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

[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


Awards
Preceded by
Mubarak Mustafa
Qatari League top scorers
1994
Succeeded by
Mohammed Salem Al-Enazi
Preceded by
'No Award'
Asian Footballer of the Year
1988
Succeeded by
Kim Joo-Sung
Preceded by
N/A
Arab Nations Cup top scorers
1988
Succeeded by
N/A
Preceded by
Abandoned due to War
Iraq Super League top scorers
1986
Succeeded by
Raheem Hameed