| Asian Cup | |||
| Participation | 9 ( first in 1972 ) | ||
| Progress | Champion ( 2007 ) | ||
Content
History
The heyday of Iraqi football came in the 1970s and 1980s . The national team of Iraq qualified for the final tournament of the 1986 World Cup , and also participated in the Olympic Games three times: in Moscow , Los Angeles and Seoul . Also, Iraqi footballers won in 1982 in the Asian Games football tournament , won the Arab Nations Cup four times, and in 1985, the second Iraqi national team won the Pan-Arab Games . In the Asian Cup, Iraq finished fourth in 1976 and did not participate in this tournament until 1996 .
During the reign of Saddam Hussein , the head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee and, concurrently, the curator of the national football team, was the son of Saddam, Uday Hussein . Under Udea, the team was often motivated by threats to break the legs of players, skipping training could be punished with imprisonment, and in case of defeat, players could be whipped with an electric cable or even redeemed in sewage [2] . After the Persian Gulf War, Iraq was excluded from participation in the Asian Games and most of the Arab football competitions, but then continued to participate in the qualifying tournament for the 1994 World Cup. By 1996, the Iraqi national team was ranked 139 in the FIFA ranking , the lowest in its history. Nevertheless, the Iraqi team sometimes achieved serious results in individual matches: on October 28, 1993, the Iraqi team played a draw in Doha with the Japanese team with a score of 2: 2, scoring a goal during the second-half extra time and leaving the Japanese without a ticket to the world championship .
Despite the war in Iraq , the football team continued to participate in international tournaments, with good results. In 2004, the Iraqi national team reached the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup in football (with the same result the team competed in the Asian Cups in 1996 and 2000 ) and then qualified to participate in the 2004 Summer Olympics . In Athens, Iraqi footballers defeated the Olympic teams of Portugal , Costa Rica and Australia , and eventually became the fourth, losing in the match for the Italian national team - 0: 1; In addition, the Iraqi national team was awarded the FIFA prize for fair play . In late 2004, the team was recognized by the Asian Football Confederation as the “team of the year”. In 2005, the Iraqi national team won gold medals at the West Asian Games . In 2006, the Olympic team of Iraq won silver medals at the Asian Games . In 2007, the Iraqi national team won the Asian Cup in football and was again recognized as the team of the year AFC , the best Arab team of the year according to the authoritative publication Al-Ahram , and also the best team of the year according to World Soccer Magazine . [3] The team was also nominated for the Prince of Asturias Humanitarian Award. [4] As a result of winning the Asian Cup, the Iraqi national team took part in the 2009 Confederations Cup , held in South Africa , where the team could not overcome the group stage.
Performances at international tournaments
World Championships
- From 1958 to 1970 - did not qualify
- 1974 - did not qualify
- 1978 - took the application
- 1982 - did not qualify
- 1986 - group stage
- From 1990 to 2018 - did not qualify
Confederation Cup
- From 1992 to 2005 - did not participate
- 2009 - group stage
- From 2013 to 2017 - did not participate
Olympics
- From 1960 to 1976 - did not take part
- 1980 - quarter finals
- 1984 - group stage
- 1988 - group stage
- 1992 - did not take part
- 1996 - did not qualify
- 2000 - did not qualify
- 2004 - 4th place
- From 2008 to 2012 - did not qualify
- 2016 - group stage
Asian Cup
- From 1956 to 1968 - did not take part
- 1972 - group stage
- 1976 - 1/2 finals
- From 1980 to 1992 - did not take part
- 1996 - quarter finals
- 2000 - quarter finals
- 2004 - quarterfinal
- 2007 - Champion
- 2011 - quarter finals
- 2015 - 4th place
- 2019 - 1/8 final
Asian Games
- From 1951 to 1970 - did not take part
- 1974 - 2nd group stage
- 1978 - 4th place
- 1982 - the champion
- 1986 - quarter finals
- From 1990 to 2002 - excluded from participation
- 2006 - 2nd place
- 2010 - did not take part
Composition
The following players were called to the national team by the head coach Srecko Katanec to participate in the matches of the Asian Cup 2019 , which will be held in the UAE from January 5 to February 1, 2019 .
