Ahmad Radhi

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Ahmad Radhi
Personal information
Full name	Ahmed Radhi Amaiesh
Date of birth	March 21, 1964 (1964-03-21) (age 44)
Place of birth	Samarra, Iraq
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1982-1985 1985-1989 1989-1993 1993-1994 1997-1999	Al Zawraa Al-Rasheed Al Zawraa Al-Wakra Al Zawraa	? (?) ? (?) ? (?) ? (12) ? (?)
National team2
1983 - 1997	Iraq	73 (42)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of N/A. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of N/A. * Appearances (Goals)

Ahmad Radi Amaiesh (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 October 2007 he was nominated by the opposition Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front to the Council of Representatives of Iraq, replacing Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi, who had resigned to join the insurgency.^[1]

[edit] Achievements

• Chosen in the Asia's Top 10 Players of the Century list by IFFHS. ^[2]
• Top scorer of the Qatari League in 1994
• Asian Footballer of the Year 1988
• Top scorer of the 1988 Arab Nations Cup in 1988
• Top scorer of the Iraq Super League in 1986

[edit] References

1. ^ Soccer star joins parliament, San Diego Union Tribune, 2007-10-05, accessed on 2008-01-06
2. ^ Asia's best Players of the Century

v • d • e Iraq squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup 1 Hammoudi • 2 Ibrahim • 3 Khalil Mohammed • 4 N. Shaker • 5 S. Shaker • 6 Ali Hussein • 7 H. Mohammed • 8 Radhi • 9 Saddam • 10 Saeed • 11 Abdul-Rahim Hamed • 12 Jamal Ali • 13 Karim Mohammed • 14 Gorgis • 15 N. Hashim • 16 Shaker Mahmoud • 17 Abid • 18 I. Mohammed • 19 Qasim • 20 Fatah Nasif • 21 Jassim • 22 Oraibi • Coach: de Macedo

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