Ahmed Radhi

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Ahmad Radhi
Ahmed Radhi Amaiesh
Personal information
Date of birth	March 21, 1964
Place of birth	Baghdad, Iraq
Nickname	Radhi
Position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Retired
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1985-1989 1982-1985 1989-1993 1993-1994 1997-1999	Al-Rasheed Al Zawraa Al Zawraa Al-Wakra Al Zawraa	? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (12) ? (?)
National team**
1983 - 1997	Iraq	73 (42)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of N/A. ** National team caps and goals correct as of N/A.

Ahmad Radhi (Arabic: احمد راضي‎) is a former Iraqi football player and a current politician. Widely regarded as Iraq's best player of all-time, Radhi scored the only Iraqi Goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup against Belgium. He was voted 1988 Asian Footballer of the Year.

Radhi's international career came to a bitter end in 1997; when he failed to save Iraq from a shocking first-round elimination in the 1998 World Cup Asian qualifiers. Two years later, Radhi ended his career as a footballer in 1999, after he led local side Al-Zawraa to another league title.

In May of 2004, Radhi was arrested on allegations that he and others had thrown hand grenades in the house of long time teammate and the current Iraqi Football Association President Hussein Saeed.^[1][2] Prior to the incident, Radhi was fired from his IFA job by Hussein Saeed. In Iraq's national election of December 15, 2005, he supported the Sunni group of Iraqi Islamic Party (slate 618.)

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31765&highlight=Ahmed+Radhi
2. ^ http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31844

Preceded by: 'No Award'

Asian Footballer of the Year 1988

Succeeded by: Kim Joo-Sung