- Games and goals are as of January 8, 2019:
| No | Position | Player | Date of birth / age | Matches | Goals | Club | ||
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| one | Vr | Jalal Hassan | May 18, 1991 (28 years old) | 41 | 0 | Al-Zawra'ah | ||
| 12 | Vr | Mohammed Gassid | December 10, 1986 (32 years) | 69 | 0 | Al-quwa | ||
| 20 | Vr | Mohammed Hamid | January 24, 1993 (26 years old) | 24 | 0 | Al short | ||
| 2 | Def | Ahmad Ibrahim | February 25, 1992 (27 years) | 81 | 3 | Al-arabi | ||
| 3 | Def | Frans Dia Putros | July 14, 1993 (26 years old) | four | 0 | Hobro | ||
| four | Def | Saad Natik | March 19, 1994 (25 years) | 12 | 0 | Al-quwa | ||
| five | Def | Ali Fayez | September 9, 1994 (24 years) | 23 | 3 | Al-Khariiyat | ||
| 6 | Def | Ali Adnan Kazim | December 19, 1993 (25 years) | 63 | four | Vancouver Whitecaps | ||
| 17 | Def | Alaa Mhavi | June 3, 1996 (23 years) | 22 | 0 | Al short | ||
| 22 | Def | Rebin Sulaka | April 12, 1992 (27 years) | sixteen | 0 | Al Khor | ||
| 23 | Def | Walid Salem | January 5, 1992 (27 years) | 49 | one | Al short | ||
| 7 | PZ | Safaa hadi | October 14, 1998 (20 years) | 7 | 0 | Al-Zawra'ah | ||
| eight | PZ | Osama Rashid | January 17, 1992 (27 years) | 22 | 0 | Santa clara | ||
| 9 | PZ | Ahmed Yasin | April 22, 1991 (28 years old) | 60 | 6 | Al Khor | ||
| eleven | PZ | Humam Tarik | February 10, 1996 (23 years) | 51 | 3 | Esteglyal | ||
| 13 | PZ | Bashar Rasan | December 22, 1996 (22 years) | 21 | 0 | Persepolis | ||
| 14 | PZ | Amjad Attwan | March 12, 1997 (22 years) | 29 | 0 | Al short | ||
| 15 | PZ | Ali Husni | May 23, 1994 (25 years) | 25 | 3 | Al-quwa | ||
| 21 | PZ | Hussein Ali | November 29, 1996 (22 years) | 20 | one | Qatar SC | ||
| ten | Nap | Mohanad ali | June 20, 2000 (19 years old) | 12 | 7 | Al short | ||
| 18 | Nap | Aymen Hussein | March 22, 1996 (23 years) | 23 | one | Sfaxen | ||
| nineteen | Nap | Mohammed Dawood | November 22, 2000 (18 years old) | 2 | 0 | Al Naft | ||
| 21 | Nap | Alaa Abbas | July 27, 1997 (22 years) | one | 0 | Al-Zawra'ah | ||
Notes
- ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking . FIFA (June 14, 2019). The appeal date is June 14, 2019.
- ↑ Theage.com.au - The torturing
- ↑ Worldsoccer.com - 2007 World team of the year (the inaccessible link is history )
- ↑ Kooora.com - Iraq nominated for the 2007 prince of Asturias award
Links
- Iraqi national football team on the FIFA website
- football-iraq.net (inaccessible link - history )
- iraq-football.net
- freewebs.com/Iraqfc
- http://iraqsport.wordpress.com Hassanein Mubarak's blog on Iraqi football
- iraqfc.webs.com
- National & International Iraqi Information of Soccer (inaccessible reference - history )
- All matches of the Iraqi national team since 1957 (Rus.)