BAGHDAD, June 21 — Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi died Sunday from complications linked to Covid-19, the health ministry said, just hours before he was to be flown for treatment in Jordan. Radhi, 56, scored what remains Iraq’s only World Cup finals goal in 1986 against Belgium. He had been...
This April 23, 2018 AFP file photo shows the campaign poster of Ahmed Radhi, a former Iraqi footballer, hanging in a street in Baghdad. Iraqi football legend . — AFP pic
“Ahmed Radhi passed away wearing the green jersey, which he loved so much that we loved him in it,” wrote Iraqi premier Mustafa al-Kadhemi. He moved with his family to the Jordanian capital Amman but returned to Iraq in 2007 for a career in politics, replacing a member of parliament who defected to join the bloody insurgency raging across the country.
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